PORTRAITS   of     NEGROS • AFRICANS • BLACKS   in ART
INTRODUCTION

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"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)
Jean-Antoine Watteau
(1684-1721)
Jean Louis Théodore
Géricault
1791-1824
PRE 20th CENTURY
PORTRAITS

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durer 1508 Hals 1628-30 Durer, Moorish Woman 1630j Rembrandt c 1630 Flinck c1639-40 velazquez 1650 Rembrandt 1661 Unknown African c1770s copley 1777 lemoine 1785 Girodet 1797 Bonoist 1799-1800 English 1800 Corinth 1884 eakins 1897


20th CENTURY
PORTRAITS

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Gilman c1905 Paul Robeson by winold Reis, pastel, 1925 Johnson 1929 Thrash 1893-1965 Harmonica Blues 1937-38 Dox Thrash Bronze print  c.1937-1938 Frederick C. Flemister, Man with Brush - self portrait - oil 1940 Benton 1941 William E. Smith b.1913 Pay Day linoleum cut 1941 Charles White Negro:USA portfolio of lithographs 1946 Beauford pastel watercolor & charcoal 1950 Catlett 1957 Douglas Aaron, Self Portrait</i> charcoal 1964 Lawrence 1965 Calvin Burnett self portrait c 1960s Abeles Black Woman drypoint 1969 Scattergood-Moore Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone - 1978 Adrian Piper 1981 Jean-Michel Self-Portrait as a Heel, Part Two 1982 Scattergood-Moore Queenie 1985 Barrington Watson, self portrait 1987 Abeles Tyrone pastel 1996 Shamek-Imin R. Weddle  ca. 1998 Assael ca1998 Anthony Ryder, Lancelot, oil on linen 1995
John Wilson MLK etching 2002 Timothy Stotz, rachel - detail 2007 Whitfield Lovell virtue II charcoal on wood & silver goblet 2002
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
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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






 

 
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