#blackartists — Public Fediverse posts
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By Trinidadian-American actor/dancer/musician/director/choreographer/artist Geoffrey Holder (1930-2014), portrait of his wife, actress/choreographer/dancer Carmen de Lavallade, 1976, oil on canvas, 61 × 40 ½ inches (framed). #arthistory #blackhistory #blackartists #blackart #blackartist #painting #oilpainting
From James Fuentes Gallery: “The artist’s oeuvre demonstrates a deep interest in representing the totality of black life, registered here in compositions that move from the quiet intimacy of bedrooms and parlors to the lively energy encountered in city streets and nightclubs. Anchored in portraiture, at times Holder’s images are also steeped in religious iconography and a bold reverence for nature—consummately rendered in such a way that they appear at once contemporary, historical, and thus timeless…
Holder’s attunement to beauty imbued much of his portraiture with a mysterious quality—likely amplified by the fact that most of his figures were painted from imagination rather than life. Holder engaged the body as if it were a paintbrush or pen; his choreography resembled movements like brushstrokes and, in turn, his paintings reflected an intimate physical sensibility. For Holder, painting provided fertile terrain for his astonishing experimentations in style, representation, and expression. To this day, Holder’s work remains as contemporary as when it was made.”
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By Trinidadian-American actor/dancer/musician/director/choreographer/artist Geoffrey Holder (1930-2014), portrait of his wife, actress/choreographer/dancer Carmen de Lavallade, 1976, oil on canvas, 61 × 40 ½ inches (framed). #arthistory #blackhistory #blackartists #blackart #blackartist #painting #oilpainting
From James Fuentes Gallery: “The artist’s oeuvre demonstrates a deep interest in representing the totality of black life, registered here in compositions that move from the quiet intimacy of bedrooms and parlors to the lively energy encountered in city streets and nightclubs. Anchored in portraiture, at times Holder’s images are also steeped in religious iconography and a bold reverence for nature—consummately rendered in such a way that they appear at once contemporary, historical, and thus timeless…
Holder’s attunement to beauty imbued much of his portraiture with a mysterious quality—likely amplified by the fact that most of his figures were painted from imagination rather than life. Holder engaged the body as if it were a paintbrush or pen; his choreography resembled movements like brushstrokes and, in turn, his paintings reflected an intimate physical sensibility. For Holder, painting provided fertile terrain for his astonishing experimentations in style, representation, and expression. To this day, Holder’s work remains as contemporary as when it was made.”
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Tammy photographs one of the mixed media sculptures in the current "Sharif Bey: Homecoming" Show at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. #andywarhol #andywarholmuseum #theandywarholmuseum #thewarhol #thewarholmuseum #artist #artists #arting #makingart #artwork #artworks #sculpture #sculptures #sharifbey #sharifbeyhomecoming #homecoming #mixedmedia #pittsburgh #pittsburghart #vacation #vacations #holiday #holidays #vacationday #blackartist #blackartists #city #citylife #photography
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Tammy photographs one of the mixed media sculptures in the current "Sharif Bey: Homecoming" Show at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. #andywarhol #andywarholmuseum #theandywarholmuseum #thewarhol #thewarholmuseum #artist #artists #arting #makingart #artwork #artworks #sculpture #sculptures #sharifbey #sharifbeyhomecoming #homecoming #mixedmedia #pittsburgh #pittsburghart #vacation #vacations #holiday #holidays #vacationday #blackartist #blackartists #city #citylife #photography
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#BlackArtists Cotilda Memorial #CallForArtists
“The memorial will be developed through a collaborative process that will engage the community founded by the Clotilda survivors & other formerly enslaved people: historic #Africatown & the expansive diaspora”
In the artists app ur asked to share a subject connection. Paid, project budget 2mil
Love the community incl! U can also send “inspiration” incl photos & stories -Unsure if paidhttps://theclotildamemorial.info/call-for-artists/
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#BlackArtists Cotilda Memorial #CallForArtists
“The memorial will be developed through a collaborative process that will engage the community founded by the Clotilda survivors & other formerly enslaved people: historic #Africatown & the expansive diaspora”
In the artists app ur asked to share a subject connection. Paid, project budget 2mil
Love the community incl! U can also send “inspiration” incl photos & stories -Unsure if paidhttps://theclotildamemorial.info/call-for-artists/
#BlackDiaspora #Alabama #CommunityArt -
By Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe (born in Accra, Ghana; now lives & works in Portland, Oregon), “Akwete," 2021, oil on canvas, 40 × 30 inches (101.6x76.2 cm), Rubell Museum, Miami, ©️ Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe. #art #blackart #blackartist #blackartists
More info on the artist in ALT.
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By Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe (born in Accra, Ghana; now lives & works in Portland, Oregon), “Akwete," 2021, oil on canvas, 40 × 30 inches (101.6x76.2 cm), Rubell Museum, Miami, ©️ Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe. #art #blackart #blackartist #blackartists
More info on the artist in ALT.
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By African-American artist Charles White (1918–1979), detail & the full work, Homage to Sterling Brown, 1972, oil on canvas, full work: 40 × 60 in. (101.6 × 152.4 cm), Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin. The closeup is a personal photo. #blackartist #blackartists #art #arthistory
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By African-American artist Charles White (1918–1979), detail & the full work, Homage to Sterling Brown, 1972, oil on canvas, full work: 40 × 60 in. (101.6 × 152.4 cm), Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin. The closeup is a personal photo. #blackartist #blackartists #art #arthistory
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By African American artist Romare Bearden (1911−1988), Guitar Magic, 1986, collage & watercolor on board, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC. © 2025 Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society. #art #blackart #blackartist #blackartists #collage
From the Bearden Foundation: ‘Bearden takes us backstage to the glamour, grit, and grace of Black performance. Bearden understood that jazz wasn’t just sound. It was a repository of memory—a form of Black historical consciousness. The improvisational nature of jazz mirrored the adaptability required of Black Americans, who had to continuously remake identity and community in the face of change and displacement. Much of Bearden’s art functions the same way. His collages are full of migrating trains, front porches, street corners, and jukeboxes—images loaded with the weight of history. In these works, jazz becomes a stand-in for cultural endurance. He once said, “The artist has to be something like a whale, swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.” Bearden devoured both visual and musical traditions, then recombined them in ways that felt utterly new.’
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By African American artist Romare Bearden (1911−1988), Guitar Magic, 1986, collage & watercolor on board, The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC. © 2025 Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society. #art #blackart #blackartist #blackartists #collage
From the Bearden Foundation: ‘Bearden takes us backstage to the glamour, grit, and grace of Black performance. Bearden understood that jazz wasn’t just sound. It was a repository of memory—a form of Black historical consciousness. The improvisational nature of jazz mirrored the adaptability required of Black Americans, who had to continuously remake identity and community in the face of change and displacement. Much of Bearden’s art functions the same way. His collages are full of migrating trains, front porches, street corners, and jukeboxes—images loaded with the weight of history. In these works, jazz becomes a stand-in for cultural endurance. He once said, “The artist has to be something like a whale, swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.” Bearden devoured both visual and musical traditions, then recombined them in ways that felt utterly new.’
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An article about the art presented at the new Obama Presidential Center. Quote: “When the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) opens on June 19, the 19.3-acre campus, located in Chicago’s Jackson Park, will feature an arts program on a scale to rival many contemporary art institutions.” #blackart #blackartists #art #obama
https://www.artbasel.com/stories/obama-presidential-center-art-institutions-us
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An article about the art presented at the new Obama Presidential Center. Quote: “When the Obama Presidential Center (OPC) opens on June 19, the 19.3-acre campus, located in Chicago’s Jackson Park, will feature an arts program on a scale to rival many contemporary art institutions.” #blackart #blackartists #art #obama
https://www.artbasel.com/stories/obama-presidential-center-art-institutions-us
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"Angelica Peale Robinson," Moses Williams, 1802-05.
Williams (c. 1770 - c. 1830) was a formerly enslaved Black silhouette artist active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Williams' parents were acquired by artist Charles Willson Peale, who later freed them, and Moses was raised along with Peale's children in his very artistic household. Some reports claim Williams was mixed-race and could pass, leaving unanswered questions about his parents.
Williams grew up to be a successful silhouette artist, and became one of few Black men in Philadelphia to own property when he bought his own house He married a former Peale servant and fathered four children, but further details of his family are unknown.
I love silhouettes, and the detail work on this is exquisite when your realize this is black paper cut with scissors and perhaps with detail cut with a knife.
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
#Art #MosesWilliams #Silhouette #BlackArtists #BlackHistory #PortraitMonday
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"Angelica Peale Robinson," Moses Williams, 1802-05.
Williams (c. 1770 - c. 1830) was a formerly enslaved Black silhouette artist active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Williams' parents were acquired by artist Charles Willson Peale, who later freed them, and Moses was raised along with Peale's children in his very artistic household. Some reports claim Williams was mixed-race and could pass, leaving unanswered questions about his parents.
Williams grew up to be a successful silhouette artist, and became one of few Black men in Philadelphia to own property when he bought his own house He married a former Peale servant and fathered four children, but further details of his family are unknown.
I love silhouettes, and the detail work on this is exquisite when your realize this is black paper cut with scissors and perhaps with detail cut with a knife.
Happy Portrait Monday!
From the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
#Art #MosesWilliams #Silhouette #BlackArtists #BlackHistory #PortraitMonday
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By African-American artist Laura Wheeler Waring (1877-1948), After Sunday Service, ca. 1940, oil on Canvas, 30 x 14 1/2 inches (76.2 x 36.8 cm), collection of the Petrucci Family Foundation. #arthistory #art #blackartists #blackart #womanartist #womenartists
From The Art Story: “With Edmonia Lewis, Meta Vaux Warrick, and Augusta Savage, Waring is one of the foremost Black American female artists of the first half of the twentieth century. Taking her stylistic lead from the likes of Monet, Manet, Corot and Cézanne, Waring emerged, with Aaron Douglass and Beauford Delaney, as one of the most influential portrait painters associated with the Harlem Renaissance, the influential movement in African American literary, artistic, and cultural history that thrived between 1918 and the late 1930s. Challenging racial stereotypes, she built her reputation on portraits of prominent African Americans which she executed with consummate skill and imagination. Waring is equally respected for her life-long dedication to the advancement of Black culture and history through her role as director of arts education programs at America's oldest Black teaching institutions.”
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By African-American artist Laura Wheeler Waring (1877-1948), After Sunday Service, ca. 1940, oil on Canvas, 30 x 14 1/2 inches (76.2 x 36.8 cm), collection of the Petrucci Family Foundation. #arthistory #art #blackartists #blackart #womanartist #womenartists
From The Art Story: “With Edmonia Lewis, Meta Vaux Warrick, and Augusta Savage, Waring is one of the foremost Black American female artists of the first half of the twentieth century. Taking her stylistic lead from the likes of Monet, Manet, Corot and Cézanne, Waring emerged, with Aaron Douglass and Beauford Delaney, as one of the most influential portrait painters associated with the Harlem Renaissance, the influential movement in African American literary, artistic, and cultural history that thrived between 1918 and the late 1930s. Challenging racial stereotypes, she built her reputation on portraits of prominent African Americans which she executed with consummate skill and imagination. Waring is equally respected for her life-long dedication to the advancement of Black culture and history through her role as director of arts education programs at America's oldest Black teaching institutions.”
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Your art history post for today: by African-American artist Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948), Woman with Bouquet, ca. 1940, oil on canvas, Brooklyn Museum. #arthistory #blackartists #blackartist #blackart #womanartist #womenartists
From the museum: “With hand on hip and confident bearing, this woman is self-assured and elegant. She was probably from the Philadelphia area, where the artist Laura Wheeler Waring lived and worked. Like Waring’s other portraits of sophisticated or dignified working-class African Americans, this painting countered the many racial stereotypes that were prevalent at the time. Waring’s work, with its strong color palette and energetic brushwork, flourished during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, a period of great African American artistic and cultural production.”
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Your art history post for today: by African-American artist Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948), Woman with Bouquet, ca. 1940, oil on canvas, Brooklyn Museum. #arthistory #blackartists #blackartist #blackart #womanartist #womenartists
From the museum: “With hand on hip and confident bearing, this woman is self-assured and elegant. She was probably from the Philadelphia area, where the artist Laura Wheeler Waring lived and worked. Like Waring’s other portraits of sophisticated or dignified working-class African Americans, this painting countered the many racial stereotypes that were prevalent at the time. Waring’s work, with its strong color palette and energetic brushwork, flourished during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, a period of great African American artistic and cultural production.”
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By Nigerian artist Wole Lagunju (born 1966), Black Girl V (Ibori), 75 x 57.5 inches, oil on canvas, 2025, ©️ Wole Lagunju. #art #blackartist #blackartists #AfricanArt #africanartists #africanartist
From Montague Contemporary: “Wole Lagunju practices a visually stunning form of Onaism, wherein he appropriates Western cultural artifacts and combines them with Yoruba cultural artifacts, notably Gelede masks, to challenge the audience to consider how we often look at culture through a Western lens.
The Gelede masquerade is a performance celebrating motherhood, fertility, and femininity - and combining these themes with Western cultural icons, he evolves our understanding of the role of Yoruba culture - and broadly African art - to reframe our perspective. Sampling from a wide variety of cultural iconography across history - from Dutch Golden to Elizabethan to fifties Americana to Nigerian adiré batik - Lagunju’s paintings are both fashionable but also imbued with layers of inspiration and meaning.
Lagunju’s cultural references, mined from the eras of colonization and decolonization of the African continent critique the racial and social structures of the 19th century whilst evoking commentaries on power, femininity and womanhood.
Wole Lagunju is a 1986 graduate of Fine arts and graphic design at the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. Lagunju has exhibited widely in Nigeria, United States, Europe, and the Caribbean.
His works are included in various private and public art collections including the Denver Art Museum, St Louis Art Museum, the Toledo Art Museum, The Virginia Museum of Fine Art (promised), the World Bank, the Norval Foundation, The United States Art in Embassy Collection in Nigeria, the Africa First Collection, the Ashley Longshore Collection, the Mack Collection, the Glasser Collection, the Chinn Collection, amongst others.” -
By Nigerian artist Wole Lagunju (born 1966), Black Girl V (Ibori), 75 x 57.5 inches, oil on canvas, 2025, ©️ Wole Lagunju. #art #blackartist #blackartists #AfricanArt #africanartists #africanartist
From Montague Contemporary: “Wole Lagunju practices a visually stunning form of Onaism, wherein he appropriates Western cultural artifacts and combines them with Yoruba cultural artifacts, notably Gelede masks, to challenge the audience to consider how we often look at culture through a Western lens.
The Gelede masquerade is a performance celebrating motherhood, fertility, and femininity - and combining these themes with Western cultural icons, he evolves our understanding of the role of Yoruba culture - and broadly African art - to reframe our perspective. Sampling from a wide variety of cultural iconography across history - from Dutch Golden to Elizabethan to fifties Americana to Nigerian adiré batik - Lagunju’s paintings are both fashionable but also imbued with layers of inspiration and meaning.
Lagunju’s cultural references, mined from the eras of colonization and decolonization of the African continent critique the racial and social structures of the 19th century whilst evoking commentaries on power, femininity and womanhood.
Wole Lagunju is a 1986 graduate of Fine arts and graphic design at the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. Lagunju has exhibited widely in Nigeria, United States, Europe, and the Caribbean.
His works are included in various private and public art collections including the Denver Art Museum, St Louis Art Museum, the Toledo Art Museum, The Virginia Museum of Fine Art (promised), the World Bank, the Norval Foundation, The United States Art in Embassy Collection in Nigeria, the Africa First Collection, the Ashley Longshore Collection, the Mack Collection, the Glasser Collection, the Chinn Collection, amongst others.” -
You're in luck! Join us Wednesdays in June for the Website Workshop! 🌐 Each week, we'll cover a different aspect of website creation: planning, design, and creation -- all using #opensource #FOSS software like #Penpot and #Publii.
Learn more and register at https://www.candide.media/website-workshop
#workshop #portfolio #BIPOCartists #BIPOCart #IndigenousArtists #IndigenousArt #BlackArt #BlackArtists
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You're in luck! Join us Wednesdays in June for the Website Workshop! 🌐 Each week, we'll cover a different aspect of website creation: planning, design, and creation -- all using #opensource #FOSS software like #Penpot and #Publii.
Learn more and register at https://www.candide.media/website-workshop
#workshop #portfolio #BIPOCartists #BIPOCart #IndigenousArtists #IndigenousArt #BlackArt #BlackArtists
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By African-American artist Charles Ethan Porter (1847-1923), Pink and Red Roses in Clear Vase, ca. 1880, watercolor, 13 5/8 × 10 in. (34.6 × 25.4 cm), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. #art #blackart #blackartists #painting #oilpainting #blackhistory
From the museum: “Charles Ethan Porter has often been left out of the history books, but his contributions to American art deserve recognition. A contemporary of sculptor Edmonia Lewis, Porter is considered the first known professional Black artist to focus on still lifes. His works, featuring delicate floral arrangements and fruit, built on earlier American still life traditions with incredible detail and realism.
After taking drawing lessons as a child and studying painting in high school, Porter was accepted to the National Academy of Design in 1869. He is believed to be the first Black student to attend the premier art school. Aware of the racial barriers in the art world, Porter remained determined to showcase the skill and talent of Black artists.”
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By African-American artist Charles Ethan Porter (1847-1923), Pink and Red Roses in Clear Vase, ca. 1880, watercolor, 13 5/8 × 10 in. (34.6 × 25.4 cm), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. #art #blackart #blackartists #painting #oilpainting #blackhistory
From the museum: “Charles Ethan Porter has often been left out of the history books, but his contributions to American art deserve recognition. A contemporary of sculptor Edmonia Lewis, Porter is considered the first known professional Black artist to focus on still lifes. His works, featuring delicate floral arrangements and fruit, built on earlier American still life traditions with incredible detail and realism.
After taking drawing lessons as a child and studying painting in high school, Porter was accepted to the National Academy of Design in 1869. He is believed to be the first Black student to attend the premier art school. Aware of the racial barriers in the art world, Porter remained determined to showcase the skill and talent of Black artists.”
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By Kehinde Wiley (born 1977), “Shantavia Beale II,” 2012, oil on canvas, 60x48 inches, private collection. #blackart #blackartist #blackartists #oilpainting #painting
From the Saint Louis Art Museum: “Kehinde Wiley’s vibrant paintings actively engage with the traditions of European art. In his work, Wiley replaces historical depictions of white figures with images of contemporary African Americans, Africans, and people of the African diaspora. His work is widely recognized for calling attention to significant absences and erasures in Western art history, exposing the lack of representation of black individuals in figurative painting.”
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By Kehinde Wiley (born 1977), “Shantavia Beale II,” 2012, oil on canvas, 60x48 inches, private collection. #blackart #blackartist #blackartists #oilpainting #painting
From the Saint Louis Art Museum: “Kehinde Wiley’s vibrant paintings actively engage with the traditions of European art. In his work, Wiley replaces historical depictions of white figures with images of contemporary African Americans, Africans, and people of the African diaspora. His work is widely recognized for calling attention to significant absences and erasures in Western art history, exposing the lack of representation of black individuals in figurative painting.”
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Your art history post for today: by African-American artist Charles Ethan Porter (1847–1923), Floral Still Life, ca. 1880-1890, oil on canvas, 16 1/8 × 20 3/8 × 13/16 inches (41 × 51.8 × 2 cm), Detroit Institute of Arts. #ArtHistory #blackart #blackartists #blackartist #BlackHistory
Information on the artist from the National Gallery of Art: ‘In 1881 Porter decided to travel abroad to continue his development as an artist…
Less than two years into his time in France, Porter’s money ran out. He wrote to Mark Twain, asking him for help. His letters to the writer are the only known first-person accounts from Porter. On April 4, 1883, he wrote:
Now I am aware that there are a goodly number of my Hartford friends and others who are anxious to see how the colored artist will make out, but this is not the motive which impresses me. There is something of more importance. The colored people—my people—as a race I am interested in, and my success will only add to others who have already shown wherein they are capable the same as other men.
Conscious of his place in an art world dominated by white men, Porter was eager to show what he, and other Black artists, could do.’
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Your art history post for today: by African-American artist Charles Ethan Porter (1847–1923), Floral Still Life, ca. 1880-1890, oil on canvas, 16 1/8 × 20 3/8 × 13/16 inches (41 × 51.8 × 2 cm), Detroit Institute of Arts. #ArtHistory #blackart #blackartists #blackartist #BlackHistory
Information on the artist from the National Gallery of Art: ‘In 1881 Porter decided to travel abroad to continue his development as an artist…
Less than two years into his time in France, Porter’s money ran out. He wrote to Mark Twain, asking him for help. His letters to the writer are the only known first-person accounts from Porter. On April 4, 1883, he wrote:
Now I am aware that there are a goodly number of my Hartford friends and others who are anxious to see how the colored artist will make out, but this is not the motive which impresses me. There is something of more importance. The colored people—my people—as a race I am interested in, and my success will only add to others who have already shown wherein they are capable the same as other men.
Conscious of his place in an art world dominated by white men, Porter was eager to show what he, and other Black artists, could do.’
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"Untitled," Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1883.
American-Canadian painter Bannister (1828-1901) was a free-born black man who became a significant figure in African-American intellectual circles of his time, as well as being a prominent abolitionist.
He was a member of the group called the American Barbizon School, which focused mainly on peaceful, pastoral landscapes painted from the life. This style fell out of favor late in his life, and by the time he passed away he was largely forgotten. He had significant financial issues when he passed, and some noted with a bit of bitterness that after his death he was the subject of a memorial exhibition and other notoriety that he should have had while alive.
In the 60s, his work was rediscovered and reappraised, and he's now viewed as one of the great Black American artists.
From the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
#Art #EdwardMitchellBannister #AmericanBarbizon #LandscapePainting #BlackHistory #BlackArtists
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"Untitled," Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1883.
American-Canadian painter Bannister (1828-1901) was a free-born black man who became a significant figure in African-American intellectual circles of his time, as well as being a prominent abolitionist.
He was a member of the group called the American Barbizon School, which focused mainly on peaceful, pastoral landscapes painted from the life. This style fell out of favor late in his life, and by the time he passed away he was largely forgotten. He had significant financial issues when he passed, and some noted with a bit of bitterness that after his death he was the subject of a memorial exhibition and other notoriety that he should have had while alive.
In the 60s, his work was rediscovered and reappraised, and he's now viewed as one of the great Black American artists.
From the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.
#Art #EdwardMitchellBannister #AmericanBarbizon #LandscapePainting #BlackHistory #BlackArtists
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@jayarts__, Black Royalty, shared the image below.
@handsomeazze, Black Royalty, replied:
The original sugar shack painting is owned by #EddieMurphy.
https://www.blackartdepot.com/products/sugar-shack-by-ernie-barnes
It was painted by a former NFL player #erniebarnes
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#blackcreativesmatter #blackartists #blacksports #blackmastodon
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@jayarts__, Black Royalty, shared the image below.
@handsomeazze, Black Royalty, replied:
The original sugar shack painting is owned by #EddieMurphy.
https://www.blackartdepot.com/products/sugar-shack-by-ernie-barnes
It was painted by a former NFL player #erniebarnes
No ALT TEXT bc the information in the post completely explains it.
#blackcreativesmatter #blackartists #blacksports #blackmastodon
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I've been experimenting with #Krita on my laptop lately. 🎨
The OG sketch of Cu-sensei that I drew in my physical sketchbook is like 6 months old by now. 🙇🏾♀️
#WIP #FeileaCanvas #BlackArtists #VChill #DigitalArt #Art #CreativeToots #VStreamer #IndieVTuber #ENVTuber #VArtist #LGBTuber #AutisticVTubers
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@loveshutterbug, Black Royalty, shared the text and images below.
Back when my daughter, Charlotte Adventure, was about 3 years old, I did a photo series of my daughter portraying important Black [Women] through history.
For a toddler, she ATE THIS UP! Here she is as the great #SojournerTruth, #MadamCJWalker, and #RosaParks
#blackwomen #92percent #blackhistory #blackartists #blackphotographers #blackmastodon
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@loveshutterbug, Black Royalty, shared the text and images below.
Back when my daughter, Charlotte Adventure, was about 3 years old, I did a photo series of my daughter portraying important Black [Women] through history.
For a toddler, she ATE THIS UP! Here she is as the great #SojournerTruth, #MadamCJWalker, and #RosaParks
#blackwomen #92percent #blackhistory #blackartists #blackphotographers #blackmastodon
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#WMPG honors #BlackHistoryMonth
"WMPG recognizes Black History Month with special programming throughout the month of February, highlighting the voices, music, history, and lived experiences of Black artists, activists, and storytellers.
Tune in to hear programs that celebrate Black creativity and resilience across genres and generations, from music that shaped movements to conversations that deepen our understanding of the past and present."
Segments include:
#MarshaPJohnson, #RobertLewis, #EarthaKitt, #MalcomX, #AlvinAiley, #BobGreen, #ChadwickBoseman, #DukeEllington, #LewisLatimer, #AudreLord, #ATribeCalledQuest, #OtisRedding, #NelsonMandela, #GarzaCullorsTometi, #LeslieOdomJr, #NinaSimone, #AudraMcDonald #BelHooks, #Beyonce, #FlorencePrice, #JamesBaldwin, #MuhammadAli, #ScottJoplin, #GraceVenuzaRogers, #BobTheDragQueen, #GordonParks, #KobeBryant, #WEBDubois, #BarackObama, #AudreLorde, #Lizzo, #KatherineJohnson, #ClaudetteColvin, #RhiannonGiddens, #TaranaBurke, #TeresaKachindamoto, #ShirleyChisholm, #ThurgoodMarshall, #HarrietTubman, #JohnBrownRusswurm, #StevieWonder, #LeadBelly, #MaryMcleodBethune, #ShirleyChisolm, #LeonardCummings, #MaeJemison, #BadBrains, #CornelWest, #MaconBollingAllen, #SpikeLee, #BeverlyGlennCopeland, #AngelaDavis, #SojournerTruth, #HankAaron, #BillieHoliday, #GeraldTalbot, #TrevorNoah, #JosephineBaker, #JackieRobinson, #ArethaFranklin, #ToniMorrison, #RobertLewis, #IndigoArtsListen:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-honors-black-history-month/#BlackHistory #BlackArtists #BlackMusicians #BlackActivists #CommunityRadio #CollegeRadio
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#WMPG honors #BlackHistoryMonth
"WMPG recognizes Black History Month with special programming throughout the month of February, highlighting the voices, music, history, and lived experiences of Black artists, activists, and storytellers.
Tune in to hear programs that celebrate Black creativity and resilience across genres and generations, from music that shaped movements to conversations that deepen our understanding of the past and present."
Segments include:
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"Portrait of the Artist's Mother," Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1897.
Tanner (1859-1937) was the first Black American artist to win international fame and acclaim, & they were well-deserved.
The son of an AME bishop, Tanner was born & raised in Pittsburgh. He received artistic education at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he was trained by Thomas Eakins, & worked with Robert Henri, a founder of the Ashcan School of painting, as well as others, who all remained his lifelong friends.
Finding racism and prejudice at home in the US, Tanner moved to Europe where he found acceptance, & where he lived the rest of his life, except for a few visits home.
Sarah Elizabeth Tanner (1840-1914) was born in Winchester, VA, but details of her early life are unclear; she may have been born to free people, or born into slavery and escaped via the Underground Railroad. She did become a respected missionary and religious worker, and raised seven children who all became successes in one way or another.
The portrait seems a riff on Whistler's famous painting of his mother, but here Tanner presents a warmer tone, although to me she looks sad.
Happy Portrait Monday, and Happy Black History Month!
#Art #HenryOssawaTanner #PortraitMonday #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackArtists #WomenInArt #AmericanRealism
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"Portrait of the Artist's Mother," Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1897.
Tanner (1859-1937) was the first Black American artist to win international fame and acclaim, & they were well-deserved.
The son of an AME bishop, Tanner was born & raised in Pittsburgh. He received artistic education at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he was trained by Thomas Eakins, & worked with Robert Henri, a founder of the Ashcan School of painting, as well as others, who all remained his lifelong friends.
Finding racism and prejudice at home in the US, Tanner moved to Europe where he found acceptance, & where he lived the rest of his life, except for a few visits home.
Sarah Elizabeth Tanner (1840-1914) was born in Winchester, VA, but details of her early life are unclear; she may have been born to free people, or born into slavery and escaped via the Underground Railroad. She did become a respected missionary and religious worker, and raised seven children who all became successes in one way or another.
The portrait seems a riff on Whistler's famous painting of his mother, but here Tanner presents a warmer tone, although to me she looks sad.
Happy Portrait Monday, and Happy Black History Month!
#Art #HenryOssawaTanner #PortraitMonday #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackArtists #WomenInArt #AmericanRealism
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By African-American artist Charles White (1918-1979), "Awaken from the Unknowing," 1961, compressed charcoal and brown and gray vine charcoal with scratching out, blending, and erasing, 81.9 x 145.4 x 4.4 cm (32 1/4 x 57 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches), the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin. #arthistory #blackartists #BlackArt #BlackHistoryMonth More info in ALT.
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By African-American artist Charles White (1918-1979), "Awaken from the Unknowing," 1961, compressed charcoal and brown and gray vine charcoal with scratching out, blending, and erasing, 81.9 x 145.4 x 4.4 cm (32 1/4 x 57 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches), the Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin. #arthistory #blackartists #BlackArt #BlackHistoryMonth More info in ALT.
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Visit our newly redesigned modern galleries, and you'll find a sculpture by John Rhoden, part of a gift of several works by this important artist. Read on to find out more about how this gift came to pass...
https://georgiamuseum.org/museum-receives-sculptures-by-john-rhoden/
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Visit our newly redesigned modern galleries, and you'll find a sculpture by John Rhoden, part of a gift of several works by this important artist. Read on to find out more about how this gift came to pass...
https://georgiamuseum.org/museum-receives-sculptures-by-john-rhoden/
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"Country Doctor (Night Call)," Horace Pippin, 1935.
I've talked about Pippin (1888-1946) before; he was a self-taught Black American artist who took up art as a sort of therapy after being injured in WWI. He painted scenes of everyday Black American life, and what he lacked in formal training, he made up for with passion, depth, a remarkable eye for design, and a flair for storytelling and depicting people's lives.
Here we have a scene in a wooded area in the midst of a snowstorm....but a man is slowly leading a horse, pulling a wagon, through the storm. It's not just a mere depiction of a winter scene, but a tribute to the resilience and dedication of a rural doctor, trudging through the storm to someone in need.
Pippin's most popular work are his depictions of Black life, many drawn from his childhood. He also did religious paintings and some historical paintings, mostly of his WWI experiences, but also a noted depiction of John Brown going to his execution, based on descriptions from his grandmother, who witnessed it. I find his work delightful.
From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
#Art #HoracePippin #BlackArtists #Primitive #SelfTaught #OutsiderArt #BlackHistory #AmericanArt
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"Country Doctor (Night Call)," Horace Pippin, 1935.
I've talked about Pippin (1888-1946) before; he was a self-taught Black American artist who took up art as a sort of therapy after being injured in WWI. He painted scenes of everyday Black American life, and what he lacked in formal training, he made up for with passion, depth, a remarkable eye for design, and a flair for storytelling and depicting people's lives.
Here we have a scene in a wooded area in the midst of a snowstorm....but a man is slowly leading a horse, pulling a wagon, through the storm. It's not just a mere depiction of a winter scene, but a tribute to the resilience and dedication of a rural doctor, trudging through the storm to someone in need.
Pippin's most popular work are his depictions of Black life, many drawn from his childhood. He also did religious paintings and some historical paintings, mostly of his WWI experiences, but also a noted depiction of John Brown going to his execution, based on descriptions from his grandmother, who witnessed it. I find his work delightful.
From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
#Art #HoracePippin #BlackArtists #Primitive #SelfTaught #OutsiderArt #BlackHistory #AmericanArt
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My mind is still on gratitude. One thing I am grateful for is music, especially song. Your art history post for today: by African-American artist Charles White (1918-1979), Folksinger (Voice of Jericho: Portrait of Harry Belafonte), 1957, ink and colored ink with white additions on board, 52 x 34" (131.8 x 86.5 cm), Museum of Modern Art, New York. #arthistory #blackart #blackartist #blackartists
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My mind is still on gratitude. One thing I am grateful for is music, especially song. Your art history post for today: by African-American artist Charles White (1918-1979), Folksinger (Voice of Jericho: Portrait of Harry Belafonte), 1957, ink and colored ink with white additions on board, 52 x 34" (131.8 x 86.5 cm), Museum of Modern Art, New York. #arthistory #blackart #blackartist #blackartists
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Excerpt: ‘Through stolen moments and carefully cultivated images, photography is a powerful medium for preserving memory, strengthening connection, and imagining new realities. It continues to teach us new lessons in resistance, solidarity, and agency. “The work that was done by artists and photographers before, during, and after the Black Arts Movement establishes a strategy of community engagement,” says Brookman. “It is that engagement that allows communities to define themselves and also to engage people in new forms of looking.”’
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Excerpt: ‘Through stolen moments and carefully cultivated images, photography is a powerful medium for preserving memory, strengthening connection, and imagining new realities. It continues to teach us new lessons in resistance, solidarity, and agency. “The work that was done by artists and photographers before, during, and after the Black Arts Movement establishes a strategy of community engagement,” says Brookman. “It is that engagement that allows communities to define themselves and also to engage people in new forms of looking.”’
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By the first African-American artist to achieve international recognition, Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821-1872), Still Life with Fruit and Nuts, 1848, oil on board, 30.48 x 40.64 cm (12 x 16 in.), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #blackart #blackartist #blackartists
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By the first African-American artist to achieve international recognition, Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821-1872), Still Life with Fruit and Nuts, 1848, oil on board, 30.48 x 40.64 cm (12 x 16 in.), National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. #arthistory #painting #oilpainting #blackart #blackartist #blackartists
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Renee Cox (born October 16, 1960) is a Jamaican-American artist, photographer, lecturer, political activist and curator.
Background
Cox has "dedicated her career to deconstructing stereotypes and to reconfiguring the black woman's body, using her nude form as a subject."(1/24)
#blackwomen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackmastodon #blackcaribbean #blackartists #blackphotographers #blacklecturers #blactivists #blackcurators