Faith Ringgold is an African-American painter, writer, speaker, mixed media sculptor and performance artist best known for her large, painted story quilts. Born Faith Willi...
Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series (1940–41), a sequence of 60 paintings, depicts the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban...
Hale Aspacio Woodruff (August 26, 1900 – September 6, 1980) was an African-American artist known for his murals, paintings, and prints. His three-panel work, Amistad...
“My historical paintings represent the ultimate reference to the collective memory that all Haitians share about their glorious past and to the energetic force which...
Norman W. Lewis was an African American Abstract Expressionism painter. His earlier work was mostly figurative, but in the late 1940s, his work became increasingly...
Laurie Cooper is an African-American artist born and based in Philadelphia, PA. She received her BA degree from the University of Arts and her Master’s...