View Benjamin Spurgeon Kitchin painting and displaying one of his works
Benjamin Spurgeon Kitchin painting, from A Study of Negro Artists, a 1936 silent film produced by the Harmon Foundation.
Archival footage supplied by the Internet Moving Images Archive (at archive.org) in association with Prelinger Archives
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Pope Clement VII commissioned Michelangelo to paint a fresco in the Sistine Chapel in 1534.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Completed in 1931, the “melting clocks” in Salvador Dalí's The Persistence of Memory quickly became a worldwide sensation.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.American artist James McNeill Whistler painted Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, also known as The Artists Mother, in 1871.
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Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Learn more about women writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Archival footage supplied by the Internet Moving Images Archive (at archive.org) in association with Prelinger ArchivesJames Latimer Allen at work in his photography studio, from A Study of Negro Artists, a 1936 silent film produced by the Harmon Foundation.
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Archival footage supplied by the Internet Moving Images Archive (at archive.org) in association with Prelinger ArchivesGeorgette Seabrooke in an excerpt from A Study of Negro Artists, a silent film produced by the Harmon Foundation and released in the 1930s that features many artists active during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.The riots outside New York's Stonewall Inn sparked a new era of LGBTQ activism.
