Continuing our theme celebrating African American culture, we turn our attention to Duke Ellington, arguably the greatest and most charismatic jazz composer and bandleader of the 20th...

Aspiration, Aaron Douglas 1936 Aaron Douglas (1881-1979) was an African American artist who played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and...

A Night Club Map of Harlem, E. Simms Campbell During the years of Prohibition (1920-1933), Harlem in New York City, became a cultural, social and...

Zora Neale HurstonZora Neale Hurston was an anthropologist, novelist and folklorist, who wrote about the racial struggles in the American south.  Known as the queen of...

Jeanne Mammen with her sculptures late 1940sDuring the years of the Weimar Republic, which followed the collapse of the German Empire, the abdication of Kaiser Wilheim II...

Dora Maar with little hands, by Man Ray, 1936Dora Maar, born Henriette Théodora Markovitch in 1907, was a French surrealist photographic artist and painter.  She studied...

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, better known as Le Corbusier, is widely regarded as the most important architect of the 20th century and whose influence can be seen...

Diego Rivera, 1886-1957 Diego Rivera was a prominent Mexican artist who believed art was for the many rather than the privileged few.  His large-scale murals, painted...

Helen Wills in action, wearing her signature outfit  As we near the start of Wimbledon, we take a look back at some of the tennis...