Artists – Painters
Paul Goodnight (1946- )
Paul Goodnight is a talented painter and ceramist known for his works on hit television series. Born in Chicago on...
May 26th, 2019
Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856)
Théodore Chassériau was perhaps one of the most talented but less celebrated artists of the 19th century. Born on September...
May 25th, 2019
Collecting African American Art: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Obama Era
In the following article sociologist and African American Studies professor Patricia A. Banks describes the rise of private art collectors...
August 7th, 2017
Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918)
Grafton Tyler Brown, the most successful African American artist in the 19th Century west, lived his adult life as a...
October 16th, 2014
Simmie Lee Knox (1935- )
“Image Ownership: Public Domain” In 2004 former President Clinton’s and former First Lady Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s official oil portraits...
September 30th, 2014
Margaret Burroughs (1917-2010)
In 1961, Margaret Burroughs and her husband, Charles Burroughs founded the Ebony Museum of Chicago, later called the DuSable Museum...
September 20th, 2008
Warren Buck (1946- )
Warren Buck was Chancellor (now Emeritus and professor) of the University of Washington, Bothell (UWB), in Snohomish County, from June...
August 22nd, 2008
Horace Pippin (1888-1946)
Horace Pippin, a soldier in World War I and later a painter, was born on February 22nd, 1888 in West...
July 2nd, 2008
Robert S. Duncanson (1817-1872)
Robert S. Duncanson was a landscape and portrait painter born in northern New York in 1817. His father was Scottish...
June 4th, 2008