African Americans in Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

This video reviews five of the most important 19th century works at the Philadelphia Museum of Art that are created by African Americans or that tell an important story about African American life. For more of my YouTube videos about the Philadelphia Museum of Art go to: johnimmerwahr.org/projects/

Below find information on all of the objects in the video. Click on the highlights for more information
about the art works. The Philadelphia Museum of Art works discussed were all on display in March 2020 when the museum closed for the Covid-19 crisis (except for the Peale Self-Portrait in the Museum).

Music: “Mary Had a Baby,” performed by Melissa Davis and the Nathaniel Dett Chorale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54r8CLLfd94

Portrait of Yarrow Mamout (Muhammad Yaro), Charles Willson Peale, 1819
https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/319114.html

Self-Portrait in the Museum, Charles Willson Peale, American, 1822
https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/314774.html?mulR=2001452668|32

The Artist in his Museum, Charles Willson Peale, 1822, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection/item/artist-his-museum

“Old Yarrow,” James Alexander Simpson, 1822
National Portrait Gallery, on Loan from the Peabody Collection of the Washington, DC Public Library
https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_L_NPG.4.2016

Storage Jar, Dave the Potter, 1859
https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/91457.html

Portrait of Hiram Charles Monteir and Portrait of Elizabeth Brown Montier, Franklin R. Street, 1841, on loan from the collection of Mr and Mrs. William Pickens
https://philamuseum.org/exhibitions/2011/386.html

Portrait of Henry Ossawa Tanner, Thomas Eakins, the Hyde Collection, 1900
https://www.wikiart.org/en/thomas-eakins/portrait-of-henry-ossawa-tanner-1897#:~:text=Home%2F%20Artists%20%2F%20Realism%20..,Portrait%20of%20Henry%20Ossawa%20Tanner

Portrait of George Burnham, Cecilia Beaux, 1887
https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/86892.html

Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1897
https://philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/103024.html

Arrangement in Gray and Black, no. 1 “Whistler’s Mother,” James Abbot McNeil Whistler, Musée d'Orsay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistler%27s_Mother

Annunciation, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1899
https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/104384.html

Modern and Contemporary Works by African American Artists (shown at very end of the video)

Mr. Prejudice, Horace Pippin, 1953
https://philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/76592.html

Portrait of James Baldwin, Beauford Delaney, 1979
https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/92320.html

Birds in Flight, Aaron Douglas, 1927-29
https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/305565.html

“Tar Beach 2” Quilt, Faith Ringgold, 1990
https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/86892.html

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