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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 […]

Church, Bobo, MS,

Choo Choo with His Bible, Alligator, MS,

Woe To The Temptress—Adell,

Christ Carrying the Cross,

This small painting is the companion piece to a Crucifixion dated 1494, currently in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. It is assumed to have been part of a series illustrating the Passion of Christ. The procession of the women of Jerusalem on the left acts as a chorus of lamentation. In the […]

SNCC Field Secretary (Later SNCC Chairman, Now Congressman) John Lewis and Others Pray during a Demonstration,

Christ and Lady,

Christmas Morning,

“Apostle” Pitcher,

Angel,

Little is known about this elegant angel except that it was found in Alabama. Kneeling in prayer with its arms raised in benediction, it may have been carved for a church or possibly for a sheltered area near a gravesite. It still bears the remains of its original coating of white paint.