Thomas takes inspiration from both the 1969 moon landing and her backyard garden
Postwar American art
A plaster cast of a manhole cover from the streets of Manhattan is a testament to this artist's experimental use of materials
Sari Dienes, Star Circle
Light and color take center stage in this soul illustration of the Oklahoma landscape where Echohawk and his family have lived for generations.
Brummett Echohawk, An Island of Redbuds on ...
Bright red fringe, a pheasant and macaw feather fan, trade blankets—these meticulous details shine in this painting of a member of the Native American Church.
Ruthe Blalock Jones, Medicine Woman
Stripes of industrial spray paint on this canvas recall the industrial city and undersides of highways
Hedda Sterne, Number 3—1957
Lewis leaves behind the figure for abstracted fragments at the end of World War II
Norman Lewis, Untitled
Sam Gilliam trespasses the distinction between painting and sculpture
Sam Gilliam, Purpled (Chasers Series)
Gee's Bend quilts challenge notions of what is — and what is not — modern art.
Gee’s Bend, quilting over generations
Charles Sebree expresses his inner self in The Mystic.
Charles Sebree, The Mystic
Delaney celebrates the famous opera singer Marian Anderson as a modern icon of Black excellence and civil rights
Beauford Delaney, Marian Anderson
Rauschenberg's Signs is a montage of iconic symbols of 1960s culture
Robert Rauschenberg, Signs
Is the bird real or imagined?
Thelma Streat, Girl with Bird
Audrey Hepburn emphatically reproduced by Avedon.
Richard Avedon, Audrey Hepburn, New York, January ...
García Uriburu’s Coloration of the Grand Canal, Venice was a playful and innovative approach to painting that involved dying the Venice canals green.
Nicolás García Uriburu, Coloration of the Grand ...
"He enlarges private life and makes it public, catching the most touching, the most revealing, the most hidden moment ..."
Lin Tianmiao on Alex Katz’s Black and ...
"He allows us to see just a few things, and the narratives that we're able to build as a result is what really makes this work so important."
Rashid Johnson on Robert Frank’s The Americans
"To use the whole social fabric of our society as a point of departure for abstraction reanimates it, dusts it off."
Mark Bradford on Clyfford Still
Contemporary artist LaToya Ruby Frazier discusses the dignity and complexity given a Harlem gang leader in this photographic portrait
LaToya Ruby Frazier on Gordon Parks’s Red ...
The episode reveals how such approaches by the press can override and contaminate the subjects portrayed.
How Photographs of Poverty in the Americas ...
Photographer Richard Mirach recounts his work, from his early political aspirations in the 1970s to his current series about left-behind artifacts along the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
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