LibGuides: African American Visual Arts from the Colonial Period to the Present: Websites

Recommended Websites

The following websites have been evaluated and recommended by a Reference Librarian.

Art by African Americans
A digital exhibit from the Smithsonian American Art Museum highlighting the works by African American artists in their collections.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
An exhibition at the National Gallery of Art dedicated to Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Memorial to Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment.
Collection Highlights: African American Artists
The National Gallery of Art's collection of work by selected artists, with descriptions and bibliographies.
The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art
This is the website of the Cooper Gallery at Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.
Oh Freedom! Teaching African American Civil Rights through American Art at the Smithsonian
An educational website that offers insights into the civil rights movement through the lens of Smithsonian collections. Drawing connections among art, history, and social change, Oh Freedom! Provides educators with tools to help students re-imagine and reinterpret the long struggle for civil rights, justice, and equality.
The Romare Bearden Foundation
Spellman College. Museum of Fine Arts
The only museum in the nation emphasizing art by and about women of the African Diaspora.
Thomas Day: Master Craftsman and Free Man of Color
Fully examines the extraordinary career of Thomas Day (1801-about 1861), a free African American who owned and operated one of North Carolina's most successful cabinet shops prior to the Civil War.

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