African Americans in Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art 

This video reviews five of the most important 19th century works at the Philadelphia Museum of Art that are created by African Americans or that tell an important story about African American life. For more of my RU-vid videos about the Philadelphia Museum of Art go to: johnimmerwahr.org/projects/
Below find information on all of the objects in the video. Click on the highlights for more information
about the art works. The Philadelphia Museum of Art works discussed were all on display in March 2020 when the museum closed for the Covid-19 crisis (except for the Peale Self-Portrait in the Museum).
Music: “Mary Had a Baby,” performed by Melissa Davis and the Nathaniel Dett Chorale
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Portrait of Yarrow Mamout (Muhammad Yaro), Charles Willson Peale, 1819
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Self-Portrait in the Museum, Charles Willson Peale, American, 1822
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The Artist in his Museum, Charles Willson Peale, 1822, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
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“Old Yarrow,” James Alexander Simpson, 1822
National Portrait Gallery, on Loan from the Peabody Collection of the Washington, DC Public Library
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Storage Jar, Dave the Potter, 1859
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Portrait of Hiram Charles Monteir and Portrait of Elizabeth Brown Montier, Franklin R. Street, 1841, on loan from the collection of Mr and Mrs. William Pickens
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Portrait of Henry Ossawa Tanner, Thomas Eakins, the Hyde Collection, 1900
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Portrait of George Burnham, Cecilia Beaux, 1887
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Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1897
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Arrangement in Gray and Black, no. 1 “Whistler’s Mother,” James Abbot McNeil Whistler, Musée d'Orsay
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Annunciation, Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1899
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Modern and Contemporary Works by African American Artists (shown at very end of the video)
Mr. Prejudice, Horace Pippin, 1953
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Portrait of James Baldwin, Beauford Delaney, 1979
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Birds in Flight, Aaron Douglas, 1927-29
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“Tar Beach 2” Quilt, Faith Ringgold, 1990
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