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The National Museum of African Art was the first institution dedicated to African art in the United States, [6] followed by the New York-based Center for African Art (now The African Center) in 1984. [25] The National Museum's collection is more extensive. As of 2008, it consisted of 9,000 objects and 300,000 photographs.
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] When describing thirteen of these that predate the King Memorial, Jacqueline Trescott wrote for The Washington Post:
The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), colloquially known as the Blacksonian, is a Smithsonian Institution museum located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in the United States. [4] It was established in 2003 and opened its permanent home in 2016 with a ceremony led by President Barack Obama.
The Parish Gallery was founded by Norman Parish in 1991. Parish had moved to Washington, DC from Chicago in 1988, and opened the Parish Gallery in 1991. [2] [1] The gallery was described by The Washington Post as an art gallery "that spotlighted African American artists at a time when few other galleries concentrated on showing their work."
Roy Rudolph DeCarava (December 9, 1919 – October 27, 2009) was an American artist.DeCarava received early critical acclaim for his photography, initially engaging and imaging the lives of African Americans and jazz musicians in the communities where he lived and worked.
The Barnett-Aden Gallery is recognized as the first successful Black-owned private art gallery in the United States, [1] [2]: 2 [note 1] [3] showcasing numerous collectible artists and becoming an important, racially integrated part of the artistic and social worlds of 1940s and 1950s Washington, D.C.
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 ...
Addison N. Scurlock (June 19, 1883 – December 16, 1964) [1] was an American photographer, founder of The Scurlock Studio, and businessman who became prominent in the early and mid-20th century for photographing Black Washington.