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Betye Irene Saar (born July 30, 1926) is an American artist known for her work in the medium of assemblage.Saar is a visual storyteller and an accomplished printmaker. Saar was a part of the Black Arts Movement in the 1970s, which engaged myths and stereotypes about race and femininit
Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, printmaker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work.
The Rachel Creefield silhouette (c. 1825) is believed to be the earliest known hollow-cut silhouette of an African-American woman. [1] It is held in the collection of the Smithsonian. Rachel Creefield was employed by the Dickey family of Chester County , Pennsylvania.
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 ]
Henri Leighton was born in 1917 in Memphis, [2] son of Theo Levi, a merchant and son of German immigrants; and Janet Shuster Levi. [3] He received a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Mississippi in 1938. [4] [5] He served as a cryptographer in the Army Air Force during World War II.
Elizabeth Catlett, born as Alice Elizabeth Catlett, also known as Elizabeth Catlett Mora (April 15, 1915 [1] – April 2, 2012) [3] [4] was an American and Mexican sculptor and graphic artist best known for her depictions of the Black-American experience in the 20th century, which often focused on the female experience.
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African American artist Kara Walker featured two nkondi figures in her silhouette piece "Endless Conundrum, an African Anonymous Adventure" in 2001, and frequently re-exhibited. [19] In her self-curated show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2006, Walker also used an nkisi, probably nkondi as a central motif for the show "Kara Walker at the ...