Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama. The subject matter of his paintings, installations, and public projects is drawn from African American culture and rooted in the geography of his upbringing:
greatly influenced by the African American social realist painter Charles White, a professor
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Allegory of Peace, pen and brown ink and wash on blue laid paper; laid down, Gift of Professor
A team of scholars led by dean emerita Elizabeth Cropper and professor Lorenzo Pericolo
The first pictures of marshlands by Martin Johnson Heade featured the environs of Newbury and Newburyport, Massachusetts, near the mouth of the Merrimack River. Perhaps attracted by John Greenleaf Whittier’s poetry that celebrated the local landscape or more likely drawn there by his acquaintance with Bishop Thomas March Clark of Newburyport, Heade discovered the area sometime around 1859.
Associated Names Wilmerding, John, Professor Exhibition History 2004 American
The Palestinian-American poet is inspired by „Falling Man“ by Max Beckmann, her mother’s teacher.
Naomi Shihab Nye Essayist, educator, and professor of creative writing at Texas
curator of northern baroque paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and professor
The first exhibition to consider photography’s impact on a cultural and aesthetic movement that celebrated Black history, identity, and beauty.
curator of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, and Deborah Willis, university professor
Through his surrealist woodcut, Cortor considers the relationship between humans and animals and tells the stories of Black bodies.
Holland is the Townsend Ludington Distinguished Professor of American Studies in
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet is inspired by the French painter’s work made “in the lull before history dissolves.”
Jorie Graham Pulitzer Prize winner (1996) and the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric
Author and art historian Katy Hessel on the abstract artist’s love for flowers.
But driven by her passion and at the urging of artist and professor James V.
