A mysterious formal portrait of an enslaved man named Frederick is expected to sell for as much as $500,000 at auction in New Orleans ...

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 ...

The unknown artist who created the portrait depicts Banneker in ... the fact that they were produced by a black man in an age when African Americans were considered incapable of scientific ...

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 ...

Macon Bolling Allen went on to become the nation's first African American judge and was a partner at the first Black-led firm in South Carolina. The portrait ... first Black man in the country ...

A massive oil painting featuring two of Congolese artist Sisqo Ndombe’s haunting “cracked people” welcomes visitors to the African American ... “Shared Vision: Portraits of the CCH Pounder ...

More than 130 free Black men and formerly enslaved ... Historical military artist Don Troiani painted the portrait, which also features 15-year-old African American sailor James Forten.

a biracial man, had just become President of The United States. Pickens believed the President’s story had significant ties to the interracial history of his own family. He contacted the museum, and ...