The 18th-century portrait “A Young Coachman” at Erddig, a National Trust property in north Wales, for example, now includes information on who the Black man in the painting might be.

Barack and Michelle Obama Pick Two Black Artists For Presidential Portraits in a First for Smithsonian Published Oct 16, 2017 at 11:27 AM EDT Updated Oct 16, 2017 at 11:34 AM EDT ...

The relationship between viewer and painting is wound up in racial difference, as Shadrach explains: "If the subject is looking at [the viewer] as a black man, there's an idea that there's ...

Through a miscommunication about wearing a red jacket, Richard Wilson knew it was “God’s intention” for him to paint Harold Alonza Black, Mary Blackwell Diallo and Kerry Rushin Miller. Newly ...

But the rare, pre-Civil War portrait of the formally-dressed Black man that was expected to sell for $300,000 to $500,000 was certainly the centerpiece of the selection.

Long-Overlooked Painting Reveals the Genius of a Forgotten Black Polymath Scientific analysis is correcting centuries of misconception surrounding a Francis Williams portrait. William Williams ...

Gift Livingstone Sango is ecstatic after recently discovering his father’s painting portraying Jesus as a Black man. “My father used to draw Jesus as Black because God is for all of us. He is ...