List of African-American visual artists

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Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, video art, and digital art. The entries are in alphabetical order by surname.

Artists[]

Scipio Moorhead, Portrait of poet Phillis Wheatley, 1773, in the frontispiece to her book Poems on Various Subjects
Edward Mitchell Bannister, Driving Home the Cows 1881
Harriet Powers, Bible quilt, mixed media, 1886
Henry Ossawa Tanner, Gateway, Tangier, 1912, oil on canvas, 18 7/16" × 15 5/16", St. Louis Art Museum
Charles Alston, Again The Springboard Of Civilization, 1943 (WWII African American soldier)
Larry D. Alexander,Greenville Courthouse, 1998

A–B[]

C–D[]

  • Frank Calloway (1915–2014)
  • E. Simms Campbell (1906–1971), cartoonist[1]
  • Allen 'Big Al' Carter (1947–2008)
  • Fred Carter (born 1938), cartoonist
  • Bernie Casey (1939–2017), painter[1]
  • Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012), sculptor and printmaker[2][1]
  • Nick Cave (born 1959), performance artist
  • Michael Ray Charles (born 1967), painter[2]
  • Barbara Chase-Riboud (born 1936), sculptor[1]
  • Jamour Chames (born 1989), painter
  • Don Hogan Charles (1938–2017), photographer
  • Caitlin Cherry (born 1987), painter and sculptor
  • Claude Clark (1915–2001), painter and printmaker[2]
  • Edward Clark (1926–2019), painter
  • Sonya Clark (born 1967), textile and multimedia artist
  • Willie Cole (born 1955), painter[2]
  • Robert Colescott (1925–2009), painter[2]
  • Eldzier Cortor (1916–2015), artist and printmaker[1]
  • Ernest Crichlow (1914–2005), social realist artist[1]
  • Allan Crite (1910–2007), painter[2] [1]
  • Njideka Akunyili Crosby (born 1983), painter
  • Emilio Cruz (1938–2004), painter[2]
  • Frank E. Cummings III (born 1938), woodworker
  • Michael Cummings (born 1945), textile artist
  • Ulysses Davis (1913–1990), sculptor[2]
  • Bing Davis (born 1937), potter and graphic artist[1]
  • Charles C. Dawson (1889–1981) illustrator, painter, and printmaker
  • Roy DeCarava (1919–2009), photographer[2]
  • Beauford Delaney (1901–1979), painter[8]
  • Joseph Delaney (1904–1991)[2]
  • Xiomara De Oliver (born 1967), Canadian-born American painter.[9]
  • Louis Delsarte (1944–2020), artist[1]
  • Joseph Clinton Devillis (1878–1912), painter
  • Thornton Dial (1928–2016)[2]
  • Terry Dixon (born 1969), painter and multimedia artist
  • Jeff Donaldson (1932–2004), painter and critic
  • Aaron Douglas (1899–1979), painter[2][1]
  • Emory Douglas (born 1943), Black Panther artist
  • John E. Dowell Jr. (born 1941), printmaker, etcher, lithographer, and painter
  • David Driskell (1931–2020), artist and scholar
  • Robert Scott Duncanson (1821–1872), Hudson River School[2][1]
  • Edward Dwight (born 1933) sculptor, painter, author

E–H[]

J–O[]

P–S[]

T–Z[]

  • Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937), artist[2][1]
  • Margaret Taylor-Burroughs (1915–2010)[2][1]
  • Alma Thomas (1891–1978), painter[2] [1]
  • Hank Willis Thomas (born 1976), photographer
  • Mickalene Thomas (born 1971), painter and installation artist
  • Bob Thompson (1937–1966), painter[2][1]
  • Mildred Thompson (1935–2003), abstract painter, printmaker and sculptor
  • Dox Thrash (1892–1962), printmaker, sculptor[2] [1]
  • Bill Traylor (1856–1949)[2][1]
  • Henry Taylor (born 1958), painter
  • Yvonne Edwards Tucker (born 1941), potter[32]
  • Morrie Turner (1923–2014), cartoonist
  • James Van Der Zee (1886–1983), photographer[2] [1]
  • Kara Walker (born 1969), artist[2] [1]
  • William Walker (1927–2011), Chicago muralist
  • Eugene Warburg, (1825–1859), sculptor
  • Laura Wheeler Waring (1887–1948), painter[2][1]
  • E. M. Washington (born 1962), printmaker and counterfeiter
  • Cullen Washington, Jr. (born 1972) abstract painter.[33]
  • James W. Washington, Jr. (1908–2000), painter and sculptor[1]
  • Lewis Watts
  • Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953), photographer[2]
  • Pheoris West (born 1950)
  • Charles Wilbert White (1918–1979), muralist[2][1]
  • Jack Whitten (1939–2018), painter
  • Kehinde Wiley (born 1977), painter
  • Gerald Williams (artist) (born 1941), painter
  • William T. Williams (born 1942), painter[1]
  • Deborah Willis (born 1948), photographer
  • Ellis Wilson (1899–1977), painter[2][1]
  • Fred Wilson (born 1954), conceptual artist
  • John Woodrow Wilson (1922–2015), sculptor[2][1]
  • Beulah Woodard (1895–1955), sculptor
  • Hale Woodruff (1900–1980), painter[2][1]
  • Richard Wyatt, Jr. (born 1955), painter, muralist
  • Richard Yarde (1939–2011), watercolorist
  • Joseph Yoakum (1890–1972), self-taught landscape artist
  • Kenneth Victor Young (1933–2017), painter, designer, educator[34]
  • Purvis Young (1943–2010), artist

Artist groups[]

See also[]

References[]

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