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the-cricket-chirps · 9 months

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Betye Saar, Rojo Toro, 1964

Betye Saar, The Beast that Pounds the Devil's Dust, 1964

#betye saar #modern art #american art #contemporary art #black artist #african american artists #african american art history #african american art #american painting #american painter #red bull #fantastic beasts #the devil #saar #animals #animals in art #animal art #petroglyphs

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jareckiworld · 3 months

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Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891-1978) "Astronauts’ Glimpse of the Earth" [acrylic on canvas, 1974]

#Alma Woodsey Thomas #african american art #black women art #geometric abstraction #optical art

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nobrashfestivity · 3 months

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Jacob Lawrence The Migration Series, Panel no. 57: The female workers were the last to arrive north. (between 1940 and 1941)

#jacob lawrence #african american art

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miamaimania · 15 days

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Kerry James Marshall's 'Vignette', acrylic / fiberglass, 2003

#portrait #acrylic #american art #kerry james marshall #fiberglass #contemporary #art #painting #african american art

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pwlanier · 1 year

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A quilt depicting snakes.

Unknown African American Maker, Quilted Bedcover, ca. 1875–1900, cotton top, linen back,

and cotton stuffing.

High Museum of Art

#american folk art #african american art #quilt #southern vernacular #textiles #incredible

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nancydrewwouldnever · 17 days

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Joyce J. Scott, Three Generation Quilt I, 1983, mixed media (Artist's Collection)

#joyce j scott #art #textile art #contemporary art #african american art #20th century #woman artist

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nemfrog · 1 year

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Quilt. Cotton and synthetic metallic knit. 85 × 77 in. (215.9 × 195.6 cm). Nettie Jane Kennedy. ca. 1955.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

#quilting #african american art #geometric design #1955 #1950s #nemfrog

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piroshky · 1 year

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Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, 2000.

#leo and diane dillon #jules verne #sci fi illustration #sci fi art #american art #african american art #book illustration #fantasy illustration #sea monsters #steampunk art #american illustration #art #illustration #my post

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image-junkie · 1 year

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Aesthetics of Funk - Crocheted mandalas by Xenobia Bailey

Xenobia Bailey is a trash alchemist, a single stitch, urban crochet aficionado, designer, artist and community activist, whose practice industrializes the visual aesthetic of “Cosmic-Funk,” practiced by African-American homemakers since Emancipation, into utilitarian “Funktional” design. Media exposure ranges from an Absolut advertisement to a design consultancy with Disney World, and a subway mosaic commission from the MTA in New York. She has shown internationally, with such institutions as Creative Time, the Sharjah Art Foundation, and numerous U.S. Embassies. Her work is held by numerous museums, as well as in academic, corporate, public and private collections.