Polk, Prentice H.

1937

Prentice H. Polk was the leading chronicler of African American life in Alabama in the twentieth century. He also captured now iconic images of countless dignitaries, including Dr. George Washington Carver, ...

Cole, Willie

1998

Two transparent glass panels installed side-by-side on a narrow wall-mounted wood shelf. The panels' tops lean against the wall. Affixed to the back of each panel are identical black and white photographic ...

Thompson, Bob

1960-1961

Driskell, David C.

1971

Duncanson, Robert S.

1865

The descendant of former slaves from Virginia, Robert S. Duncanson was born in Fayette, New York. In 1828, the family moved to Monroe, Michigan, where Robert, along with his brothers, were apprenticed ...

Edwards, Melvin

1990

Odita, Odili Donald

2001

Odili Donald Odita was born in Nigeria but grew up in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio. Abstract painting affords Odita an ideal means with which to reference his dual African and American heritage. The vectoring ...

Lawrence, Jacob

1971

This painting on paper is immediately recognizable as the stylized figuration of Jacob Lawrence. A foreshortened worktable littered with tools at the bottom foreground of the composition pulls the viewer's ...

Tanner, Henry Ossawa

About 1912

Raised in Philadelphia, Henry Ossawa Tanner went on to become one of the most successful American artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His unusual middle name derives from Osawatomie, ...

Whitten, Jack

1974

A large vertical painting on canvas, primarily black, with irregular lines of various colors (violet, crimson, gray) that run horizontally across its surface. A band of approximately 1-½ inches runs top-to-bottom ...

Marshall, Kerry James

2002

A multi-part wall mounted sculpture comprising the following three-dimensional elements: a black and white plastic cross bearing the words '16th St Baptist Church' that angles off the wall from a bracket ...