The Complete Oeuvre

Wangechi Mutu

Berlinde de Bruyckere

Eva Hesse

Wangechi Mutu

Native American petrograph at Calf Creek Falls, Utah, USA.

Jacob Lawrence, "Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them or bear with them." —Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations, VIII:59. From the Series Great Ideas of Western Man, 1958, oil on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Container Corporation of America

Anish Kapoor

Ellen Gallagher

Gianna Commito

Mithu Sen

1800s Week!

skemono submitted to medievalpoc:

Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907) was a woman of African and Native American descent. Born in New York, in 1865 she moved to Rome, where she spent most of her career. She gained international renown as a sculptor, so much so that in 1877 Ulysses S. Grant commissioned her to sculpt a bust of him.

The Death of Cleopatra, 1876

Marble statue, 160.0x79.4x116.8 cm

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Old Arrow Maker, 1872

Marble statue, 54.5x34.5x34.0 cm

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Poor Cupid, 1876

Marble statue, 68.6x34.9x31.1 cm

Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Romaine Brooks, Ida Rubinstein, 1917, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist