African-American art

African-American art is known visual artworks made by African-Amercian people. Some people have drawn traditions in Africa. Slave owners hired out many skilled African slave artisans.

Galleries

Art

Early African-American

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  Painter Edward Mitchell Bannister, Pleasant Pastures, 1887.
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  Painter Grafton Tyler Brown, Old Faithful Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, 1887.
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  Sculptor Edmonia Lewis, Old Arrow Maker, 1872.
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  Painter Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Annunciation, 1898.

Harlem Renaissance

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  Self-portrait by painter Malvin Gray Johnson, 1934.
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  Photo by the painter William H. Johnson, 1931.
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  Photographer James Van Der Zee's photo of a woman in evening attire, 1922.
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  William H. Johnson's Three Friends, c. 1945.
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  Archibald Motley, Gettin' Religion, 1948.
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  Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller's Ethiopia Awakening, 1921.
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  Laura Wheeler's Heirlooms, 1916.

Contemporary

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  Larry D. Alexander, Send in the Clown, 2007.
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  Adrian Piper's Alice Down the Rabbit Hole, 1965.
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  Howardeena Pindell's Queens, Festival, 2007.

Artists

Harlem Renaissance

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  Painter, sculptor, illustrator and muralist Charles Alston in 1939.
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  Sculptor and character artist Henry W. Bannarn in 1937.
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  Sculptor Richmond Barthé working on a clay figure, n.d.
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  Artist Romare Bearden, photographed in his military uniform in 1944.
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  Sculptor Leslie Bolling carving a sculpture, n.d.
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  Modernist painter Beauford Delaney in 1952.
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  Painter and illustrator Aaron Douglas, n.d.
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  Painter Palmer Hayden working on a landscape, n.d.
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  Artist Sargent Johnson, assessing his own sculpture, n.d.
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  Artist Loïs Mailou Jones in 1936.
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  Sculptor Augusta Savage, photographed between 1935 and 1947.
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  Painter Hale Woodruff at work on a canvas, c. 1936.

Contemporary

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  Painter and collagist Mark Bradford in 2016.
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  Sculptor, printer, and conceptual and visual artist Willie Cole in 2004.
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  Artist Leonardo Drew in Brooklyn studio in 2012.
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  Artist, scholar and curator David C. Driskell in 2016.
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  Sculptor and collagist Jerry Harris in 2008.
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  Conceptual post-black artist Rashid Johnson in 2008.
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  Painter, collagist and draftsman Eugene J. Martin in 1990.
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  Artists Sana Musasama and Janet Olivia Henry in 2019.
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  Painter and mixed media artist Howardena Pindell in 2019.
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  Conceptual artist Adrian Piper in 2005.
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  Painter and mixed media sculptor Faith Ringgold in 2017.
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  Assemblage artist Betye Saar in 2017.
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  Multimedia painter Raymond Saunders in 1995.
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  Photographer and multimedia artist Lorna Simpson in 2009.