Study for Negro Sunshine #2 (2004), a drawing in oil stick and coal dust on paper by the American artist Glenn Ligon (born 1960), repeats across the eleven horizontal lines of its composition the letters that make up the words “negro sunshine.”

This article introduces in chronological sequence five recently acquired works by leading Black modern and contemporary artists, made between the 1940s and the recent present.

The Art Museum recently acquired an exceptional impression of The Three Trees , made at the apex of the artist’s career and a year after his most celebrated painting, The Night Watch (1642, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).

Mario Moore’s silverpoint drawing Stay Woke is an arresting and visionary self-portrait that utilizes an exacting and exquisite technique to evoke the charged intersection of personal trauma and institutional racism

Don’t miss your chance to see recent acquisitions by David Cox and John White Abbott, currently on view in the exhibition Landscapes Behind Cézanne —now extended through Sunday, May 20!

In acquiring prints and drawings by African American artists, the goal has been to provide a rich cross section of figurative and abstract images that explore the black experience from a variety of perspectives, past and present.

British art is the focus of this summer’s special exhibition, which features more than one hundred rarely seen treasures from the renowned collection of some 10,000 works on paper in the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.

“Remember Me”: Shakespeare and His Legacy showcases works from the Library's Rare Books Division and the Graphic Arts Collection, together with works from the Art Museum and a private collection, to present twenty-two rare books, prints, and drawings in recognition...