The Speed Art Museum is presenting Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris, 1900 - 1939, an exhibition highlighting the myriad ways that American women contributed to the city’s vibrant modernist ...

Amy Sherald, “Breonna Taylor” (2020), oil on linen; The Speed Art Museum ... painters such as Charles White, Laura Wheeler Waring, Archibald Motley Jr., or Barkley L. Hendricks, from ...

Amy Sherald, who painted former First Lady Michelle Obama's portrait in 2018, has a major survey of her work opening this ...

This week, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York opened the first ... In that sense, her artistic lineage can be traced to Laura Wheeler Waring and Archibald Motley, who were both ...

Johnson, Archibald Motley, and Laura Wheeler Waring. Like Sherald, these (often underappreciated) artists prioritized painting figures that reflected themselves and their communities. Amy Sherald ...