He took pictures of our family and ... Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian, May 1999). In 1992 Willis moved to Washington, D.C. to help develop an African-American museum for ...

You can now view the "Portrait of Leana and the Lambeth Children" in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA)'s American art ...

Pickens believed the President’s story had significant ties to the interracial history of his own family. He contacted the museum, and they confirmed that portraits of African American sitters from ...

Although born into slavery, African American Nancy Burns ... Highly valued by the family, they commissioned a portrait of Nancy wearing the headscarf that is also displayed at the Museum.