Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama. The subject matter of his paintings, installations, and public projects is drawn from African American culture and rooted in the geography of his upbringing:
greatly influenced by the African American social realist painter Charles White, a professor
Painted on Monhegan Island in Maine in August 1914, this portrait represents Florence Sittenham Davey, the wife of Bellows’s friend, the artist Randall Davey. Florence Davey was a modernist sculptor who had studied with Alexander Archipenko.
the chromatic possibilities of the set-palettes diagrammed by Harvard University professor
The Palestinian-American poet is inspired by „Falling Man“ by Max Beckmann, her mother’s teacher.
Naomi Shihab Nye Essayist, educator, and professor of creative writing at Texas
curator of northern baroque paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and professor
George Caleb Bingham was one of America’s first important painters to specialize in genre paintings, which depict scenes of everyday life. His early years were spent in Missouri, and he knew at first hand the life of the frontier, especially the comings and goings of the boatmen who ferried cargo on the great rivers of the Midwest.
Wilmerding, John, Professor Exhibition History 1851 Catalogue of Paintings Now
Author and art historian Katy Hessel on the abstract artist’s love for flowers.
But driven by her passion and at the urging of artist and professor James V.
The first exhibition to consider photography’s impact on a cultural and aesthetic movement that celebrated Black history, identity, and beauty.
curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, and Deborah Willis, university professor
This delightful painting by Jean-François de Troy, one of the leading painters in Paris in the first half of the 18th century, portrays the climactic moment from Ovid’s story in Metamorphoses —the Abduction of Europa. Jupiter has transformed himself into a handsome bull to lure the lovely princess Europa onto his back and carry her away to Crete where she would bear him three sons.
De Troy studied with his father, François de Troy, professor and then director of
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet is inspired by the French painter’s work made “in the lull before history dissolves.”
Jorie Graham Pulitzer Prize winner (1996) and the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric
Through his surrealist woodcut, Cortor considers the relationship between humans and animals and tells the stories of Black bodies.
Holland is the Townsend Ludington Distinguished Professor of American Studies in
