Famous Black artists have changed the landscape of modern and classic art ... made her mark on American art through paintings, mixed media sculptures and “story quilts,” the latter of which ...

Wade Guyton is a contemporary American ... paintings. Guyton’s work is formal in nature, and can be seen as a revisitation of Modernist ideals bracketed within the questions and issues of digital ...

The Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture were created by the Smithsonian American Art Museum to assist researchers in locating American paintings and sculptures for comparative study.

so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of status that were long denied to people of color in European-controlled territories, serve as a cultural acknowledgment of their ...

Frustrated with the absence of positive representations of Black people in art, John Wilson responded by providing images of Black dignity while addressing the painful realities of racial prejudice.

By the end of the 1970s, Mr. Künstler began concentrating on fine-art paintings of historical subjects, often military themes. He painted scenes of wars from the American Revolution through Vietnam.