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.

“The Time Is Always Now” is a touring exhibition that originated at the National Portrait Gallery in London, where Eshun is ...

His subjects are often young black men and women ... which opened at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2015. On February 12, 2018, both Wiley and the artist Amy Sherald unveiled their official ...

He began painting his friends but struggled to get the portraits displayed in galleries ... after the death of George Floyd, ...

A museum is appealing for information on the subject of a beguiling Victorian era painting known as The Black Boy. Painted in 1844, the arresting portrait depicts a black child dressed in torn ...

For his third art ... portraits in Davis’ signature style—a distorted effect reminiscent of looking through a droplet-splashed window—portraying sharply dressed bow-tied Black men with ...