David C. Driskell & Friends” at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville highlights Driskell’s artistic legacy and the importance of ...

After World War II, many African American painters, musicians ... and how these artists really created a Pan-African art history across Black worlds, across the Black Atlantic, from Africa to the ...

A long-running theme of U.S. black history (a panel from Jacob Lawrence's 1940-41 "Migration Series") may have to be revised. © Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence ...

In the court case known as Plessy v Ferguson (1896), the Supreme Court ruled that segregation of people based on race was legal, providing facilities were 'separate but equal'. These segregation ...

Clementine Hunter was a self-taught African American artist known for her painted depictions of early 20th-century plantation life in Louisiana. Hunter’s colorful oil paintings do not rely on ...

The Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture were created by the Smithsonian American Art Museum to assist researchers in locating American paintings and sculptures for comparative study.

The American musical art form jazz emerges in New Orleans around the advent of the 20th century. Jazz blends elements from varied traditions, including African and African American, religious ...

Located in Mizner Park, the Boca Raton Musuem of Art features more than 4,500 works. Permanent collections include African and Pre-Columbian art, 19th- and 20th-century European and American ...