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I found people all over the country, black photographers, making mostly portraits of black people but also some of white abolitionists." Incidentally, Willis first wrote about Augustus Washington ...
Lisson Gallery will now represent Brazilian artist Dalton Paula, who is known for his paintings that depict important Black ...
Sherald grew up in Columbus, GA, and is known for her contemporary portraits of Black people in everyday life. Before the Obama portrait, Sherald was the first woman and first Black person to win ...
I'd found a number of portraits that depict their black subjects as real people, not caricatures, and Joseph Johnson's was one of those. It was etched by John Thomas Smith in 1815 and appeared in ...
You can now view the “Portrait of Leana and the Lambeth Children” in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA)’s American art ...
Oftentimes, the evidence for the presence of black people in this region of Europe is quite sparse, but in this case we have several confirmations, including a visual one. The mistress of the ...