The Salem Art Association commissioned Portland-based artist Jeremy Okai Davis for the contemporary paintings.

Choosing vibrant colors for clothing and background was a process of ... One way it did that was by commissioning Davis to paint portraits of Black pioneers with long-overlooked contributions ...

Shared Visions' focuses on Black portraits, a theme that has shown up in exhibits at the PMA, Barnes, the Met, and beyond.

On the night of July 1, 1839, 53 enslaved Africans revolted aboard the slaving schooner La Amistad – Spanish for “Friendship” ...

A self-portrait of Raphael at age 23 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Raphael’s Mary Magdalene is a willowy figure standing in front of a black geometric background. She’s without her ...

A tiny portrait of Mary Magdalene by Raphael has sold at auction for $3.1 million. The delicate oil painting measures less ...

The late artist’s work has always bristled against the boundaries of categorization, and it does so particularly here, in an ...

I served as the lead historian and researcher for an exhibition where three of these portraits are now on display, “In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom ... it was in the background as ...

Garden" by Paula Drysdale-Frazell on view at Albany Center Gallery. Mari Keeler-Cornwell's "Alishan" The instaallation view ...

Mr. Karsh had given the Commons a signed print of the famed portrait, known as The Roaring ... He set Mr. Abbott against a contemporary-looking sandy background, in a brown suit and starched ...