Historically, people in the African Diaspora were treated by European painters as props or scenery rather than as subjects, so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of ...

click image for close-up All that is known of Yarrow Mamout, an enslaved African who died a free man at a very old age, comes from the diary of the man who painted his striking portrait.

Kehinde Wiley is a contemporary African-American painter known for his distinctive portraits. His subjects are often young black men and women, rendered in a Photorealist style against densely ...

I first became aware of the Montier family history back in 2009 when the portraits of Hiram and Elizabeth Montier came to The Philadelphia Museum of Art. The paintings were placed on loan from Mr. and ...