#black history museum

[peepthevisuals]

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Washington DC, Summah 2022.

#black history #black art #museum #black history museum #artwork

[flowersforfrancis]

#red academia #dark academia #romanticism #chaotic academia #books and literature #academia #classic academia #dark romantica #aesthetic #the secret history #dark romanticism #museums #art galleries #black coffee #academia aesthetic #brown academia #city academia #the queen's gambit

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Charles Ethan Porter (1847-1923) "Untitled (Cracked Watermelon)" (c. 1890) Oil on canvas Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States

Porter was among the first African American artists to exhibit his work nationally and the only one to specialize in still lifes. The painting's subject—originally an African gourd brought to the New World by seventeenth-century Spaniards and cultivated by colonists—is significant. Porter chose to paint a watermelon, an earlier symbol of American abundance—and during the Civil War period one particularly associated with free Blacks—when it was increasingly defined by virulent stereotyping. By reclaiming the subject in artistic terms, Porter challenged a contemporary racist trope.

#paintings #art #artwork #still life painting #watermelon #charles ethan porter #oil on canvas #fine art #the metropolitan museum of art #the met #museum #art gallery #american artist #african amerian artist #black artists #history #art analysis #freedom #fruit #fruits #food #1890s #late 1800s #late 19th century

[qupritsuvwix]

#trayvon martin #black history museum #memorial #tributes

[amnhnyc]

This archival image, snapped circa 1899, depicts paleoartist Charles Knight working on a scale model of the dinosaur Stegosaurus. In life, this species could measure 28 ft (8.5 m) long and weigh about 6,000 lbs (2,720 kg). But when this animal was discovered, paleontologists were surprised to find that its skull—and brain—were disproportionately small. In fact, some scientists thought this massive herbivore must have had a "second brain" near its hips that controlled the back half of its body. Turns out, Stegosaurus did manage with just one relatively small brain.

Photo: Image no. 327667 / © AMNH Library 

#amnh #museum #dinosaur #paleontology #science #natural history #stegosaurus #archives #black and white photography

[alwaysbewoke]

McCarty was born on March 7, 1908, in Shubuta, Mississippi. She was raised in nearby Hattiesburg by her aunt and grandmother. McCarty, who never married and had no children, lived frugally in a house without air conditioning. She never had a car or learned to drive, so she walked everywhere, including the grocery store that was one mile from her home. When she was 8 years old, McCarty opened a savings account at a bank in Hattiesburg and began depositing the coins she earned from her laundry work. She would eventually open accounts in several local banks. By the time McCarty retired at age 86, her hands crippled by arthritis, she had saved $280,000. She set aside a pension for herself to live on, a donation to her church, and small inheritances for three of her relatives. The remainder—$150,000—she donated to the University of Southern Mississippi, a school that had remained all-white until the 1960s. McCarty stipulated that her gift be used for scholarships for Black students from southern Mississippi who otherwise would not be able to enroll in college due to financial hardship. Business leaders in Hattiesburg matched her bequest and hundreds of additional donations poured in from around the country, bringing the total endowment to nearly half a million dollars. The first beneficiary of McCarty’s largesse was Stephanie Bullock, an 18-year-old honors student from Hattiesburg, who received a $1,000 scholarship. Bullock subsequently visited McCarty regularly and drove her around town on errands. In 1998 the University awarded McCarty an honorary degree. She received an honorary doctorate from Harvard University, and President Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Citizens Medal. McCarty died of liver cancer on September 26, 1999, at the age of 91. In 2019 McCarty’s home was moved to Hattiesburg’s Sixth Street Museum District and turned into a museum.

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#oseola mccarty #philanthropist #university of southern mississippi #scholarship #black students #financial hardship #hattiesburg #mississippi #honorary degree #harvard university #presidential citizens medal #sixth street museum district #women's history month #history #black history

[afterreight]

The Wodaabe People - Nigeria

#nigeria #aesthetic #photography #jewelry #jewellery #fashion #style #runway #couture #culture #museums #history #black #africa #black tumblr

[fallbabylon]

Pictures from this year's Black Shuck Festival- Black Shuck

In English folklore, Black Shuck, Old Shuck, Old Shock, or simply Shuck is the name given to a ghostly black dog that is said to roam the coastline and countryside of East Anglia- Bungay, UK

#folklore #occult #gothic #goth #history #black shuck #padfoot #barghest #dog #myth #legend #festival #customs #traditions #folk horror #haunted #art #folk art #museum #shop #bungay #black shuck festival #costume #wolf

[luxus-aeterna]

Iridessence by Kelly Lenza for Selkie

#dark academia #black dark academia #vintage aesthetic #antique aesthetic #light academia #poc dark academia #black cottagecore #art museum #art history #art academia #art aesthetic #soft black women #soft black girls #mignonne #2022 #blue #brown

[artejoke]

Love long and prosper

Emil Doerstling, Prussian love happiness, 1890, Deutsches Historisches Museum

Prussian army bandmaster Gustav Albrecht Sabac el Cher and his wife Gertrude Perling

#art history #art history memes #dad jokes #punny #puns #punsarelikeonions #art meme #women in art #museum nerd #black history month #poc in art history #valentines day #star trek

[my18thcenturysource]

His Name Was Bélizaire

The names and histories of black people, especially enslaved people, are really hard to find in traditional documentation. The work made by Jeremy K. Simien when acquiring this painting and then have it restored and researched is incredible, since he got to not only have it attributed to the French artist Jacques Amans but finding the name of the formerly erased enslaved teenager in the painting: Bélizaire.

It was acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and this fall will be on view in Gallery 756 of the American Wing.

"Bélizaire and the Frey Children", ca. 1837, Jacques Aman (attributed). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

You can read more about this painting here:

"An 1837 Portrait of an Enslaved Child, Obscured by Overpainting for a Century, Has Been Restored and Acquired by the Met", Artnet, August 15 2023.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Acquires Important Painting Attributed to Jacques Amans, Met Museum, August 14 2023.

#art #19th century #black history #new orleans #19th century art #met museum #Youtube

[pointandshooter]

National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC

photo: David Castenson

#black and white photography #abstract photography #national museum of african american history & culture #washington dc #photographers on tumblr

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Alexandre-Jean Dubois-Drahonet (1791-1834) "Portrait of Achille Deban de Laborde" (1817) Oil on canvas Located in the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States Painted during the Bourbon restoration, this portrait depicts the son of a fallen Napoleonic hero during a time of anti-imperialism in France. Eight-year-old Achille wears a miniature version of the embroidered Hussar uniform his father, Baron Jean-Baptiste Deban de Laborde, would have worn. His father’s military awards, notably the ceremonial sword and Légion d’honneur hanging in the upper left, surround the young boy. Achille would ultimately rise to the rank of colonel in the French cavalry.

#paintings #art #artwork #genre painting #male portrait #alexandre jean dubois drahonet #oil on canvas #fine art #clark art institute #museum #art gallery #french artist #portrait of a boy #history #aristocracy #serving looks #he ate #clothing #clothes #red #black #boots #swords #weapons #weaponry #1810s #early 1800s #early 19th century

[reasoningdaily]

My family has a museum on River Road in Gonzalez Louisiana. the history will make you run through the fields running and crying. the bloody river road will never leave my memory..

#River Road African American Museum #River Road #Gonzalez Louisiana #louisiana #plantations #murder of Enslaved #Black History Matters #Black Lives Matter #Charles DesLonde #Kathy Hambrick #Hambrick Mortuary

[fashionsfromhistory]

Hooded Cloak

1780-1790

Fabric from Colmar, Alsace, France

Royal Ontario Museum (Object number: 972.311.1)

#cloak #outerwear #fashion history #historical fashion #ancien regime #french revolution #18th century #black #cotton #france #floral #flower print #up close #red #blue #royal ontario museum #popular

[lionofchaeronea]

A woman dances to the accompaniment of krotala (ancient castanets). Attic black-figure skyphos of the Pistias Class, after the manner of the Haimon Painter; first quarter of the 5th century BCE. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

#classics #tagamemnon #Ancient Greece #art #art history #ancient art #Greek art #Ancient Greek art #vase painting #skyphos #black-figure #Pistias Class #Haimon Painter #Metropolitan Museum of Art