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Glyn Philpot’s sensitive portraits of Black subjects, unusual for the early 20th century, were given updated titles — and consideration — for a recent exhibition in England.
A Portrait Of Grief As An Elderly Black Man. Story by Garrick McFadden • 3mo. L ess than 24 hours after I had placed my father on an airplane, I heard his raspy, exhausted voice over the telephone.
A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ...
In 1848 or thereabouts, a talented artist painted an almost life-size group portrait of the three children of one of the ...
New Portraits Spotlight Black Revolutionaries Left Out of History. ... As a property-owner, he became one of the very first Black British people to vote in a general election, in 1774.
A 17th-century British portrait featuring an identified Black subject is shedding new light on the lives of enslaved attendants in aristocratic households thanks to the rediscovery of a letter ...
“Personal to Political” lives up to its name at Sarasota Art Museum. It showcases the work of 17 Black contemporary artists affiliated with Paulson Fontaine Press. They all get personal when it comes ...
Portrait of Man in Black, (painting) American Art Museum. Object Details painter Pierce, M. Subject Unidentified Notes Flower, Dean, and Francis Murphy, "A Catalogue of American Painting, Water Colors ...
A Black custodian was beloved at a North Texas church. But he wasn't allowed to worship there. John Thomas was a black man and World War I vet hired 100 years ago in 1924 at Broadway Baptist Church.