By special arrangement with the National Museum of American Art (NMAA), of the Smithsonian Institution, we are proud to display at this site some of the nation's finest paintings by African American artists. These paintings are all in the permanent collection of NMAA, and we invite you to visit the Museum in person whenever you are in Washington, DC.

The twelve paintings which will be on display here over the next few months were selected by students in the Providence College Program in Black Studies, which provided funding for the necessary licenses and which publishes this website; the staff at NMAA graciously provided the original images; our Providence College Department of Academic Media Services coordinated the scanning process.

While on display, you will be able to view each image in three formats: the thumbnails on this page; larger-format versions illustrating the main pages of our site; and for highest-quality viewing, as separate images in high-resolution JPEG format. To load a painting's high resolution (300 dpi) image, click on a thumbnail below.