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Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) is a famous Black female artist with a knack for combining abstract and figurative styles, plus African and Mexican art traditions, to create sculptures and prints ...
Charles Wilbert White, Jr. (April 2, 1918 – October 3, 1979) was an American artist known for his chronicling of African American related subjects in paintings, drawings, lithographs, and murals. White's lifelong commitment to chronicling the triumphs and struggles of his community in representational form cemented him as one of the most well ...
Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.. This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting ...
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 ]
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (/ m iː t ə ˈ v aʊ / MEE-tə VOW; born Meta Vaux Warrick; June 9, 1877 – March 13, 1968 [a]) was an African-American artist who celebrated Afrocentric themes. At the fore of the Harlem Renaissance , Warrick was known for being a poet, painter, theater designer, and sculptor of the black American experience.
Archibald John Motley, Jr. (October 7, 1891 – January 16, 1981), [1] was an American visual artist. Motley is most famous for his colorful chronicling of the African-American experience in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s, and is considered one of the major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance, or the New Negro Movement, a time in which African-American art reached new heights not just ...
David C. Driskell (June 7, 1931 – April 1, 2020) was an American artist, scholar and curator recognized for his work in establishing African-American Art as a distinct field of study. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In his lifetime, Driskell was cited as one of the world's leading authorities on the subject of African-American Art. [ 3 ]
Black artists across the country are fighting for more jobs in the art industry, saying they are underrepresented in numbers and influence. “If you want to go back, all of our cultural story was ...