Light and color take center stage in this soul illustration of the Oklahoma landscape where Echohawk and his family have lived for generations.
Postwar figurative art
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
Charles Sebree expresses his inner self in The Mystic.
Charles Sebree, The Mystic
An abstract painting, a collage, three musicians, two guitars and a banjo.
Romare Bearden, Three Folk Musicians
Is the bird real or imagined?
Thelma Streat, Girl with Bird
"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 ...
There is no open road
Tooker, Highway
Politics, experience, and humanity on the streets of 1970s New York
Faith Ringgold, Ben
Museum visitors often mistake this sculpture for a real person
Duane Hanson, Executive, originally titled, Another Day
From the Manhattan Project to nursery rhymes, a collision of art and science.
Jess, If All the World Were Paper ...
Does the figure emerge from the stripes of the flag, or do they imprison him?
Benny Andrews, Flag Day
Faith Ringgold’s Dancing at the Louvre is all about breaking the rules, and having lots of fun while doing it.
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