Artists, African American

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 Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition

Artists, African American

People who made their careers in the visual arts.

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Painters and graphic artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: See Bannister, Edward Mitchell; Duncanson, Robert S.; Johnston, Joshua; Moorhead, Scipio; Tanner, Henry Ossawa.

Early-twentieth-century painters and graphic artists (before 1930): See Douglas, Aaron; Harleston, Edwin A(gustus); Smith, Albert Alexander; Tanner, Henry Ossawa; Waring, Laura Wheeler.

Mid-twentieth-century painters and graphic artists (between 1930 and 1960): See Alston, Charles Henry;Biggers, John; Crite, Allan Rohan; Delaney, Beauford; Delaney, Joseph; Evans, Minnie Jones; Hunter, Clementine Clemence Rubin; Johnson, William Henry; Jones, Lois Mailou; Morgan, Sister Gertrude; Nugent, Richard Bruce; Pippin, Horace; Porter, James Amos; Woodruff, Hale Aspacio.

Painters and graphic artists since 1960: See Andrews, Benny; Basquiat, Jean-Michel; Beardon, Romare; Catlett, Elizabeth; Colescott, Robert H.; Driskell, David; Lawrence, Jacob Armstead; Ringgold, Faith; Walker, Kara; White, Charles.

Photographers: See Ball, James Presley; Battey, Cornelius M; Farley, James Conway; Gardiner, Leon; Parks, Sr., Gordon; Scurlock, Addison; Smith, Marvin and Morgan; VanDerZee, James Augustus Joseph; Weems, Carrie Mae.

Sculptors: See Artis, William Ellisworth; Barthé Richmond; Catlett, Elizabeth; Chase-Riboud, Barbara Dewayne; Edwards, Melvin; Fuller, Meta Vaux Warrick; Hammons, David; Johnson, Sargent; Lewis, Edmonia; Prophet, Nancy Elizabeth; Puryear, Martin; Saar, Betye Irene; Savage, Augusta Christine Fells; Wilson, Fred.

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