Share this page Dec 18, 2024 — Continuing Ranging from a rare 1840 poem jar by enslaved potter David Drake (c. 1800 – c. 1870) to an evocative 2020 abstract painting by Frank Wimberley (born 1926), the GCMA African-American Collection spans 180 years of American history, highlighting such artists as Romare Bearden, Beauford Delaney, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Alison Saar, Merton Simpson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Kara Walker, Hale Woodruff, and many more. A selection of these important works can be found in the museum’s current exhibition Say It Loud. Back Jacob Lawrence The North Star gouache and tempera on paper view Romare Bearden Salome acrylic and collage on Masonite view Hale Woodruff untitled oil on canvas view Beauford Delaney Washington Square oil on canvas view Frederick Brown Billie's Blues oil on linen view Merton D. Simpson Orangeburg Massacre oil on canvas view view