Elizabeth Catlett

Elizabeth Catlett


Elizabeth was married to Charles White.Some of her best-known prints are Sharecropper (1968 or 1970) and Malcolm X Speaks for Us (1969). Well-known sculptured pieces include Dancing Figure (1961), The Black Woman Speaks and Target (1970), and The Singing Head. The National Council of Negro Women in New York City commissioned her to create a bronze sculpture, and her bronze relief adorns the Chemical Engineering Building at Howard University. In 2003 Catlett designed a memorial to author Ralph Ellison, which stands in West Harlem, NY.

Charles White

Kerry James Marshall, Mentioned Charles White When he talked about his Art and how he was inspired by Mr. Whites work. I agree It has Detail and emotion.
From a broken home in Chicago, Ill., White found that he could draw at the age of seven. He studied violin for many years acquiring a permanent love for music. An avid reader, he once said "A book that fascinated me and opened up new vistas, was Dr. Alain Locke's The New Negro.

The Black western muesum

The 10th Cavalry

The 10th Cavalry was formed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas in 1866Very high standards of recruitment were set by the regimental commander and Civil War hero Benjamin GriersonLife at Leavenworth was not pleasant for the 10th. The Fort's commander, who was admittedly opposed to African- Americans serving in the regular army, made life as difficult as he could on the new troopers

George Frederic Watts

English painter and sculptor, 1817-1904

Medusa, originally a beautiful young woman whose crowning glory was her magnificent long hair, was desired and courted by many suitors.

Poseidon (Neptune) found her worshipping in the temple of Athena (Minerva) and raped her. Athena was outraged at her sacred temple being violated, and punished Medusa by turning her beautiful tresses into snakes and giving her the destructive power to turn anyone who looked directly at her into stone.
I throught that was wrong for Athena to be mad at Medusa and not the MAN who did the CRIME.

Michael Ray Charles is a young American painter, born in Lafayette, Louisiana. He received an MFA at the University of Houston and teaches at the University of Texas in Austin.

One Of Many negative stereotypes that African-Americans still buy into. through his painting I believe he is telling a story. Like The painting of Elvis with him having a black face.
My grandmother would see Elvis down at the corner store hanging with the black folks singing.

Phillis Wheatley

Scipio Moorhead (active c. 1773) was an enslaved African American artist who lived in Boston

Maya Angelou