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    27 Famous Black Painters You Should Know About

    • The son of a slave and white man, Joshua Johnson was freed after his father purchased him from the man who owned Johnson’s mother. He settled in Baltimore as an adult and began painting portrait… See more

    Jean-Michel Basquiat

    Jean-Michel Basquiat started his meteoric rise to fame as a graffiti artist. He ended up as a figurehead of the Neo-Expressionist art movement of the 1980s and one of the most famou… See more

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    Henry Ossawa Tanner

    While Joshua Johnson was the first African American artist to make a living as a painter, Henry Ossawa Tanner broke the fame barrier, becoming the first black painter to g… See more

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    Kehinde Wiley

    Kehinde Wiley rose to fame upon receiving the commission to paint the presidential portrait of President Barack Obama. Wiley paints portraits of black people, often painting the… See more

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    Kara Walker

    Kara Walker’s prolific life as an artist started in California, where she lived a relatively idyllic life. Upon moving to Georgia with her family at age 13, she encountered real racism for t… See more

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    Who was the first black artist to make a living?
    While Joshua Johnson was the first African American artist to make a living as a painter, Henry Ossawa Tanner broke the fame barrier, becoming the first black painter to gain international renown. He lived in France for much of his life (though he grew up in Pittsburgh), even selling a painting to the French government.
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