prints and sculpture by African-American artists. And during baseball season, the museum will host “Picturing America’s Pastime,” a photo exhibit on the history of baseball. “It’s really ...

William Matthew Prior, a white abolitionist, painted both Nancy Lawson and her husband, William, as well as a few other African Americans ... a common trope in portraits at the time.

He contacted the museum, and they confirmed that portraits of African American sitters from 1841 in Philadelphia were a significant find. But the paintings are just one part of this family’s rich ...

The show runs at Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American ... them contemporary photographers or video artists, though there’s also a set of portraits from a 19th ...