Afro-Atlantic Histories
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Afro-Atlantic Histories is the title of a touring art exhibition first held jointly at the São Paulo Museum of Art and the Instituto Tomie Ohtake in Brazil in 2018. The exhibition was made up of artwo
Original 2018 exhibition catalogue, featuring Zeferina (2018) by Dalton Paula
McPherson & Oliver: The Scourged Back (1863), portrait of Gordon
John Quincy Adams Ward: The Freedman (1862-1863)
Attributed to José Montes de Oca: Saint Benedict of Palermo (c.1734)
Aaron Douglas (artist)
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Aaron Douglas was an American painter, illustrator, and visual arts educator. He was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He developed his art career painting murals and creating illustrations th
Portrait by Betsy Graves Reyneau
Into Bondage (1936) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in 2022.
Portrait of Douglas by Edwin Harleston (1930), featured in the Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lagos, Nigeria (1956)