A painting from a thrift store in Glenside is by William H. Dorsey, of Philadelphia’s elite Black society circa 1864.

The W.H. Dorsey painting is one more piece of evidence that there was a thriving Black community in antebellum Philadelphia ...

A watercolor by artist William H. Dorsey dates back to 1864 and is now on display at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

“I believe it’s possible to hold twin desires in your head, such as the desire to create painting and destroy painting at once,” the artist has explained. “The desire to look at a black American ...

His painting, sculpture, video, and performance address the African-American experience while examining race ... at the University of Virginia before enrolling at the School of the Art Institute of ...

Prior to Blanton, the painting was at Museum of Fine Arts in Houston ... Barnes was born in 1938 and majored in art at the all-Black North Carolina College at Durham, now North Carolina Central ...

Pepper-Pot brought public attention to Krimmel as the first Philadelphia artist to approach street scenes as the subject of fine art. Pepper-pot ... shows a barefoot black woman ladling cups ...