click image for close-up During the Renaissance and for many years before, occasional African slaves were imported ... The term "Moorish Woman" in the title suggests that the woman was from ...

She points to a portrait made in 1859 of an African American woman with center-parted hair, lace gloves and a look of tremendous poise, style and confidence. The woman was Rhoda Goodridge ...

He took pictures of our family and of women in my mother's hair salon ... the first that depicted African-American family life and political and social history. Soon after, she began studying ...

It included six portraits of women from various backgrounds ... She was one of the first African American women to pass the ...

To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition Votes ... The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and ...

an enslaved African who died a free man at a very old age, comes from the diary of the man who painted his striking portrait. Charles William Peale was an American portrait painter who established ...

Kehinde Wiley is a contemporary African-American painter known for his distinctive portraits. His subjects are often young black men and women, rendered in a Photorealist style against densely ...

The "Four Ways of Being" portraits invite museum visitors to explore the complex ways our histories shape our understanding. As New York locals pass through Gansevoort Street, a billboard across ...