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Duel in the Sun Houston Chandler was a sculptor, printmaker, painter and teacher from Saint Louis, MO. Duel in the Sun is a print artwork of an avian match on an abstracted landscape. One colorful rooster looks down upon the other it just defeated. The roosters are set on a green field against a blue sky with a swirling yellow sun.
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Still Life with Fish Howard E. Lewis was an Art professor and Korean War veteran from Columbus, OH. Still Life with Fish is a watercolor depiction of two fish and vase on a table. Lewis uses stark shapes, colors and patterns to create the fish, vase, table and background.
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East River Joseph Delaney, younger brother of Beauford Delaney, was a Harlem Renaissance artist from Knoxville, TN. East River depicts the waterway that separates Queens from Manhattan. The impasto piece shows Queens’ and two boats by the Queensboro bridge with Manhattan in the distance
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Self Portrait Hayward Oubre was a multimedia artist and educator from Alabama who won several awards in the Atlanta Annuals. Self Portrait is an etching of the artist from the shoulders up. His neck, shoulders, ears and mouth are etched lightly while his shortcut hair, eyebrows, eyes, and mustache are dark and etched deeply.
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John Brown Charles White was painter, printmaker, muralist educator and known for his stylistic approach to African American subjects from Chicago, IL. John Brown is a print portrait of its namesake. He was a prominent member of the American abolitionist movement. The print portrays Brown in dark hues as he stares off into the distance.
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Before the Rains Came Leonard Cooper was a painter, musician and piano teacher from Salinas, CA. Before the Rains Came illustrates a rural landscape prior to a rainstorm. It depicts two barns, a thicket of trees, a fenced area and rolling hills under a dark cloudy sky.
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Negro Woman Elizabeth Catlett was a artist and educator from Washington, D.C who repatriated to Mexico. Negro Woman is a print depicting a dark-skinned woman looking off into the distance. The piece is in Black and white aside from her brown face. The woman is wearing a jacket that's pinned at the collar, an undershirt and a straw hat.
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Morning on Cape Cod Frank H. Alston, Jr. was an artist and teacher from Providence, RI. Morning on Cape Cod illustrates a cloudy morning along the coast of a peninsula on the Massachusetts Coast. The image depicts a boy standing at the shoreline, boats sailing across the water, a house on top of a hill and a residential area in the distance.
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Trabajador John Woodrow Wilson was a sculptor, painter, printmaker and educator from Roxbury, MA. Trabajador is a black and white depiction of a Black bricklayer working at a construction site. The bricklayer is wearing a ten gallon hat, overalls and holding bricks as he uses a trowel. There are steel beams in the background.
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Sharecropper's Migration Vernon Winslow, born in Ohio, studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. Sharecropper’s Migration is a watercolor painting of a family with gestural features. The father, with a muted red skin tone, rests his hand on his son’s shoulder to reassure him. The family wears a sad but hopeful expression on their faces as they ride on a horse carriage
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Voodoo Worshipers, Haiti Lois Mailou Jones was an artist and art educator, known for her costumes, textile designs, watercolors, paintings and collages, from Washington, D.C. Voodoo Worshippers, Haiti is a watercolor scene of three Haitian Voodoo practitioners around four candles under a full moon. Jones places colorful shapes behind black brushstrokes that create depth.
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Woman in White Frank Neal was a painter who studied in Mexico and The Art Institute of Chicago. Woman in White is a portrait painting of a Black woman in all white attire holding an umbrella with a white and gold handle. She is depicted as high class in a bright yellow room with two chairs, a white picture frame, and a marble table in the background
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My Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather's Cousin Irene V. Clark was a diasporic folklore artist from Washington, D.C. My Great, Great, Great, Great Grandfather's Cousin is a cubist portrait of a Black string musician wearing a cape and turban. Clark creates a symmetrical arch framing the subject and a perched hummingbird.
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Portrait of Jo Franklin Shands was a painter from Cincinnati, Ohio. Portrait of Jo is a portrait of a woman looking sternly into a distance as a light shines on the left side of her face. The woman, named Jo, wears her black hair pinned upwards, wears a blue top, small earrings, and red lipstick.
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Queenie John Farrar was a child prodigy who won the 3rd Atlanta Art Annuals at 15 years old. Queenie, his winning piece, is a realist depiction of a dog lying on a white sheet in a dark room.
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Prayer for Freedom Al Tyler was an artist known for his figurative murals and landscape paintings. Prayer for Freedom shows two scenes from the fight for Civil Rights. The left side shows Black and white people leaving a courthouse; the right side shows armed officials stopping Black men from entering a building.
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Baptismal (I Give This Child In Baptism) Romeyn van Vleck Lippman was a 19th-century painter and educator. Baptismal (I Give This Child to Baptism) depicts a religious scene of a woman preparing to baptize a girl. Both female subjects are dark skinned and standing in water, dressed in white, under a dark sky. The woman is wearing a red kerchief and the girl, a white one.
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Verily, I Say Unto You Hayward Oubre was a multimedia artist and educator from Montgomery, Alabama. Verily, I Say Unto You depicts a modern Black Jesus portrait. Jesus is drawn with an elongated nose with wide nostrils, large eyes, pursed lips, locs and a raised finger.
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Negro Woman John Woodrow Wilson was a sculptor, painter, printmaker and educator from Roxbury, MA. Negro Woman depicts a Black woman looking toward the distance from the side of her eyes. She is standing outside in a peach-colored shirt with the sun reflecting off of her face. Behind her are large buildings and a dark blue sky.
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Marine Land Fantasy Jewell Woodard Simon was an internationally-acclaimed artist, teacher, and poet from Houston TX. Marine Land Fantasy is an underwater landscape drawing of fish and plants. Simon uses a variety of colors which illustrates aquatic biodiversity. Her use of lines evokes the depth of open water.
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Barrier Samella Sanders Lewis was a printmaker, painter, sculptor and art historian from New Orleans, LA. Barrier is a drawing that depicts the physical and social barriers between groups of people. In the foreground are three women and a boy suspiciously looking at a group of townspeople who return their stare from the other side of a barbed wire fence.
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Oppression Frank W. Neal was a multidisciplinary artist born in Texas but raised in New York City. Oppression depicts a child watching a weary woman sitting at a table. The woman is at the table resting her head in her hands in a yellow shirt. The child and the interior of the house, including a vanity, is sepia-toned.
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Portrait of The Wise Men Merton D. Simpson was an abstract expressionist painter and African art collector from Brooklyn, N.Y. Portrait of The Wise Men is an oil painting of the three male Biblical magi. The men on the left and right are holding texts, and the central man's head is seen between them. Simpson uses muted colors throughout the piece.
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Madonna Moderne Frederick D. Jones, Jr. is a twentieth century artist from Chicago, Ill. Madonna Moderne depicts surrealist vignettes of a Black Madonna and child. The piece shows a veiled mother holding an injured baby and the same pair at a gravesite in a war torn landscape. Jones also includes symbols of purity and humility, as well as war and mortality.
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Revival Romeyn van Vleck Lippman was a 19th-century painter and educator. Revival depicts three figures standing in a position of grief and consolation. The central Black boy is looking down grievingly, a Black woman is behind him with an averted gaze and to his left is a veiled elderly White woman gazing at him while holding his chest.