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    Some of the most famous examples of African American folk art are the quilts depicting scenes from the Bible and historic events made by Harriet Powers, born into slavery in Georgia in 1837 and freed after the Civil War; they have been preserved in the Smithsonian and Boston’s Museum of Fine Art. Other notable quilts were made by generations of wom...

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    The New York-born artist Edmonia Lewis, of African American and Native American descent, studied at Oberlin College in the early 1860s and later gained fame as a sculptor. Her work included busts of Robert Gould Shaw (the Boston army colonel killed while leading Black Union Army troops in the Civil War), John Brown and Abraham Lincoln, as well as s...

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    In the years following World War I, Black visual artists produced an increasing amount of work influenced by the aesthetic traditions of Africa. One of the earliest artists to do so was Meta Warrick Fuller, who became the first Black woman to receive a federal commission for her art. Fuller’s works including the sculpture “Ethiopia Awakening” (1914...

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    The hardship of the Depression and the coming of World War II refocused African American literature and art towards social criticism, as evidenced by the work of such novelists as Ann Petry, whose 1946 novel The Streetchronicled the struggles of a working class Black woman in Harlem. In 1949, Chicago native Gwendolyn Brooks, whose work dealt with e...

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    In more recent years, many African American female artists have proved themselves unafraid of provoking controversy. In the 1970s, the artist Betye Saar played on the theme of “Aunt Jemima,” an age-old stereotype of the domestic Black woman in her work. More recently, the California-born artist Kara Walker was the subject of similar controversy ove...

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