African American Art

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Ernie Barnes'

Ernie Barnes (1938 - 2009), The Sugar Shack. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 in. (91.4 x 121.9 cm.) Painted in 1976. Price realized: $15.2 million. © Christie's Images Ltd 2022. Complete article Ernie Barnes masterpiece to be offered at Bonhams New York on September 9 Solid Rock Congregation (1993), by Ernie Barnes (estimate: $500,000-700,000). Photo: Bonhams. NEW YORK, NY.- A masterpiece by American artist Ernie Barnes (1938-2009) depicting a lively Sunday church service will hit the auction block this fall at Bonhams New York, following a summer tour to London and Los Angeles. A b... read more
African-American Art5 weeks ago
Alma Thomas

Laura Wheeler Waring, *Portrait of Alma Thomas*, ca. 1945, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Vincent Melzac 1977.121. NameAlma ThomasAlso Known as Alma Woodsey Thomas Alma W. Thomas BornColumbus, Georgia 1891DiedWashington, District of Columbia 1978 Nationalities American Linked Open Data During the 1960s Alma Thomas emerged as an exuberant colorist, abstracting shapes and patterns from the trees and flowers around her. Her new palette and technique—considerably lighter and looser than in her earlier representational works and dark abstractions—reflected her l... read more
African-American Art3 months ago
Elizabeth Catlett

*I Am a Black Woman: Elizabeth Catlett & Representation* *in Art* Elizabeth Catlett’s landmark contributions to twentieth-century art begin in the 1940s with a new representation of African American women. Catlett was the first Modern artist who centered her identity as an African American woman and artist in her work. By the 1960s, through her painting, sculpture and printmaking, Catlett had created a unique and important voice in Modern art. ------------------------------ Early-Life Elizabeth Catlett was born in Washington, D.C. in 1915. She received her undergraduate degree f... read more
African-American Art5 months ago
A Site of Struggle: American Art against Anti-Black Violence

*The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University* *Jan. 26 to July 10, 2022* seeks to address this and related questions as it considers the long history of American artistic engagement with anti-Black violence. From the anti-lynching campaigns of the 1890s to the founding of Black Lives Matter in 2013 and up to today, (2) Dox Thrash, After the Lynching, late 1930s. Carborundum mezzotint. 5 15/16 × 8 15/16 in. Courtesy of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Emory Douglas, November 16, 1972, 1972. © 2021 Emory Douglas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. “H... read more
African-American Art8 months ago
Bob Thompson

Bob Thompson, "Garden of Music," 1960. Oil on canvas. 79 1/2 × 143 in. (201.9 × 363.2 cm). Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut. The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund. © Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York. Photo: Allen Phillips / Wadsworth AtheneumBob Thompson in his studio on Rivington Street, NY, c. 1964. © Charles Rotmil "All this was totally my imagination of a faraway place." - Bob Thompson An important traveling exhibition offers a rich reconsideration of a visionary African American painter. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Bob ... read more
African-American Art10 months ago
African-American Art Previews

African American Art in the 20th Century - Exhibition Opens at the Hudson River Museum in October - Sargent Johnson, Mask , ca. 1930 - 1935, copper on wood base. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of International Business Machines Corporation. Felrath Hines, Red Stripe with Green Background , 1986, oil on linen. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of Dorothy C. Fisher, wife of the artist. © 1986, Dorothy C. Fisher Hudson River Museum will present *African American Art in the 20th Century*, an exhibition of exemplary paintings and sculptures by thirty-four African American a... read more
African-American Art10 months ago
African American Art in the 20th Century

- Exhibition Opens at the Hudson River Museum in October - Sargent Johnson, Mask , ca. 1930 - 1935, copper on wood base. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of International Business Machines Corporation. Felrath Hines, Red Stripe with Green Background , 1986, oil on linen. Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of Dorothy C. Fisher, wife of the artist. © 1986, Dorothy C. Fisher Hudson River Museum will present *African American Art in the 20th Century*, an exhibition of exemplary paintings and sculptures by thirty-four African American artists who came to prom... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
Emma Amos

Bold mixed-media paintings by a trailblazing artist who challenged society regarding race, gender, and privilege will be showcased in *“**Emma Amos: Color Odyssey**,”* on view June 19 through September 12 in the Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. “Emma Amos: Color Odyssey” is a major retrospective of the artist’s distinguished six-decade career. The exhibition features more than 60 artworks Amos created from 1958 to 2015. Though Amos is best known for her large-scale paintings incorporating African fabrics, she also embraced multiple types of materials, inno... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
Bill Traylor

Bill Traylor (American, 1853-1949), Nothin’ to Somethin’ – Freedom, undated. Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, gift of B.K. Fulton and Jackie Stone Bill Traylor (American, 1853-1949), Dance, undated. Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, gift of B.K. Fulton and Jackie Stone The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) has announced the gift of nine captivating works on paper created with paint, graphite and colored pencils by the iconic African American artist Bill Traylor. This generous donation is from the collection of B.K. Fulton and Jackie Stone. “Thes... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection

Charles Alston (American 1907-1977), Portrait of Girl, 1940. The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection. The Gathering Place and Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, will host artworks from the Kinsey collection, beginning May 22 through June 2021 in the ONEOK Boathouse. The collection then travels to Tacoma Art Museum in Washington this summer. The widely acclaimed exhibition, *The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection*, celebrates the achievements and contributions of Black Americans from 1595 to present times. Considered one of the most comprehe... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
Nellie Mae Rowe

Nellie Mae Rowe, Untitled (Dandy), 1978–1982, crayon and pencil on paper, 24 x 18 inches, gift of Harvie and Charles Abney.*High Museum of Art*Nellie Mae Rowe (American, 1900-1982), "When I Was a Little Girl," 1978, crayon, marker, colored pencil, and pencil on paper, 19 x 24, inches, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, purchase with Folk Art Acquisition Fund, 2002.73. © 2021 Estate of Nellie Mae Rowe/ARS, NY. Melinda Blauvelt, Nellie Mae Rowe, Vinings, Georgia 1971, printed 2021, silver gelatin print, 20 x 24 inches, gift of the artist.*High Museum of Art* Nellie Mae Rowe, Real Girl, 1... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
Augusta Savage

Great article: https://artdaily.cc/news/134379/The-Black-woman-artist-who-crafted-a-life-she-was-told-she-couldn-t-have#.YGTBItXwZoE Also see https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/augusta-savage-renaissance-woman Organized by guest curator Jeffreen M. Hayes, Ph.D., the Augusta Savage: Renaissance Woman exhibition features nearly 80 works of art, including sculptures, paintings, and works on paper, and is the first to reassess Harlem Renaissance artist Augusta Savage’s contributions to art and cultural history in light of 21st-century attention to the concept of the artist... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
Major Gift Celebrating Black American Artists of the 20th Century

Richard Mayhew, Overture, 2001; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, gift of the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection; © Richard Mayhew; photo: Katherine Du Tiel, courtesy SFMOMAHughie Lee-Smith, Two Boys, 1968; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, gift of the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection; © Estate of Hughie Lee-Smith/ARS (Artist Rights Society), New York; photo: Ian ReevesLoïs Mailou Jones, Peasants at Kenscoff, 1955; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, gift of the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection; © Estate of Loïs Mailou Jones; photo: Ian Reeves Elizabeth Catlett, Singing Head, 1968; San Franci... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
Black Women Artists from the Tubman Museum Collection

Ana Bel Lee (1926 – 2000) Wedding.*Tubman Museum* (ARTFIX*daily*.com) On March 5, 2021, the Tubman Museum will open an exhibition titled *A Mighty Chorus: Black Women* *Artists from the Tubman Museum Collection*. The exhibit will feature works by local African American women artists from the Tubman museum collection with a special focus on the works of Nellie Mae Rowe and Anna Belle Lee Washington, also known as Ana Bel Lee. After the death of her second husband in 1948, Nellie Mae Rowe (1900 – 1982) spent the rest of her life creating an extensive and important collection of... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
Beauford Delaney

Beauford Delaney, Yaddo, 1950, pastel on paper, 18 × 24 inches. Knoxville Museum of Art, 2017 purchase with funds provided by the Rachael Patterson Young Art Acquisition Reserve. © The Estate of Beauford Delaney, image Bruce Cole. Featuring more than 40 paintings and works on paper, *Beauford Delaney’s Metamorphosis into Freedom* examines the career evolution of modern painter Beauford Delaney (Knoxville, TN 1901–1979 Paris, France) within the context of his 38-year friendship with writer James Baldwin (New York 1924-1987 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France). The exhibition travels f... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
Records for Charles Alston, Wadsworth Jarrell, Augusta Savage and More in African American Art

-----*at Swann* The December 10, 2020, sale of African American Art was met with enthusiasm from collectors. The sale saw nine auction records set, as well as an auction debut from contemporary artist Tyrone Geter. The auction total reached $2.8 million bringing the house’s African American Art sale totals for the year to $9.2 million. ------------------------------ Charles Alston Charles Alston, *Black and White #8*, oil on canvas, 1961. Sold for $197,000, a record for the artist. Leading the December sale was Charles Alston’s *Black and White #8*, oil on canvas, 1961. The ... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
Benny Andrews

Benny Andrews: A life in portraits Benny Andrews (1930-2006), Portrait of the Portrait Painter (Portraits of... Series), 1987, oil and graphite on two canvas panels with painted fabric collage, 80 x 100 x 3/4 inches / 203.2 x 254 x 1.9 cm, signed. Benny Andrews (1930-2006), Janitors at Rest, 1957-58. Oil on canvas with paper and painted fabric collage, 50 x 36 inches / 127 x 91.4 cm, signed. Benny Andrews once defined his artistic ambition as a desire to represent “a real person before the eyes.” The phrase is the subtitle of a momentous exhibition at the Michael Rosenfe... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
Romare Bearden Collages Lead African American Art at Swann
*Kerry James Marshall, Wadsworth Jarrell, Augusta Savage, Alma Thomas & Kara Walker feature* New York—*Swann Galleries*’ fall offering of *African American Art* comes across the block on *Thursday, December 10*. The auction will present a strong offering of works by notable artists, including Romare Bearden, Charles Alston, Wadsworth Jarrell and artists from the AfriCOBRA collective, as well as sculptors Simone Leigh and Elizabeth Catlett. *Romare Bearden* leads the sale with *Woman and Child*—an impressive collage inspired by Renaissance paintings and ima... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
Reckoning with “The Incident”: John Wilson’s Studies for a Lynching Mural.

John Wilson, Compositional study for The Incident, 1952. Opaque and transparent watercolor, ink, and graphite, squared for transfer. Yale University Art Gallery, Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund. © Estate of John Wilson John Wilson, Negro Woman, study for The Incident, 1952. Oil on Masonite. Clark Atlanta University Art Collection, Atlanta Annuals. © Estate of John Wilson. Courtesy Clark Atlanta University Art Collection On September 25, the Yale University Art Gallery opened to visitors for the first time in nearly seven months with new covid-19 safety measures in place. “Our wor... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
African Modernism in America

Peter Clarke (South African, 1929-2014) That Evening Sun Goes Down, 1960. Gouache on paper. Fisk University Galleries, Nashville. Gift of Harmon Foundation. Gerard Sekoto (South African, 1913-1993) Profile,1960. Fisk University Galleries, Nashville. Gift of Harmon Foundation. (c) 2020 Gerard Sekoto, DALRO / Johannesburg, VAGA at ARS NY. A traveling exhibition planned for late 2022 will illuminate *African Modernism in America, 1947–1967. *The exhibition is organized by the American Federation of Arts and Fisk University Galleries in Nashville, which will be the first venue. *African ... read more
African-American Art6 months ago
Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, the seat of Mecklenburg County, on September 2, 1911. About 1914, his family joined in the Great Migration north, settling in New York City, which remained Bearden's base for the rest of his life. He became a prolific artist whose works were exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. He was also a respected writer and an eloquent spokesman on artistic and social issues of the day. His many awards and honors include the National Medal of Arts he received from President Ronald Reagan in 1987, one year before he died in 198... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
Dox Thrash

Also see: https://www.hydecollection.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Thrash-online-exhibition2.pdf [image: Dox Thrash, "Saturday Night," c. 1944-45, etching. Courtesy of Dolan/Maxwell, Philadelphia.] *Dox Thrash, **Saturday Night,* c. 1944-45, etching. Courtesy of Dolan/Maxwell. Philadelphia-based artist *Dox Thrash* (1893–1965) was both a pioneering printmaker and a noted participant in the “New Negro” movement of the 1930s and ’40s. A veteran of World War I as well as the minstrel stage, he trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before making his way to Philad... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
Jacob Lawrence

The paintings of Jacob Lawrence express his lifelong concern for human dignity, freedom, and his own social consciousness. His images portray the everyday reality, the struggles and successes of African American life. Using art as an instrument of protest, Lawrence aligned himself with the American school of social realism and Mexican muralist tradition. [image: Image result] *"Carpenters"* lithograph by Jacob Lawrence in the Bruce Museum exhibition"ReTooled: Highlights from the Hechinger Collection." photo: Joel Breger Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Lawrence grew up in Harl... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
African American Art - Georgia Museum of Art

*Expanding Tradition: Selections from the Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Collection*,” The Thompsons donated 100 works of art by African Americans to the museum in 2012, on the heels of a traveling exhibition drawn from their collection, “Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art.” “Expanding Tradition” is a second exhibition highlighting the couple’s commitment to collecting art over the last several decades through a new selection of works borrowed from their extensive private collection. “Expanding Tradition” also serves as the inaug... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
Archibald Motley

Twitter - Facebook Archibald Motley (1891–1981) was born in New Orleans and lived and painted in Chicago most of his life. But because his subject was African-American life, he’s counted by scholars among the artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Many of Motley’s favorite scenes were inspired by good times on “The Stroll,” a portion of State Street, which during the twenties, the *Encyclopedia of Chicago* says, was “jammed with black humanity night and day.” It was part of the neighborhood then known as Bronzeville, a name inspired by the range of skin color one might see the... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
William H. Johnson

William H. Johnson, *Jitterbugs (I), *ca. 1940-1941, gouache and pen and ink on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation, 1967.59.1063 *Jitterbugs (II)* William H. Johnson, ca. 1941, oil on paperboard. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Harmon Foundation. 1967.59.611 By almost any standard, William H. Johnson (1901–1970) can be considered a major American artist. He produced hundreds of works in a virtuosic, eclectic career that spanned several decades as well as several continents. It was not until very recently, however, that his wo... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
Red Grooms

For over fifty years, American artist Red Grooms (born 1937) has used his brush to capture the great panorama of life. And for over fifty years people have delighted in his luscious, loud, laughing depictions that so uniquely celebrate the famous and the anonymous, the meaningful and the absurd, the high and the low, of twentieth-century America. *Red Grooms, Cedar Bar, 1986. Colored pencil and crayon on five sheets in artist’s wood frame. Yale University Art Gallery, Charles B. Benenson, b.a. 1933, Collection* Executed in colored pencil and watercolor on five large sheets of pa... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
Charles White.

With *Charles White: A Retrospective*, The Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago present the first major museum exhibition of Charles White’s oeuvre in over 30 years, on view at The Museum of Modern Art from October 7, 2018, through January 13, 2019. Covering the full breadth of his career with over 100 multidisciplinary works, the exhibition features drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, and contextual ephemera. Prior to its MoMA presentation, the exhibition will be on view at the Art Institute of Chicago from June 8 through September 3, 2018. Following its MoM... read more
African-American Art1 year ago
Horace Pippin

Philadelphia Museum of Art A bequest includes three important works by the self-taught African American painter Horace Pippin, including *The Getaway* (1939), a stark winter scene in which a fox makes off with a bird in its mouth; *Study for Barracks* (1945), which conveys the everyday activity of African American combat soldiers in a dugout during World War II; and *The Park Bench* (1946), which is often interpreted as a psychological portrait of the artist and was painted in the last year of his life. *Horace Pippin, Domino Players, 1943. Oil on composition board, 12... read more
African-American Art12 years ago
Achievement Gap Analysis
Some States May Be Better Positioned for Higher Scores on Race to the Top Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts, Texas, Vermont among top states; wide gaps could spell failure for applications from Arizona, California, Michigan, Mississippi, Rhode Island As state leaders put the finishing touches on applications for federal Race to the Top (RTT) funding, many recognize that they will never achieve the excellence the Obama administration seeks without focusing their proposals squarely on equity for low-income students and students of color. Indeed, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has... read more
African-American Art12 years ago
Delaware’s "Plan to Strengthen Delaware's Schools"
* Regulations submitted to help every child receive a world-class education To improve the quality of Delaware schools and better prepare Delaware students for college, work and life, the Governor and the Department of Education have created an education reform action plan that represents the input of more than 100 participants, including teachers, administrators, the business community, parents, the disabilities community, higher education leaders, and legislators over the course of several months. The Secretary and the Governor will be attending community forums in local distric... read more
African-American Art12 years ago
New State Assessment Contract Awarded
A five-year contract has been awarded by the Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) to the American Institutes for Research (AIR), located in Washington, D.C., to begin the immediate development and piloting of a new statewide assessment system for public school students in grades 2-10, known as the Delaware Comprehensive Assessment System (DCAS). Beginning with the 2009-2010 school year, AIR will pilot: * online testing in reading and mathematics for grades 3-8, * end-of-course online testing for high school students in English language arts, mathematics and science, * online test... read more
African-American Art12 years ago
Delaware's After School Programming Evaluated
* Delaware Losing Ground in Making Afterschool Programs Available; Fewer Kids in Afterschool; Unmet Demand High A new survey finds no progress in participation in afterschool programs by Delaware youth over the last five years, even as the nation made progress and demand for afterschool programs in Delaware remained high. The rate of participation in afterschool dropped to 14 percent in 2009, trailing the national average of 15 percent – and a significant percentage of the state’s children are still unsupervised each afternoon after the school day ends. The data come from the lan... read more
African-American Art12 years ago
Has NCLB Hurt Delaware's Students?
* New Study Finds Little Evidence That Federal Emphasis on “Proficient” Performance Has Shortchanged Advanced or Low-Achieving Students Delaware Report Student performance on state reading and math tests has generally risen at three achievement levels, according to a 50-state study by the Center on Education Policy (CEP). The study found more states with gains than declines in the percentages of students reaching or exceeding the basic, proficient, and advanced levels of achievement, and relatively few instances of sizeable declines in the percentage scoring below the basic level.... read more
African-American Art12 years ago
Delaware's SAT and ACT Results
* SAT Results More than 1.5 million students (1,530,128) in the class of 2009 took the SAT, the most widely used and researched standardized college admission test. Delaware SAT Report: ACT Results The percentage of U.S. high school graduates meeting all four of ACT’s College Readiness Benchmarks increased slightly in 2009 as the pool of students taking the ACT® continued to expand, according to the not-for-profit ACT’s annual grad class report on college readiness. Nevertheless, the findings suggest continued effort to improve college readiness is needed on the part of states ... read more
African-American Art12 years ago
Delaware AP Participation Rate Is Up
The number of Delaware public school students participating in Advanced Placement (AP) continued to climb compared to last year's results including the number of examinations taken by students and the number of scores at "3" or higher. Compared to 2008, the number of public school students participating in AP examinations increased by 3.9% while over the past five years, that increase has risen to 15%. In 2009, the number of AP exams increased by 8.2%; in two years the percentage has risen 12.8%. Also, AP participation rates increased for American Indian, Asian, Black, Hispanic and ... read more
African-American Art12 years ago
2009 Statewide DSTP Test Results
Test scores of Delaware students in grades 2-10 continue to stabilize in reading and mathematics, according to results of the March 2009 Delaware Student Testing Program . The results are as follows: Mathematics: At grades 2-5, students meeting or exceeding the standard ranges from 87% in grade 2 to 77% in grade 5. In grades 6-8, middle school student scores range from 75% in grade 6 to 66% in grade 8. At the high school level, grade 9 student scores increased to 55% while grade 10 student scores decreased slightly to 56%. Comparing test scores to last year's results, 78% of child... read more