# blackhistorymonth aliceneel rediscoveringblackportraiture twitterstorians gettymuseumchallenge gettychallenge

✨It's the final day of ! ✨

Please enjoy this recreation of "James Hunter (Black Draftee), 1965" by .

is out May 30th!
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https://t.co/1397l6Wj4G

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2023-03-01

Anyone out there interested in/researching/responding to historical portraits of Africans in British art?

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2021-02-20

Christoph Weiditz: An African drummer playing at the ceremonial entrance of Katherine of Aragon’s nephew, Emperor Charles V (1529). Reworked with loo roll, grandpap’s cou cou stick, granny’s quilt and clothes horse. Rediscovering through

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2020-06-24

Alice Neel: Harold Cruse (c1950). Intellectual, educator and writer. Harold Cruse would go on to become a key intellectual figure in the civil rights movement. Reworked with dark overcoat. Rediscovering through

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2020-06-20

Isaac Belisario: Lovey (1837). Lovey sold flowers in Kingston, Jamaica. As a way of increasing his income, he held nightly puppet shows with “songs of his own composition”. Reworked with Punch & Judy. Rediscovering through

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2020-05-22

Juriaen van Streeck: Still Life With Peaches and a Lemon
(c. 1650s). Reworked with African print, my heirloom patchwork quilt and Bajan chopped seasoning. Rediscovering through challenge.

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2020-04-12