Henry Wilmer Bannarn was an educator, sculptor, painter, sketch artist, and best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. Winter Sports is an oil painting of seven figures at a frozen pond below a town on a hill. There are four figures skating, two sitting near the lake and one watching from a short distance.
Mark Hewitt, born in Barbados, studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School. Spirit of 366th depicts a portrait of a young Black man from the 366th infantry in an Army uniform. The soldier looks into the distance of a shining light while dark hued clouds of brown, black, and purple gather overhead.
Edward L. Loper was an artist and teacher from Delaware known for his vibrant palette and juxtaposition of colors. Twelfth Street Gardens is a landscape piece illustrating a rural town under a slight cloudy, blue sky during Autumn. The piece shows three men conversing beside a field with several houses in the background.
Lois Mailou Jones was an artist and art educator known for her costumes, textile designs, watercolors, paintings and collages from Wahsinton, D.C. Egyptian Heritage presents a geneological and cultural heritage between contemporary Blacks and Ancient Egypt. Jones uses Ancient Egyptian scenes and hieroglyphics in the background.
Frederick D. Jones, Jr. was a mid-twentieth century artist from South Carolina. The Daughter of Eve depicts a woman wearing a ripped blue top, red lipstick, a snake bracelet, a red scarf, and a white magnolia in her hair. She holds a red apple, a green leaf and stares toward the viewer. Behind her is a white horse, a yellow tent and a man dancing.
Hayward Oubre was a multimedia artist and educator from Montgomery, Alabama. Equivocal Fox is an abstracted depiction of a fox using polygonal shapes. The different forms are red and blue and overlap throughout the painting. The entire artwork is painted with a bumpy texture which creates a slight relief sculpture effect.
Shirley Bolton was a painter from Athens, GA. Tenement is a multimedia depcition of the entrance to a shared housing space. The dimensional browns of the buildings indicate the age and use of the tenement space. Three cardboard pieces on top of the painted surface add texture and form to the piece.
Merton D. Simpson was an abstract expressionist painter and African art collector from Brooklyn, N.Y.. Landscape of Sumer is an abstracted of a sunny day. Simpson blends shades of yellow, orange and brown to emulate the brightness of a summer day.
Hayward Oubre was a multimedia artist and educator from Montgomery, Alabama. Flight Into Space is an abstracted perspective of a flight into space. Oubre uses shades of blue and black to display the complexities of space.
Gerald F. Hooper, Sr. was an artist from Talahasee, FL. Figures depicts 10 figures in movement. Hooper uses circles and quadrilaterals to frame the moving figures. The background is a collage of colorful wax strokes.
Leonard Jones was an artist from Winston-Salem, N.C. Cathedral is a cubist depiction of a cathedral and the town surrounding it. Jones uses a variety of light and dark colors that resembles the aesthetic of stained glass.
Harvey W. Lee Jr., born in St. Louis, MO, and he moved to Daytona Beach, FL. to teach art history professor at Bethune-Cookman College in 1952. Seascape depicts a house by the sea. The cubist painting uses intersecting stark black lines with shades of brown, green, blue and red to create a full composition.
Jewell Woodard Simon was an internationally-acclaimed artist, teacher, and poet from Houston, TX. City Slums depicts an elevated view of an urban landscape. In the middle ground is a residential area with a skyline in the background. There are several people outside in the neighborhood including a mother and child and a woman washing clothes.
Frederick C. Flemister was an artist from Jackson, GA. Man with Brush is a mannerist self-portrait depicting him in front of an arched window at an empty canvas. Outside of the window is a landscape scene featuring a lake, rolling hillsides, and mountains in the distance.
John Woodrow Wilson was a sculptor, painter, printmaker and educator from Roxbury, MA. Black Soldier depicts a soldier leaving his family to go to war. The woman and child are holding each other in front of a red brick house under a dark sky while the soldier walks away toward the Statue of Liberty while looking back at his family.
William E. Rice was an artist from Tallahassee, FL. The Capitol is a perspective painting of a residential area beside a Capitol building. In the foreground are several houses with multi-colored trees between them; in the background are larger buildings, including the Capitol, under a cloudy blue sky.
Thomas Edward Goodwin was an artist from Chicago, Ill. Self Portrait is a painting of the artist staring toward the viewer. Goodwin, wearing a yellow sweater, is in a room with neutral colors and a dark blue curtain. His saturated skin, round eyes and short black hair help to create a depiction of the artist.
Lois Mailou Jones was an artist and art educator, known for her costumes, textile designs, watercolors, paintings and collages, from Washington, D.C. Impasse De L'Oratoire Grasse depicts a dead-end market street in Grasse, France. There are several people in the piece: two smoking cigarettes, two in their windows, two shopping and one person exiting their home.
Clarence Laudric Shivers was a artist and career military man who participated in the Tuskegee Program from St. Louis, MO. The House by the Side of the Road depicts a rural home behind a picket fence. This peice conveys rural life as a man lounges on a tree while clothes dry on the line.
Henry Wilmer Bannarn was a sculptor, artist in pastel, free-form sketch and best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. Louisiana Nocturne depicts the nightlife of a rural town in Louisiana. The piece shows three couples around a two story buildign marked. Tavern Bar. The bar is between two buildings with a person on the porch of both.
William S. Carter was an abstract, landscape, still-life and figurative painter from St. Louis, Missouri. Still Life embodies its namesake by depicting a table of commonplace objects. The piece shows a teacup, two vases, one empty and the other with flowers, fruit, a feather and an empty vase on top of a haphazard cloth with a muted background.
Lois Mailou Jones was an artist and art educator known for her costumes, textile designs, watercolors, paintings and collages. Old House Near Frederick Virginia depicts a slightly dilapidated house near Frederick, VA, a county about 50 miles from Washington, D.C in watercolor. There are two children on the porch and two children and a chicken.
Charles Henry Alston was a Harlem Renaissance painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher. Farm Boy is a portrait of a young Black boy holding a hat and tool on a farm. Alston photographed Black Southern life in North Carolina when he visited rural and farm sites with a Farm Security Administration inspector.
Ernest Chrichlow was a narrative painter and illustrator from Brooklyn, NY. In 1940, he started a picture books series displaying Black children in positive roles. Paulette depicts a young Black girl playing with a toy. She is wearing overalls, a navy shirt, white sneakers and a white bow. Behind her is a Heinz Food poster with a white baby.
John T. Biggers was an educator, painter and muralist from Gastonia, NC. Young Mother depicts a woman breastfeeding her baby. The seated woman is wearing a nightgown and kerchief while caring for the baby. The baby wears a onesie as he feeds from his mother. Outside the window are various people outside of wooden homes.
