#black american painting

[elskanellis]

in order, these are:

“Iconography/A Hopeful Truth” (2022-2023), 24k gold leaf, 22k moon gold, acrylic paint, semi-precious stones, and other mixed media on archival pigment print, 56 x 42 inches.

“Iconography/In honor of the sacred divinity that exists within us” (2023), 24k gold leaf, paper, acrylic on archival pigment print, 47 x 35 inches

“Remnants/I Was Born to Stand in the Light” (2020-2022), 24k gold leaf, paper, acrylic, other mixed media on archival pigment print, 63 x 41 inches

all images © Tawny Chatmon and via the linked article in Colossal (in OP) (08/16/2023, accessed by me 08/17/2023).

Through Gilded Portraits, Tawny Chatmon Envisions a Dazzling Future

[weepingwidar]

Rebecca Ness (American, 1992) - Bushwick Cat Shelter (2022)

[fyblackwomenart]

"1970s Black Woman" by Sebastian Star

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933) "Reading" Oil on canvas Impressionism

[marejadilla]

Aaron Westerberg, “Black Fur”, oil on linen. American artist.

[lazer-t]

Black-Billed Magpie for a $15 Ko-fi supporter

[vintagehomecollection]

Country Kitchens, 1991

[the-cricket-chirps]

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Tenor

1985

[oncanvas]

Mars Dust, Alma Thomas, 1972

Acrylic on canvas 69 ¼ × 57 ⅛ in. (175.9 × 145.1 cm) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, USA

[eirene]

The Chatterers, 1913 Harry Willson Watrous

[alexandraundone]

Peeling paint or peeling skin, how do you cover up your sins?

[ed13d1]

that life is over

painting by Loïc Le Groumellec

[weepingwidar]

Drew Dodge (American, 2001) - Apocalypse (2024)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Archibald J. Motley, Jr.., Blues, late 1920s. Oil on canvas.

Archibald Motley, Jr.’s painting captures the sights and sounds of a black-and-tan nightclub in the late ’20s, where patrons could be free from the strictures of white society. He painted this work while on a Guggenheim Fellowship in Paris but returned in 1930 to become a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance and in the lively Chicago arts scene.

Photo & text: Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

James Jebusa Shannon (1862-1923) "Lady Marjorie Manners" (1900) Oil on canvas

[marejadilla]

Aaron Westerberg, ”Amy in Black”, oil on Linen. Current Work.