African-American art is a broad term describing visual art created by African Americans. The range of art they have created, and are continuing to create, over more than two centuries is as varied as
Edmonia Lewis was commissioned to do President Grant's portrait, c. 1870.
Augusta Savage with Realization, her WPA Federal Art Project, 1938.
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was Rodin's protegee, 1910.
Engraving of a chained female slave by Patrick H. Reason, 1835. Often circulated with the caption "Am I not a woman and a sister?"
African-American culture, also known as Black American culture or Black culture in American English, refers to the cultural expressions of African Americans, either as part of or distinct from mainstr
African-American art
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African American slaves in Georgia, 1850
Band rehearsal on 125th Street in Harlem, the historic epicenter of African-American culture. New York City is home by a significant margin to the world's largest African-American population of any city outside Africa, at over 2.2 million. African immigration to New York City is now driving the growth of the city's African-American and African population.
Zora Neale Hurston was a prominent literary figure during the Harlem Renaissance
Jazz pianist Thelonious Monk in 1947