Celebrate African American Art

John BiggersComing Home from Work 1944

New Acquisitions NicheLevel 1

American Galleries | Level 2

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Beauford DelaneyGreene Street1946

George H. Ben Johnson* Idyll of Virginia Mountains 1945

Aaron DouglasThe Prodigal Son after 1927

David DrakeDoubled-handled Jug 1840

Robert Seldon Duncanson*The Quarry (detail) ca. 1855–63

Attributed to Thomas DayDressing Bureau ca. 1855

Jacob LawrenceCatfish Row1947

Henry Ossawa Tanner*Christ and His Disciples on the Sea of Galileeca. 1910

Charles WhiteGuitaristca. 1959

Charles Ethan PorterChrysanthemums (detail) ca. 1881

Archibald MotleyTown of Hope 1927

Unidentified Enslaved PotterFace Cup 1861–62

UnknownKey Basket ca. 1830–60

Edward Mitchell Bannister*Moonlight Marine 1885

Leslie Garland Bolling*Cousin-on-Friday 1935

Attributed to Thomas Day*Center Tableca. 1850s

Elizabeth CatlettStanding Mother and Child (detail)1978

Eldzier CortorSouthern Landscape 1941

Richmond Barthé*Paul Laurence Dunbar1928

Richmond Barthé*Booker T. Washington1928

VMFA has a growing collection of works by African American artists, including these works that are on display during Black History Month.

VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF F INE ARTS

Theaster GatesGlass Lantern Slid Pavilion2011

Michael Richards Winged1999

Kehinde Wiley Willem van Heythuysen 2006

Mickalene ThomasInterior: Two Chairs and Fireplace 2011

Jack WhittenPort Au Prince: A Painting of Hope and Spirit for the Haitian People (detail) 2010

Mary Sibande** (South African)Her Majesty Queen Sophie (detail)2009

Mary Sibande** (South African)I Put a Spell on Me (detail) 2009

Mary Sibande** (South African)I Have Not, I Have (detail) 2009

Sam Gilliam Chasers: Purpled (detail)1980

Norman Lewis Post Mortem 1964

Sanford BiggersOverstood2017

21st-Century Galleries | Level 2

Rashid Johnson**The Sweet Science(detail)2011

Barkley Hendricks Sisters (Susan and Toni) 1977

iona rozeal brown**a3 blackface #592003

Julie Mehretu*Stadia III2004

Wosene Worke Kosrof My Liberty2016

Titus KapharVoiceless 2010(detail)

Charles McGill** Four Men in Formal Attire(detail)2011

Romare BeardenThree Folk Muscians 1967

David C. Driskell Homage to Romare Bearden1976

Sanford Biggers**Khemestry (detail)2017

Radcliffe BaileyVessel2012

Thornton Dial**Old Uncle Buck 2002

Norman Lewis Roseate Mist 1952

Kara Walker Untitled 1996

Carrie Mae Weems Blue Black Boy, from the “Colored People” series (detail) 1990

Jack WhittenNecklace for Mary1980

Chester Higgins The Artist’s Great-Aunt Shugg Lampley, New Brockton, Alabama1968

P.H. Polk Henry Baker1932

Lewis Galleries | Mid to Late 20th Century | Level 2

Exhibition Like a Lesson in Black History: P.H. Polk, Chester Higgins & The Black Photographers Annual, Vol. 2

Photography Gallery | Level 3

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