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Swamp Fever Charles W. Stallings was a painter, printmaker, sculptor and educator from Gary, IN. Swamp Fever is a print of two swamp creatures. Stallings uses stark black, red and green lines and shadows to create cartoon-like renditions of swamp creatures with shocked expressions.
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Ensenada Passage Jewell Woodard Simon was an internationally-acclaimed artist, teacher, and poet from Houston TX. Ensenada Passage illustrates a mountainous path to Ensenada, Mexico. A bridge leading to the city is in the foreground, roads lay in the middle ground, and the mountains build up towards the sky, creating an atmospheric perspective.
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Muses Hale Aspacio Woodruff was an artist and art educator known for his murals, paintings, and prints from Cairo, IL. Muses, the sixth panel in the Art of the Negro mural series, presents a canon of seventeen male African diasporic artists from the 13th-20th centuries alongside their medium
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Influences Hale Aspacio Woodruff was an artist and art educator known for his murals, paintings, and prints from Cairo, IL. Influences, the fifth panel in the Art of the Negro mural series, conveys the role of traditional African art in the development of 20th century Western art movements.
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Parallels Hale Aspacio Woodruff was an artist and art educator known for his murals, paintings, and prints from Cairo, IL. Parallels, the fourth panel in the Art of the Negro mural series, shows the innate connection between non-European indigenous cultures despite geographic divisions.
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Dissipation Hale Aspacio Woodruff was an artist and art educator known for his murals, paintings, and prints from Cairo, IL. Dissipatation, the third panel in the Art of the Negro mural series, portrays the theft and disruption of African art and culture by Europeans through colonization.
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Interchange Hale Aspacio Woodruff was an artist and art educator known for his murals, paintings, and prints from Cairo, IL. Interchange, the second panel in the Art of the Negro mural series, depicts Africans exchanging knowledge of arts and sciences in antiquity.
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Native Forms Hale Aspacio Woodruff was an artist and art educator known for his murals, paintings, and prints from Cairo, IL. Native Forms, the first panel in the Art of the Negro mural series, illustrates the range, diversity and function of art in traditional African societies.
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Man Patricia C. Walker was an artist from Worcester, MA. Man is a surrealist drawing that uses gothic symbols to signify the mortality of humans, like the cross, crow on the tomb stone, skull, and an old man, and Christian iconography like Adam and the Snake.
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Wash Day Frederick D. Jones, Jr. was a mid-twentieth century artist from South Carolina. Wash Day is an impressionistic painting depicting a Black woman doing laundry. In the piece a robed woman with a laundry bag on her head is washing linens outside in a neighborhood. In the background are a house and two trees
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The Knock-Out James Dallas Parks, born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1907, was a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and art historian. The Knockout depicts the iconic photograph of the Muhammed Ali versus Sonny Lingston boxing match. Ali is standing in a victor’s stance above Lingston as he struggles to rise.
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Boogie Woogie Houston E. Chandler was a sculptor, printmaker, painter, and teacher from Saint Louis, MO. Boogie Woogie depicts two abstracted figures dancing the Boogie Woodie, a popular dance in the early 20th century.
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Pickets Roy DeCarava was a painter and printmaker before becoming known as a Harlem Renaissance photographer. Pickets depicts two men in winter wear standing in a picket line; they both are wearing sandwich boards. This lithograph is in response to the frustration with wages and working conditions after the end of the wartime no-strike pledge.
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Silent Sentinel
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Delancey Street, N.Y.C. Estella W. Johnson was a artist from New York, NY. Delancey Street, N.Y.C. is a watercolor depiction of a multi-use building in New York. There is a red brick apartment above a storefront with a fire escape. There is also a woman watering plants out of her window.
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The City is a Pattern Marjorie W. Brown, born in North Carolina, was an artist who studied art at Spelman College. The City Is A Pattern is a watercolor artwork that shows the linear perspective of a city. Brown uses repeating lines and geometric shapes for buildings, windows, signs, and sidewalks to show a consistent pattern of the landscape.
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Youth Charles White, born in Chicago, was painter, printmaker, muralist and educator known for his stylistic approach to Black subjects. Youth is a lithograph portrait of a young man looking into a far off distance. Cross hatching is used to create contrast between shadow and light across the young man’s face.
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Winter Feeling Julia Ann Fields was an artist from Lawrence, KS. Winter Feeling illustrates a residential area after a snowfall. The paiting depicts a green roofed house with a shed and wheelbarrow. In the background are three other homes in various colors and barren trees.
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Kirks Mill
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La Calle John Woodrow Wilson was a sculptor, painter, printmaker and educator from Roxbury, MA. La Calle, or The Street, is a print depiction of people traveling a gold cobblestoned street. There are male workers carrying wood and rock slabs, women and their children walking, a woman watching the street and a man facing the viewer.
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Boy with Green Head Robert Blackburn was a notable printmaker from Summit, NJ who grew up in Harlem, NY. Boy with Green Head is a print of a green-headed boy wearing a black shirt with a muted background. The boy is looking at the viewer with a pensive expression.
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February Lace Jewell Woodard Simon was an internationally acclaimed artist, teacher, and poet from Houston TX. February Lace is a atmospheric watercolor of a park in late winter. There are patches of dried and lush grass, trees with red and purple leaves and a bridge through the park. Simon used the trees in the foreground to create a sense of depth.
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Loneliness Oliver Banks Jr. was an artist from Atlanta, GA. Loneliness depicts a lone valley outside of a mountain range. In the foreground is flat land with scantily leafed trees. Beyond that is a body of water that separates the valley from the foot of the mountain.
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Merry-Go-Round Calvin Burnett was a graphic artist, illustrator, painter, designer and art teacher from Cambridge, MA. Merry-Go-Round depicts a young Black girl smiling in a park. Burnett crafts an limpid red merry-go-round over the girl's face.
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Friends Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs was an artist, historian, teacher and writer from St. Rose, LA. Friends is a print depiction of an interracial friendship. Two girls, one black and the other white, are sitting on a loveseat in front of a patterned curtain. This was a radical image of race relations created during the height of the Jim Crow era.