This cartoonist illustrated Richard Wright’s best seller, Native Son, in addition to drawing cartoons for African American weekly newspapers.
Oliver Harrington
100
What did Robert Funcanson, America’s first African American studio artist, paint in 1948?
The Hudson River Scene Mural
100
What sculptress made the statement, “I, too can make a stone man?”
Mary E. Lewis
100
Mary E. Lewis was the first of her race and gender to be recognized as a sculptor. What was one of her creations?
Hagar in the Wilderness
100
For what is Oliver Harrington known?
“Godfather of Black Cartoonists”
200
African American artists abandoned by White philanthropists of the 1920’s were rescued by this program that allowed these artists to create murals and other works for public buildings.
Acts of Art Gallery
200
Oliver Harrington created this African American character in The Dark Laughter comic strip that appeared in The Amsterdam News in 1935.
Bootsie
200
Some of his most compelling work, such as The Banjo Lesson, was produced during the 1890’s. .
Henry Ossawa Tanner
200
In 1965, this art historian and painter was named one of “America’s Most Outstanding Men of the Arts.”
James Porter
200
He touched many topics and themes in his paintings and became the first artist to make the front page of the The New York Times.
Archibal Motley
300
Her bronze Water Boy is in the National Archives in Washington, D. C.
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
300
For what is Clementine Hunter, folk artist, known?
She is known for paintings of every day happenings in her hometown of Natchitoches, Louisiana.
300
This sculptor was the first African American to win acceptance in the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.
Augusta Savage
300
He created a series of paintings that related to a particular historic event in American history. An example of his work is The Migration Series.
Jacob Lawrence
300
He painted sophisticated landscapes and street scenes, gentle and humorous portraits, satirical caricatures, and canvases protesting the plight of African Americans.
Palmer C. Hayden
400
For what was Bill Taylor known?
An artist born a slave in 1854 who began drawing at age eighty-two. His first New York exhibit took place at age eighty-eight.
400
This cartoonist’s caricatures depicted his real life attackers’ dying horrible deaths. As a result, he was forced to leave the United States during the McCarthy era witch hunts of the 1950’s.
Oliver Harrington
400
This sculptor during the Harlem Renaissance had her group piece, Lift Every Voice and Sing, shown at the New York World’s Fair Community Arts Building.
Augusta Savage
400
What did Edward Spriggs in 1969?
The Studio Museum in Harlem
400
One of this sculptor’s notable works is Busts of Paul Laurence Dunbar.
May Howard Jackson
500
This modernist’s work has gone from abstract expressionist landscape and flower studies influenced by Van Gogh, to studies of African American life, to abstract figure studies in the manner of Rouault.
William H. Johnson
500
At the age of thirteen in 1830, he designed the frontispiece of Charles Andrew’s History of the African Free Schools. He was apprenticed to a White engraver and became an independent engraver and draftsman.
Patrick Reason
500
His major sculptures are portrait busts, including those of Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Booker T. Washington.
Isaac Hathaway
500
James Van Der Zee, photographer, received international recognition for this 1969 exhibition.
Harlem On My Mind
500
In 1927, this philanthropist established this foundation to aid African American artists. Name the philanthropist and the foundation.