This wealth allowed William to pursue art and historical preservation. He co-founded the American Negro Historical Society ...

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 ...

Boston is asking anyone who may have known Black or William at the time of the boy's death to call her office. For Ava, the woman who saw the artist's rendering and called in the crucial tip ...

He bought it after searching the name of the artist online ... led Robbins to identify the painter as William Henry Dorsey. The painting depicts a Black man fishing next to a church and an ...

Co-curator James Claiborne wants to disrupt the received notion that William Edmondson was a "naive" or "primitive" folk artist. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) For its presentation of sculptures by the seminal ...