Sentences with phrase «century african american»

June 27 — Oct. 12, 2014 Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia San Antonio collectors Harmon and Harriet Kelley have assembled a robust representation of 20th century African American art.

Candice Lin's exhibition «A Hard White Body» has a bold premise: interweaving the stories of 20th century African American writer James Baldwin and 19th - century French botanist Jeanne Baret.

2014 Beyond the Spectrum: Abstraction in African American Art, 1950 - 1975, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY RISING UP / UPRISING: Twentieth Century African American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY From the Margins: Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue from the Collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr., Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC

2006 Building Community: The African American Scene, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY 2006 - 08 Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; Meadows Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, England; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy Syncopated Rhythms: 20th - Century African American Art from the George & Joyce Wein Collection, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA

It is a sight to see such a wide selection of the Elizabeth Catlett's images from 1946 to 2001, on subjects spanning the arc of 20th century African American history and culture.

EBONY AND JET, the historic magazines that reported on 20th century African American artists and inspired the work of a new generation of contemporary artists, have been sold to Clear View, a black - owned private equity firm.

It is a sight to see such a wide selection of the artist's images from 1946 to 2001, on subjects spanning the arc of 20th century African American history and culture from slavery, civil rights, and black power and pride to portraits of African American women and families.

For the photograph Jaamburr, an 18th - century African American coinage meaning «free black,» Simmons photographed a college - aged man sitting up in bed, pen in hand, writing in a notebook.

NEH awards $ 173,833 grant to VMFA to digitize Louis Draper archive Project will enhance access to works by leading 20th - Century African American artist The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts a $ 173,833 grant to digitize, preserve and share its archive of photographs, negatives and other materials from Richmond - born...

Making History: Twentieth Century African American Art offers a fascinating glimpse at artistic production and patronage associated with the renowned Barnett Aden Gallery, operating in Washington, D.C., from 1943 to 1969.

This exhibition surveys twentieth - century African American artists from the South, restoring their identities and drawing in examples that range from stunning abstract compositions to brilliantly - conceived tributes to cultural icons like Jackie Robinson.

Weschler's Auctioneers September 19th Capital Collections Estate Auction begins its 2014 - 2015 season by featuring an important selection of 20th century African American works of art cultivated from prominent Washington, D.C. collections.

Benny Andrews is in good company in Colin Gleadell's look at 20th Century African American artists at Frieze London.

2005 Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Alison and Lezley Saar, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; Pasadena Art Center, Pasadena, CA; San José Museum of Art, San José, CA; Palmer Art Museum, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England; New Art Gallery, Warsall, England Eye Contact, American Painting and Drawing, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Syncopated Rhythms: 20th Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA Art of Engagement, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA How American Women Artists Invented Postmodernism: 1970 — 1975, Mason Gross School of the Arts Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

2013 Etched in Collective History, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL Reflections: African American Life from the Myrna Colley - Lee Collection, International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA; Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL Seismic Shifts: Ten Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture, National Academy Museum, New York, NY We Hold These Truths..., Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY The Lunder Collectiom: A Gift of Art to Colby College, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME 2014 Witness: Art and Civil Rights in The Sixties, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH; The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX 17 @ 70 +, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA Venus Drawn Out: 20th Century Drawings by Great Women Artists, The Armory Show Modern, New York, NY RISING UP / UPRISING: Twentieth Century African American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY Shared Vision: The Myron and Anne Jaffe Portenar Collection, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Lucy Mensah is a recent graduate of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, where she earned a Ph.D. in English, with a focus on 20th - century African American literary and visual culture.

Pomegranate has promoted the work of 20th century African American artists for years, selling products such as books, bookmarks, notecards, and calendars.

The Portland, Ore. - based company produces art books, calendars and gift products and for more than a dozen years has collaborated with the gallery on wall calendars showcasing works by 20th century African American artists including Cortor, whose stately and graceful images often celebrate the black female figure.

Furthermore, it would be valuable to compare the techniques and subject matter of Bourne's work with that of the handful of 20th century African American female printmakers whose work still exists today.

Building Community consists of paintings and works on paper by a select group of influential figures of 20th century African American artist including Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Eldzier Cortor, Allan Rohan Crite, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Aaron Douglas, Robert S. Duncanson, Allan Freelon, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee - Smith, Norman Lewis, Horace Pippin, William Edourd - Scott, Henry Ossawa Tanner, James VanDerZee and Hale Woodruff.

2005 Syncopated Rhythms: 20th Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA Eye Contact: Painting and Drawing in American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, LLC, New York, NY The Collector's View, Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ

2014 RISING UP / UPRISING: Twentieth Century African American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY The Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

His research interests include 20th century African American history, gender and sexuality studies, and black cultural studies.

Romare Bearden created a rich and invaluable perspective on mid — twentieth century African American life.

For many 20th century African American arts and cultural figures, the legacy of slavery and the Civil War defined career, influenced private life, and left lasting emotional issues to resolve as they endeavored to reclaim their culture and imagery.

1996 Twentieth Century African American Art from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Walker, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK

2005 The Chemistry of Color: The Harold A. and Ann R. Sorgenti Collection of Contemporary African - American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC Syncopated Rhythms: 20th Century African American Art from the Collection of George and Joyce Wein, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA

2014 Venus Drawn Out: 20th Century Drawings by Great Women Artists, The Armory Show Modern, New York, NY Beyond the Spectrum: Abstraction in African American Art, 1950 - 1975, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY RISING UP / UPRISING: Twentieth Century African American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY The Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA Conversations: African and African American Artworks in Dialogue from the Collections of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr., Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC Prospect.3: Notes for Now, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

2005 Syncopated Rhythms: 20th Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA

2014 Witness: Art and Civil Rights in The Sixties, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY,; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH; The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX Beyond the Spectrum: Abstraction in African American Art, 1950 - 1975, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY RISING UP / UPRISING: Twentieth Century African American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY

2005 Syncopated Rhythms: 20th - Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA

Related Exhibitions: Making History: 20th Century African American Art, Race, Place & Identity, and Visions from the Congo: Ancestral Contact

2005 Syncopated Rhythms: 20th Century African American Art from the George & Joyce Wein Collection, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA

This exhibition illustrates the profound impact of Africa's art and rich history on twentieth - century African American artists.

«As a twenty - first - century African American artist,» he says, «when I look back at Abstract Expressionism, I get the politics, I get the problems, I get the theories, I can read [Still's] manifestos, but I think there are other ways of looking through abstraction.

Several African American artists including Benny Andrews, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold and Charles White are known for their depictions of major events in 20th century African American history and, more specifically, interpretations of the conditions and social issues faced by their communities during the Civil Rights Movement.

VMFA Acquires Paintings by Important 20th Century African American Artists Eldzier Cortor and Palmer Hayden

The Hunter House is an example of the Italianate style and was built by a successful 19th - century African American businesswoman.

Twentieth - century African American artists, activists, and other change agents, who might not be familiar to kids today, visit a young girl's home in this rich poetic and visual tribute.

This excellent, richly illustrated biography tells the story of Madame C. J. Walker, a turn - of - the - century African American entrepreneur.

She was born 121 years ago today, and we're taking a moment to pay tribute to one of the most pivotal figures in 20th century African American history: a true trail - blazer who, in spite of the insurmountable odds against her, managed to make her own mark in Jim Crow America — and she did so with both her dignity in - tact and an overwhelming sense of self worth.

Expose of John Kerry's Jane Fonda period Dedication: is dedicated to the American veterans of the Vietnam War, who served with Nineteenth Century African American soldiers who served in the Western United States have generally been known a «Buffalo Soldiers.»

Not exact matches

In the election of an African - American president less than a half - century after the end of official racial segregation in much of the country, these Americans see the triumph of the values enshrined in the US Constitution over America's legacy of social, political, and economic prejudice.

Wilson is the author of The Pittsburgh Cycle, 10 plays set in each decade of the 20th century depicting the lives of African Americans.

As you're probably well aware, Oprah is the richest African American of the 21st century, and with a net worth of over $ 3 billion, she is regarded as arguably the most influential woman in the world.

So, it shouldn't be a surprise that the «Richest African - American of the 20th Century» has plenty of words of wisdom for aspiring entrepreneurs.

Duarte pointed to her group's efforts to get Facebook to crack down on affinity targeting in ads, for example, routing ads related to homebuying away from minority groups — a social media ad version of the unfair mortgage and real estate industry practices that made homebuying for African Americans difficult for much of the 20th century.

She has been ranked as one of America's richest woman, the first African - American billionaire and the wealthiest African - American of the 20th century.

The most extraordinary Christian growth over the past century has come in Africa: home to 8.7 million Christians in 1900, 542 million today, and perhaps 1.2 billion by 2050, when there will be as many African Christians as Latin American and European Christians combined.

Europeans killed Native Americans, Native Australians, caused ww1, ww2 (killed their own kind like no other), killed Mayans, killed Jews (holocaust), killed about every race on earth, slavery, bombed vietnam, laos, cambodia, multiple south American nations, African Nations, kill millions in Iraq, Afghanistan with carpet bombing, cluster bombing, napalm, drone bombing and Im not going to go to colonialism for centuries.