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Girl with Pomegranate, 1940, by Laura Wheeler Waring

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Charles White (American, 1918-1979, Children's Games II, 1976. Oil on paper mounted to board, 54 5/8 × 47 1/2 in. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock

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It's my 12 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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Richard Mayhew (American, 1924-2024), Departure, 2006. Oil on linen canvas, 48 x 60 in.

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Martin Puryear

A Column for Sally Hemings  2019

Cast iron, painted tulip poplar

via: Matthew Marks

Martin Puryear conceived A Column for Sally Hemings for his exhibition in the United States Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. Its fluted base echoes the Doric columns at the entry of the neoclassical building, which was directly modeled on Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia home, Monticello. As the title suggests, this work is dedicated to Sally Hemings, a woman enslaved on Jefferson’s estate and the mother of six of his children. A shackled cast-iron stake appears to have been rammed into the top of the column, drawing the flutes down with it and disrupting the column’s classical perfection. This form has been a recurring motif in recent sculptures by Puryear, including Shackled (2014) and Big Bling (2016). “A Column for Sally Hemings speaks multiple historical languages. There is that of the streaming robes that fluted columns originally meant to evoke — being, as they are, proxies for the bodies of women positioned to hold everything up, and to be seen doing this and nothing but. And there are the many languages of iron, from the colonial to the quotidian. For the black part, tightly fitted to the white, could be said to intervene upon the latter.”

—Darby English, 2019

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Bob Thompson (American, 1937-1966), The Recreation of Cephalus and Procris, 1965. Oil on canvas, 18 1⁄8 x 24 1⁄8 in.

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Daily Painting

Delilah Pierce DC WATERFRONT, MAINE AVENUE (1957)

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Toyin Ojih Odutola (Nigerian/American, 1985) - Nwanyeruwa (Aba Women's Rebellion) (2023-2024)

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Romare Bearden (American, 1911-1988), The Sea Nymph, 1977. Collage of various papers with paint and graphite on fiberboard

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Afro Lunar Lovers I, Chris Ofili, 2003

Screenprint on paper 49 x 31.8 cm (19 ¼ x 12 ½ in.)

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Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917-2000), Kibitzers, 1948. Egg tempera on masonite

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Loïs Mailou Jones, Ode to Kinshasa, 1972; Mixed media on canvas, 48 x 36 in.; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Gift of the artist

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Bill Traylor, Female Drinker, probably 1940s poster paint, pencil on cardboard 11 1/2x8 3/8"

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Wadsworth Jarrell (American, 1929), The Jocks #2, 1981. Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 68 in.

"The Jocks #2" is an expressive group portrait of five African American Kentucky Derby winning jockeys. Left to right: James "Soup" Perkins, Alonzo Clayton, Isaac Murphy, Jimmy Winkfield and William Walker. Isaac Murphy, who was the first jockey to win three consecutive Kentucky Derbys and who won more races than any other jockey, is placed center with a glowing crown around his head.

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Alma Thomas (American, 1891-1978), Tulips in Spring Sunshine, 1969. Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 26 in.

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My book is getting a paperback version on May 27th! It can be preordered now: https://www.routledge.com/Charting-the-Afrofuturist-Imaginary-in-African-American-Art-The-Black-Female/Hamilton/p/book/9780367689063

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James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney in Paris, ca. 1960 [Grey Art Museum, New York University, New York, NY. © Estate of Beauford Delaney, via Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY]