an enslaved African who died a free man at a very old age, comes from the diary of the man who painted his striking portrait. Charles William Peale was an American portrait painter who established ...

Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African American artist known for her painted depictions of early 20th-century plantation life in Louisiana. Hunter’s colorful oil paintings do not rely on ...

Kehinde Wiley is a contemporary African-American painter known for his distinctive portraits. His subjects are often young black men and women, rendered in a Photorealist style against densely ...

SUBMITTED ARTICLE [email protected] Oct 20, 2023 Oct 20, 2023 The Center for African American History ... Crawford specializes in acrylic and oil paintings, murals, epoxy installations ...