Malinda Seneviratne Chandika Gunasekara titled his first solo exhibition ‘Malini’. That was the name he gave his second solo exhibition as well. Malini, he said, is the name of his late grandmother.

But in the pantheon of American art, Atlanta has its own under-the-radar masterwork: Hale Aspacio Woodruff’s epic six-part mural “The Art of the Negro” which has hung for six decades in the Trevor ...