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Born in Springfield, Illinois, Hammons has become one of the best known and highest-priced Contemporary African American artists. This piece was a rare edition of 50 posters created for Tribes magazine. Tribes is Hammons’ “body print.”

Sills used rags, velvet, housepainter brushes, and even his own hands to create with industrial enamels, magnesite, and oil on wood, canvas, or any other material he found useful. Much later in his career, Sills would turn to collage as a medium.

Faith Ringgold is an American painter, writer, mixed media sculptor, and performance artist. She’s best known for her narrative quilts. She is professor emeritus from the University of California. Print is framed under Optium Museum plexiglass.

In 1974, Charles White became the second artist to be elected Academician of the National Academy of Design. (Henry Tanner was the first, when he was elected in 1927.) The National Academy is the oldest art organization in America.