A massive oil painting featuring two of Congolese artist Sisqo Ndombe’s haunting “cracked people” welcomes visitors to the ...

Charles William Peale was an American portrait ... in Africa, brought to the American colonies on a ship, and sold into slavery in Maryland. Before Peale began his second day of painting with ...

Kehinde Wiley is a contemporary African-American painter known for his distinctive portraits. His subjects are often young black men and women ... “I believe it’s possible to hold twin desires in your ...

The National Portrait Gallery is tracing the Black figure throughout portraiture with its spring exhibition, ‘The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure’, with curator Ekow Eshun uniting ...

Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo is renowned for his innovative approach to the shaping of Black figuration, capturing the expression, style and character ...

The Georgia House of Representatives will unveil the official portrait of former State Representative and Dean of the House Calvin Smyre. His portrait will be one of only seven African American ...