Smithsonian American Art Museum / Gift of the Harmon Foundation The African American artist William H. Johnson (1901-1970) had been painting expressionist landscapes in Europe for more than a ...

Founded in 1868, the structure has stood as a beacon of African American art and culture for over 150 years, holding one of the most comprehensive collections of African, African American ...

says Eleanor Jones Harvey, a senior curator here at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). She points to a portrait made in 1859 of an African American woman with center-parted hair ...

Despite the setback of Covid-19, the number of art fairs worldwide grew to a staggering ... past to their countries of origin. Where African American artists recover their roots, a reverse ...

“Elizabeth Catlett was a Mexican citizen for most of her life,” said Dalila Scruggs, Augusta Savage Curator of African American Art at SAAM and the exhibition’s co-curator. “She is ...