The Complete Oeuvre

Re-Presenting Art

[water-stained]

Wangechi Mutu

Untitled from Classic Profiles, 2003. Collage and watercolor on mylar.

[water-stained]

Berlinde de Bruyckere

Schmerzensmann 5, 2006. Pencil, watercolor, and ink on paper.

[water-stained]

Eva Hesse

Untitled, 1963-64. Collage, gouache, watercolor, and ink on paper.

[artmastered]

Agnes Martin, Happy Holiday, 1999

[water-stained]

Wangechi Mutu

Untitled from Classic Profiles, 2003. Collage and watercolor on mylar.

[womenofarthistory]

Tribal Women Amrita Sher-Gil 1938

[womenofarthistory]

Sleeping Venus Artemisia Gentileschi c. 1625-30 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, USA 

[victoryibril]

[sugarmeows]

Loïs Mailou Jones

[ancientart]

Native American petrograph at Calf Creek Falls, Utah, USA.

Photo taken by Sam Agnew.

[americanartluce]

Jacob Lawrence, "Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them or bear with them." —Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, VIII:59. From the Series Great Ideas of Western Man, 1958, oil on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Container Corporation of America

-Bridget

[water-stained]

Anish Kapoor

Untitled, 1990. Earth, PVA, and gouache on paper.

[water-stained]

Ellen Gallagher

Coral Cities, 2007. Ink, watercolor, gold leaf, cut paper and Plasticine on Ebony Magazine page.

[water-stained]

Gianna Commito

Quai, 2009. Watercolor and acrylic gouache on paper.

[water-stained]

Mithu Sen

On your hand – I place my hand – barely. In our hands – nothing, 2009.Watercolor, ink, applique and paper collage on paper.

[medievalpoc]

1800s Week!

skemono submitted to medievalpoc:

Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907) was a woman of African and Native American descent. Born in New York, in 1865 she moved to Rome, where she spent most of her career. She gained international renown as a sculptor, so much so that in 1877 Ulysses S. Grant commissioned her to sculpt a bust of him.

The Death of Cleopatra, 1876

Marble statue, 160.0x79.4x116.8 cm

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Old Arrow Maker, 1872

Marble statue, 54.5x34.5x34.0 cm

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Poor Cupid, 1876

Marble statue, 68.6x34.9x31.1 cm

Smithsonian American Art Museum

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[mod note]

More on Black artists living in 1800s Paris

[americanartluce]

Romaine Brooks, Ida Rubinstein, 1917, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist

-Bridget

[philamuseum]

We love multitalented artist Faith Ringgold! Created in Philadelphia, this colorfully gorgeous quilt tells the narrative of eight-year-old Cassie Louise Lightfoot’s dream of freedom and flying among the stars. Learn more about Black History Month here. ”Tar Beach 2" Quilt, 1990, by Faith Ringgold