African-American art
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African-American art is known visual artworks made by African-Amercian people. Some people have drawn traditions in Africa. Slave owners hired out many skilled African slave artisans.
Galleries
Art
Early African-American
Painter Edward Mitchell Bannister, Pleasant Pastures, 1887.
Painter Grafton Tyler Brown, Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, 1887.
Sculptor Edmonia Lewis, Old Arrow Maker, 1872.
Painter Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Annunciation, 1898.
Harlem Renaissance
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Self-portrait by painter Malvin Gray Johnson, 1934.- Photo by the painter William H. Johnson, 1931.
Photographer James Van Der Zee's photo of a woman in evening attire, 1922.
William H. Johnson's Three Friends, c. 1945.
Archibald Motley, Gettin' Religion, 1948.
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller's Ethiopia Awakening, 1921.
Laura Wheeler's Heirlooms, 1916.
Contemporary
Larry D. Alexander, Send in the Clown, 2007.
Adrian Piper's Alice Down the Rabbit Hole, 1965.
Howardeena Pindell's Queens, Festival, 2007.
Artists
Harlem Renaissance
Painter, sculptor, illustrator and muralist Charles Alston in 1939.
Sculptor and character artist Henry W. Bannarn in 1937.
Sculptor Richmond Barthé working on a clay figure, n.d.
Artist Romare Bearden, photographed in his military uniform in 1944.
Sculptor Leslie Bolling carving a sculpture, n.d.
Modernist painter Beauford Delaney in 1952.
Painter and illustrator Aaron Douglas, n.d.
Painter Palmer Hayden working on a landscape, n.d.
Artist Sargent Johnson, assessing his own sculpture, n.d.
Artist Loïs Mailou Jones in 1936.
Sculptor Augusta Savage, photographed between 1935 and 1947.
Painter Hale Woodruff at work on a canvas, c. 1936.
Contemporary
Painter and collagist Mark Bradford in 2016.
Sculptor, printer, and conceptual and visual artist Willie Cole in 2004.
Artist Leonardo Drew in Brooklyn studio in 2012.
Artist, scholar and curator David C. Driskell in 2016.
Sculptor and collagist Jerry Harris in 2008.
Conceptual post-black artist Rashid Johnson in 2008.
Painter, collagist and draftsman Eugene J. Martin in 1990.
Artists Sana Musasama and Janet Olivia Henry in 2019.
Painter and mixed media artist Howardena Pindell in 2019.
Conceptual artist Adrian Piper in 2005.
Painter and mixed media sculptor Faith Ringgold in 2017.
Assemblage artist Betye Saar in 2017.
Multimedia painter Raymond Saunders in 1995.
Photographer and multimedia artist Lorna Simpson in 2009.
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