african american painters

An illustrated biography of African American painter, Horace Pippin.

A look at the life and work of painter Robert S. Duncan, covering his childhood, friends, patrons, education, and more.

"A self-taught artist's odyssey from Jim Crow era Georgia to the Yale Art Gallery--a stunningly vivid, full-color memoir in prose and painted leather, with a foreword by Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson. Winfred Rembert grew up as a field hand on a Georgia plantation. He embraced the Civil Rights Movement, endured political violence, survived a lynching, and spent seven years in prison on a chain gang. Years later, seeking a fresh start at the age of 52, he discovered his gift and vision as an artist, and using leather tooling skills he learned in prison, started etching and painting scenes from his youth. Rembert's work has been exhibited at museums and galleries across the country, profiled in the New York Times and more, and honored by Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative. In Chasing Me to My Grave, he relates his life in prose and paintings--vivid, confrontational, revelatory, complex scenes from the cotton fields and chain gangs of the segregated south to the churches and night clubs of the urban north. This is also the story of finding epic love, and with it the courage to revisit a past that begs to remain buried, as told to Tufts philosopher Erin I. Kelly"--.

Celebrates the life of an American artist, Henry Ossawa Tanner in Paris, detailing his high devotion, travels, struggles and sacrifices, all playing a part in his success.

Readers learn more about Pippin's life as a self-taught artist and how his art, ranging from self-portraits to landscapes to domestic scenes and touching on issues like slavery and segregation, drew the attention of museums.

An exploration of the life and work of painter Alma Woodsey Thomas, covering her childhood, influence, education, and more.

A biography of twentieth-century African American folk artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who, at the age of eighty-five, drew pictures based on his memories and observations of life in Alabama.

Tells the story of Clementine Hunter, an African-American folk artist from Louisiana who decided in her middle years to become a painter, documenting scenes from her life, and attracting a great following, even though she was sometimes not allowed in the galleries to view her own exhibits.

Presents essays on twentieth-century American artist Jacob Lawrence by eight distinguished art historians, as well as a chronology of his life and career, accompanied by photos of the artist and color reproductions of his works.

Jacob Lawrence was a talented painter whose work became an important part of the Harlem Renaissance and modern art. Learn about his life, influences, and impact.