The artwork of four nineteenth-century free blacks expressed in portraits, landscapes, sculpture, and photography. Links to works from Joshua Johnson, Robert Scott Duncanson, Edmonia Lewis, and Augustus Washington are provided.

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on Johnson Antonio. Antonio was a Navajo artist who, through carving secular human figures, went against traditional Native American...

Art moves fashion designers to play with unusual forms and shapes, while fashion can encourage artists to think about qualities such as texture and create art that engages with the human body. Take a look through this glossary for terms...

As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, William King is described here along with information on his contributions to art through sculptures of male subjects with long, lanky legs which he used to "explore human...