There is little doubt that historical racism has influenced the content and composition of several famous figurative paintings ... the image of a black child chained to a horse and cart as ...

It’s 2019 in Washington, D.C., and Theo is changing his art-history dissertation after finding a painting of a horse in his neighbor’s giveaway pile. He is 26 years old, a Black Londoner (his ...

Could the Black cowboy pictured in “Getting the Bag” (2024) be a comment on an oft-forgotten part of African-American history? (While popular culture would have you believe ranching and horse ...

In it a Black cowboy gives his thirsty horse a drink of water ... in the exhibit “Icons of American Art.” Some of Blackshear’s drawings and two of his painting studies are still up at ...

Among the rhinos, wild cattle, and other animals, they sketched a white horse with black spots ... three [colors] are also seen in cave paintings. Cave art is more realistic than often suggested." ...

"It's an unbelievably energetic, beautiful sort of thing, in which a black horse whose body ... at the National Gallery of Art 20 years later, he remembered the painting and set out to acquire ...

Mr. Stella became art-famous not long after graduating from Princeton in 1958, and he has been lauded for achievements like his early Black Paintings ... s “The Beach Horse” (1959).

What he mainly reveals is a new level of maturity and ambition in his already distinguished art, with its layered view of Black life and culture in America. Whereas much of his previous paintings ...