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Untitled (Cadmium),

Jean Michel Basquiat began his short but prolific career as a graffiti artist in the streets of New York. He adopted a deliberately street smart and seemingly naïve style, yet his art also contained sophisticated references to contemporary culture and art history. Basquiat drew his cryptic visual vocabulary from numerous sources ranging from ancient Egyptian […]

Untitled,

Soothsayer Doris Fulton, Cal. 1962,

Mwana Hiti (Female Figure),

Woe To The Temptress—Adell,

Mr. and Mrs. Hank Aaron,

Originally from Baldwyn, Mississippi, Pierce was among the millions of African Americans who left the South during the first half of the twentieth century. He settled in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1920s. Pierce, an ordained minister, turned to wood carving as a way to supplement his ministry. In 1974, after Atlanta Brave star Hank Aaron […]

Ship—Den,

Outside Looking In, Mobile, Alabama,

At Segregated Drinking Fountain, Mobile, Alabama,

Self Defense,

In Self Defense, a boy prepares a snowball, likely in response to one just launched at him. Yet the painting is not just of child’s play. In the background are advertisements for a notorious lottery scheme, a lowbrow musical rabble rouser, and an announcement for a performance of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the first staging of […]