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Gerald Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1941. Earning his Masters of Fine Arts degree from Howard in 1976, he became a founding member of AfriCOBRA. His work as…
Read More Charles Alston (1907-1977) was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and was an American painter, muralist, sculptor, teacher, and illustrator, who lived and worked in Harlem. After graduating high school in…
Read More Without any formal training, Bill Hutson began creating abstract paintings in the early 1960s while he was an assistant to Frank N. Ashley. This apprenticeship was Hutson’s introduction to fine…
Read More Abstract painter and sculptor Jack Whitten was born in Alabama in 1939. After enrolling as a pre med student, he realized that he could not stay in the south due…
Read More Nanette Carter was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1954. After moving to New Jersey, she began to take art classes at the age of six. She attended Oberlin College and…
Read More Born in 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri, Lamerol A. Gatewood developed an interest in art while in high school. He attended Lindenwood University in Missouri earning a B.F.A in 1977…
Read More Robert Morris (born February 9, 1931, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He is regarded as one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along…
Read More Richard Serra (born November 2, 1939) is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art…
Read More Sam Gilliam was born in 1933 in Tupelo, Mississippi. He is an African American color field painter and lyrical abstractionist artist. In the 1950s and 1960s, Gilliam was involved with…
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Born around the turn of the century in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minor White was a prominent figure in mid-century American photography as a photographer, poet, critic, and educator. White’s early childhood…
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Mary Edmonia Lewis was the first female sculptor of African-American and Native-American heritage to gain professional and global recognition. Born to a freed Afro-Haitian father and a Chippewa (Ojibwe) Native…
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Most commonly associated with the Black Arts Movement of the 1960’s and 1970s, Barbara Jones-Hogu (1938-2017) spent her life deeply rooted in Chicago. Born in the city and spending a…
Read MoreAlma Woodsey Thomas was an African American painter, best known for her abstract paintings and Expressionist style. Her exuberant work is noteworthy for their pattern, rhythm, color. She was born…
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Born in Manhattan, New York, Frissell trained as an actress before switching careers to photography. She began taking fashion photographs for Vogue after being encouraged to do so by the…
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Berenice Abbott was an American photographer best known for her portraits of 20th century New York City cultural figures, architecture and urban design, in particular through the WPA Federal Art…
Read More Mary Jane Peale, a New York native, was an American painter. Peale is known for her still-life and portraiture works. Coming from a family of painters including Rubens Peale, Charles…
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(B. November 20, 1929) Wadsworth Jarrell is an African American painter, sculptor, and printmaker. Jarrell attended the Art Institute of Chicago, and after graduation, joined the local Chicago arts scene.…
Read More Johanna Goodman is a New York based American artist who works primarily in illustration and collage. Her on-going body of work, “The Catalogue of Imaginary Beings”, explores fashion, history, and…
Read More Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1880, Lilian Westcott Hale was an American impressionist painter. She painted a variety of subjects, including interiors, landscapes, and still lifes, but she is most…
Read More Joan Mitchell was one of the few female American Abstract Expressionist painters to gain wide acclaim. Although she spent the majority of her career in France, during her early career…
Read More Nan Goldin is an American photographer whose work captures intimate, vulnerable, and emotional moments. Many of her subjects are LGBTQ individuals, and through their experiences, her work also explores social…
Read More Theora Hamblett is an American painter, born in Paris, Mississippi in 1895. She was raised on a chicken farm which would later inspire a lot of her artwork. As a…
Read More B. 1945 Dorothea Tanning is an American surrealist painter whose early career was greatly inspired by artists such as Eileen Agar and René Magritte. Another inspiration of hers was Max…
Read More An American conceptual artist, Elaine Sturtevant addressed the theme of reproduction in her work. She reproduced the works of the famous Pop artists raising questions of originality, ownership, and appropriation.…
Read More Lezley Saar, daughter of artist Betye Saar, is a Contemporary painter and mixed-media artist. Much of her work is narrative and inspired by literature or history, and Saar has commented…
Read More Betye Saar is an African American artist best known for her assemblages that combine found objects and traditional art materials that tell stories. She began her career studying design and…
Read More The daughter of artist Betye Saar, the Los Angeles based artist Alison Saar reflects on blackness and femininity and their marginalization in her paintings, sculptures, and large scale installations. She…
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