PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Museum of Art says that its purchase of Henry Ossawa Tanner's 1898 "Annunciation" was the first piece by an African American artist to be acquired by a major ...

After that it trickled South in slow wave. Marshall said access to formal art school education shaped early African-American Art. A transition in African-American Art came with the Harlem Renaissance ...

The publication "Black Art in America" chose the exhibit as the top must-see museum exhibition focusing on African-American art in the country. Museum director Masha Turchinsky was blown away.