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Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22, 1891 – February 24, 1978) was an African-American artist and Art teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century.
Ethnic – African American: National museum devoted to the documentation of African American life, history, and culture. Opened September 24, 2016. [5] National Museum of African Art: Smithsonian Institution: Art African art and culture, includes paintings, musical instruments, sculpture, jewelry, regalia, textiles, pottery
Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.. This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting ...
African-American art is known as a broad term describing visual art created by African Americans. The range of art they have created, and are continuing to create, over more than two centuries is as varied as the artists themselves. [ 1 ]
Artworks commemorating African-Americans in Washington, D.C. is a group of fourteen public artworks in Washington, D.C., including the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial dedicated in 2011, that commemorate African Americans. [1]
This clash of cultures in her artwork exposed Asian appropriation of African American women. For example, Blackface #19, one of ten works in her collection, depicts a young Japanese woman sitting in a silk Kimono with traditional African Hairstyle. [9] It is assumed that the young women illustrated in the painting is a Geisha.
2008 – 16th Annual Exhibition: Creative Destinations 2008 Exhibition of African American Art; Art in the Atrium, Morristown, NJ; 2009 – Sound:Print:Record: African American; University of Delaware, Newark, DE; 2010 – Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography; The Museum of Modern Art, New York
May Howard Jackson (September 7, 1877 – July 12, 1931) was an African American sculptor and artist. Active in the New Negro Movement and prominent in Washington, D.C.'s African American intellectual circle in the period 1910–30, she was known as "one of the first black sculptors to...deliberately use America's racial problems" as the theme of her art. [1]