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ZuCot Art Gallery, founded by Troy Taylor in 2009, is located in Atlanta’s Castleberry Hill section. It is one of the largest African American-owned fine art galleries in the Southeast.
Betye Saar (born 1926) is an assemblage art trailblazer and creator of a broad body of work exploring American social, political and economic issues, plus spirituality, mysticism and African ...
TN Smithsonian American Art Museum Rhythmic Blues National Museum of African American History and Culture Costume worn by Diana Ross as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues National Museum of ...
Smithsonian American Art Museum / Gift of the Harmon Foundation The African American artist William H. Johnson (1901-1970) had been painting expressionist landscapes in Europe for more than a ...
Rashid Johnson is an African-American Conceptual artist often hailed as a standard bearer for post-black art. Working in sculpture and photography, the artist employs vernacular yet culturally loaded ...
The museum hoped to incorporate “standing and rotating collections” from “African American art and artists of all varieties,” according to the Hundred Plan’s website. At the time ...
White’s mural, The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy (1943) at Hampton University is perhaps his best-known work, depicting famous African Americans across history. He saw art as a ...