Portraits of "Negros - "Africans"

...this page conntains paintings, drawings and prints in many styles (classical, academic, expressive, abstract) by some of the greatest artists - both white and black - depicting mostly portraits of black subjects. The images range from 16th century European to present-day American. A few highlights: Durer, Head of a Negro, 1508; Rubens, Head of a Negro, c. 1620; and Steven Assael, Head II, 1998.

SELECTED LINKS:
• ..blacks & blackness in Renaissance
• African Americans in the Visual Arts
• National Center of Afro-American Artists
   • Calvin W Burnett (1921-2007)
   • Allan Rohan Crite (1910-2007)
• AFRICAN ART | Hamill Gallery
• African-American History Throught Arts
  • Traditional African Art
  • Images of Africans in European Art (Rembrandt)
  • Pre-Civil War Art
  • Images of African-American Since Reconstruction
Henry O. Tanner | Lois Jones' Le Fetiches
  • The Twentieth Centruy
• Kelley Collection: Works on Paper
• African American History
• African-American Artists
   • Romare Bearden
   • Charles White
   • John Wilson
• Richard Yarde
• Daly Day Academy: Aristor - Notes & Comments, April 2005

PORTRAITS of	NEGROS • AFRICANS • BLACKS in ART
INTRODUCTION "ELMA LEWIS" The National Center of Afro-American Artists 300 Walnut Avenue Roxbury MA	...this page conntains paintings, drawings and prints in many styles (classical, academic, expressive, abstract) by some of the greatest artists - both white and black - depicting mostly portraits of black subjects. The images range from 16th century European to present-day American. A few highlights: Durer, Head of a Negro, 1508; Rubens, Head of a Negro, c. 1620; and Steven Assael, Head II, 1998. SELECTED LINKS: • ..blacks & blackness in Renaissance • African Americans in the Visual Arts • National Center of Afro-American Artists • Calvin W Burnett (1921-2007) • Allan Rohan Crite (1910-2007) • AFRICAN ART \| Hamill Gallery • African-American History Throught Arts • Traditional African Art • Images of Africans in European Art (Rembrandt) • Pre-Civil War Art • Images of African-American Since Reconstruction Henry O. Tanner \| Lois Jones' Le Fetiches • The Twentieth Centruy • Kelley Collection: Works on Paper • African American History • African-American Artists • Romare Bearden • Charles White • John Wilson • Richard Yarde • Daly Day Academy: Aristor - Notes & Comments, April 2005
Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)	Four Studies of a Negro Head A Negro
Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)	Three Negro Boys chalk Head of a Negro pastel
Jean Louis Théodore Géricault 1791-1824	Head of a Negro A Negro 1823-24 Young Negro Woman Study of a Man 1819 Portrait of a Negro c.1822
PRE 20th CENTURY PORTRAITS	press image to enlarge j • Durer, Head of a Negro 1508 chalk (essay) • Frans Hal: Mulatto (so called) 1628-30 • Rembrandt The White Negress 1631 etching • Govaert Flinck The Young Archer ca. 1639-40 • Velazquez: Juan de Pareja 1650 (essay) • Rembrandt Two Negros 1661 (enlarge) • Portrait of Unknown African, ca. 177cs, oil painting • John Singleton Copley Portrait of Negro 1777 • Marie Victoire Lemoine: Portrait of Zamor 1785 (enlarge) • Anne Louis Girodet Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley 1797 • Marie Guilhelmine Benoist Port. of a Negress 1799-1800 • English Portrait of a Slave in Chains ca, 1800 • Lovis Corinth: Negro ("Un Othello") 1884 oil • Thomas Eakins, Port. of Henry O Tanner c.1897 oil Jan Brueghel The Elder Study of Moor Heads [source] Anthony Van Dyck Four Negro Heads PORTRIATS & FIGURES NOT ILLUSTRATED ABOVE: • Frederic Bazille Negro Girl with Peonies • 16th century Nigeria, Edo, Court of Benin Head of an Oba, c. 1550 • Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Port. of a Negress 1800 • Jan van Biljert, Head of a Moor, etching 1635 • Durer Portrait of Moorish Woman Katharina c.1630 • Paul Cezanne, The Negro Scipio 1867 • Thomas Eakins, The Banjo Player 1877 • Thomas Eakiins, Negro Boy Dancing 1878, watercolor • Gericault at www.bridgeman.co.uk • Alexandre Georges Henri Regnault Head of a Moor, c. 1870 oil on canvas • Saint-Gaudens, Shaw Memorial (detail) 1884-1901 • Henry Ossawa Tanner, the Banjo Lesson 1893 • Velazquez, Las Meninas aka Ladies in Waiting 10'5"x9'5"
20th CENTURY PORTRAITS	press image to enlarge • Harold Gilman Study of Negro c.1905 • Winold Reiss, Paul Robeson pastel 1925 • William H Johnson Self Portrait 1929 • Dox Thrash Harnonica Blues 1937-38 • Dox Trash, Bronze Boy print c.1937-38 The African-American Mosaic • Frederick C. Flemister, Man with Brush (self portrait oil 1940 • Thomas Hart Benton, Aaron, 1941 • William E. Smiith Pay Day 1941 linoleum cut • Charles White Negro: USA 1946 litho portfolio • Beauford Delaney Self Portrait 1950 • Elizabeth Catlett Sharecropper 1957-70 woodcut • Calvin W Burnett Self Portrait ca. 1960 • Douglas Aaron, Self Portrait charcoal 1964 • Jacob Lawrence Self Portrait 1965 (NPG) • Sigmund Abeles, Black Woman 1969 drypoint • Scattergood-Moore Please Don't Talk... 1978 • Adrian Piper Self-Portrait 1981 • Jean-Michel Basquiat Self Portrait 1982 • Scattergood-Moore Queen Anne 1985 charcoal • Barrington Watson, Self Portrait oil 1987 • Sigmund Abeles Tylrone with Drawing of Renee 1996 pastel • Shamek-Imin R. Weddle ca. 1998 USA • Steven Assael, Head II 1998 • Anthony Ryder, Lancelot oil on linen, 1995 • John Wilson Martin Luther King, Jr 2002 • Timothy Stotz, Rachel (detail) oil 2007 • Whitfield Lovell Virtue II 2002 *ANDREW WYETH: CLOSE FRIENDS* \| WYETH'S BLACK MODELS** Andrew Wyeth: Study for 'A Crow Flew By', nd • And Bells on Her Toes, 1997 • Alexander Chandler, 1995 • The Drifter, 1964 • Adam, 1963 • That Gentleman, 1960 • Granddaughter, 1956 Thomas Hart Benton Negro Soldier 1942 painting by Nina Buxenbaum
	NUDES: • left: Theodore Chasseriau Nude Negro 1838 • right: John Singer Sargent Thomas E McKeller c. 1917-20 PORTRIATS & FIGURES NOT ILLUSTRATED ABOVE: • Steven Assael, Nichol 1997 pencil • Basquiat, Self Portrait • Thomas Hart Benton, Romance 1932 (study) • Thomas Hart Benton, Slaves 1927 • Harold Gilman, The Negro Gardener 1905 • William H. Johnson (1901-1970) Self Portrait ca. 1923-26 Self Portrait with Bandana 1935-38 • The Art of William H. Johnson (bio) Hank Kearsley: art studio, Newton Center MA • Winold Reiss, Portrait of Langston Hughes pastel ca.1925 • Timothy Stotz, Lancelot Bourne oil 1998 • Meredith Bergmann, Phillis Wheatley: detail of Boston Women's Memorial, 2003
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	HELEN WEST HELLER Alabama Bio-Chemist, woodcut, 1947