Sugar Shack by Ernie Barnes
Price: $350 Lithograph/Open edition Unsigned Image size: 24″h x 34″w Paper size: 27″h x 37″w “Sugar Shack” Barnes created the painting Sugar Shack in the early 1970s. It gained international exposure when it was...
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Connecting People With Art : African American Art by Evelyn and Mercer Redcross – SOFT COVER BOOK
Price $275 -The Book Itself Not Digital. This book is currently out of print. We have only a few left. Soft cover only. Book Description: 502 Page Coffee Table Art Book This book is...
Top 7 Tips for Investing in Art
By Judy Martel, Bankrate.com Art can be a tempting investment, with its creative mystique and potential for soaring values. Attending glittering events such as the annual Art Basel Miami Beach, a four-day, celebrity-studded event...
The Art of Woodrow Nash
Born in the late 40’s in Akron, Ohio, Woodrow Nash is the product of sanctified churches, 1950’s television images, and black inner city neighborhood schools run by predominantly white middle-class educators. The young student immersed...
Empress of the Blues by Romare Bearden
Romare Bearden was born in 1911 in Charlotte, N.C. Romare Bearden lived at various times in Saskatchewan and Pittsburgh. Bearden attended Boston University and New York University. Later, he studied with the German expatriate...
Friends of African and African American Art Celebrate 50 Years At DIA
DETROIT, MI – Where were you during the summer of 1962? ‘…The Friends of African and African Art (originally-African Art Gallery Committee) formed a committee to acquire art to establish a new gallery dedicated...
Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art
Published on Nov 2, 2012 Larry and Brenda Thompson have amassed a remarkable collection of art by African Americans from around the nation. In 2009, the David C. Driskell Center at the University of...
‘Blackboard Wars’ Season Finale: Art Saves Homeless Teen Allen Lefort’s Life (VIDEO)
By OWN Life in New Orleans is rough. Eighteen-year-old John McDonogh High School student Allen Lefort ended up homeless after a series of struggles — his father’s overdose and his brother’s death among them....
MILES DAVIS
Instrumental in the development of jazz, Miles Davis is considered one of the top musicians of his era. Born in Illinois in 1926, he traveled at age 18 to New York City to...
THE PEOPLE OF KAU – ZUAR the knife bout of the Kau Nabu 2
Helene Bertha Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl (German pronunciation: [ˈʁiːfənʃtaːl]; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her...
THE PEOPLE OF KAU – ZUAR the knife bout of the Kau Nuba 1
Helene Bertha Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl (German pronunciation: [ˈʁiːfənʃtaːl]; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her...
THE PEOPLE OF KAU – TATTOOS
Helene Bertha Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl (German pronunciation: [ˈʁiːfənʃtaːl]; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her...
THE PEOPLE OF KAU – The more beautiful the mask is the more success with the girls.
Helene Bertha Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl (German pronunciation: [ˈʁiːfənʃtaːl]; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her...
THE PEOPLE OF KAU – The unusual masks of the Kau Nabu 5
Helene Bertha Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl (German pronunciation: [ˈʁiːfənʃtaːl]; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her...
THE PEOPLE OF KAU – The unusual masks of the Kau Nabu 4
Helene Bertha Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl (German pronunciation: [ˈʁiːfənʃtaːl]; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, actress and dancer widely noted for her aesthetics and innovations as a filmmaker. Her...