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Depressed James Reuben Reed was a painter born in Kansas City, MI. Depressed is an oil painting of a seated man wearing a tattered gray suit, a hat and black shoes. He is leaning forward, whiting a piece of wood looking toward the viewer.
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Slave Girl Mark Hewwitt, born in Barbados, studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Slave Girl is a black and white print of a young African woman standing in front of a bearded man wearing all white. The man’s hand rests on his chest and the shirtless woman wears a solemn expression looking towards the viewer.
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Head Samella Sanders Lewis, born in New Orleans in 1923, was a printmaker, painter, sculptor and art historian. Head is a print close up portrait of a face just below the chin to slightly above the front hairline. The contrast in deep shadows and light create a composition of distinctive cheekbones, a broad nose and baggy eyes.
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Ceres John Arterberry was an artist who worked in the art department at Langston University from Tallahassee, FL. Ceres depicts the Roman goddess of agriculture, grain crops and fertility looking toward the sun. Ceres wears a crown of wheat stalks, holds a pitchfork in one hand and a bouquet of poppies in the other.
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Pieta William S. Carter was an abstract, landscape, still-life and figurative painter from St. Louis, Missouri. Pieta is an interpretation of Michaelangelo's Madonna della Pietà. Carter crafts two vignettes of the Virgin Mary and her son, Jesus. The top scene is a young Mary and Jesus, and below it is Mary holding Jesus' body after his crucifixion.