Artists & Sculptors Collection
Black History-White Artists-Black Models
"One of the central aims of "Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today," which is currently up at Wallach Art Gallery, is to recognize the centrality of black women in the French artistic canon. One under-acknowledged figure of the Parisian art world was Aïcha Goblet...
Dana King
“It Makes One Speechless”: 350 Sculptures Invoke First Enslaved Africans
Dana King’s sculptures surround a plinth in San Francisco that formerly held a statue of Francis Scott Key, an anti-abolitionist.
by Emily Wilson / Hyperallergic
July 4, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO — On a recent Friday morning, Dana King drove across the Bay Bridge from her home in Oakland to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to check on “Monumental Reckoning,” 350 sculptures she created to represent the first Africans kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1619.
David C. Driskell (1931 – April 1, 2020)
Highly regarded as an artist, scholar, and curator, David Driskell is cited as one of the world’s leading authorities on African American Art. He has been the recipient of ten honorary doctoral degrees and has contributed significantly to scholarship in the history of art on the role of Black artists in America...
Ernie Barnes
Ernie Barnes credits his mother not only with guiding him toward formal scholastic education but also with being the source of his internal psychological balance that gave him the scope to excel as an artist. Time and time again, Barnes names emotional insight as the key to artistic greatness.
Ernie Barnes
Ernie Barnes is one of the best known African American artists. He played professional football before devoting himself to art. He gained national and international popularity with his painting "Sugar Shack" which appeared on the television show "Good Times" and a Marvin Gaye album. Today, his ‘mannerist’ painting style has been copied by numerous young Black artists.
Harry Roseland's "To the Highest Bidder"
This is the painting that Oprah has in her hallway that she mentions in interviews as keeping her grounded.
"According to a segment shared widely by CNN, during the opening of the exhibit last week, Winfrey said that she keeps a 6-foot painting of an enslaved woman on the auction block holding her daughter’s hand placed prominently in her home so that amid all of that opulence she remains grounded.
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