Your art history post for today: by African-American artist Charles Ethan Porter (1847–1923), Floral Still Life, ca. 1880-1890, oil on canvas, 16 1/8 × 20 3/8 × 13/16 inches (41 × 51.8 × 2 cm), Detroit Institute of Arts. #ArtHistory #blackart #blackartists #blackartist #BlackHistory

Information on the artist from the National Gallery of Art: ‘In 1881 Porter decided to travel abroad to continue his development as an artist…

Less than two years into his time in France, Porter’s money ran out. He wrote to Mark Twain, asking him for help. His letters to the writer are the only known first-person accounts from Porter. On April 4, 1883, he wrote:

Now I am aware that there are a goodly number of my Hartford friends and others who are anxious to see how the colored artist will make out, but this is not the motive which impresses me. There is something of more importance. The colored people—my people—as a race I am interested in, and my success will only add to others who have already shown wherein they are capable the same as other men.

Conscious of his place in an art world dominated by white men, Porter was eager to show what he, and other Black artists, could do.’

"Untitled," Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1883.

American-Canadian painter Bannister (1828-1901) was a free-born black man who became a significant figure in African-American intellectual circles of his time, as well as being a prominent abolitionist.

He was a member of the group called the American Barbizon School, which focused mainly on peaceful, pastoral landscapes painted from the life. This style fell out of favor late in his life, and by the time he passed away he was largely forgotten. He had significant financial issues when he passed, and some noted with a bit of bitterness that after his death he was the subject of a memorial exhibition and other notoriety that he should have had while alive.

In the 60s, his work was rediscovered and reappraised, and he's now viewed as one of the great Black American artists.

From the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

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@handsomeazze, Black Royalty, replied:

The original sugar shack painting is owned by #EddieMurphy.

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Question pour les artistes ! J'aimerais me faire une idée de quel prix donner aux exemplaires originaux de mes peintures
Quels prix vous donnez ? Sur quels critères ?

Question for fellow artists, I want to have an idea on how to price my original traditional art
How do you price them ? What's your criteria ?

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The OG sketch of Cu-sensei that I drew in my physical sketchbook is like 6 months old by now. 🙇🏾‍♀️

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Back when my daughter, Charlotte Adventure, was about 3 years old, I did a photo series of my daughter portraying important Black [Women] through history.

For a toddler, she ATE THIS UP! Here she is as the great #SojournerTruth, #MadamCJWalker, and #RosaParks

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