My latest series, Women of Color and Accomplishment, was started as a result of my research into the BLM movement in 2020. Learning about many Black women who had done incredible things despite major obstacles, I decided to honor those women by painting their portraits. Here are a few of the portraits painted in 2021. Links to brief bios are below.

  • Recy Taylor
  • Carlotta Stewart Lai
  • Edmonia Lewis 2
  • Ann Cole Lewis
  • Billie Holiday 2
  • Vanilla Beane
  • Polly Jackson
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Harriet Tubman
  • Augusta Savage
  • Nannie Burroughs 2
  • Recy Taylor 2

My latest paintings, August, 2021

Bessie Coleman, 2021, Acrylic on Canvas, 11 x 14 in.
Mamie Clark

Stagecoach Mary, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 11 x 14 in.

Some of my posts of previous WOCAA Paintings (click on painting description to link to post):

Edmonia 3, 2021, 24 x 30 in., Acrylic on canvas
Polly Jackson 2 16″ x 20″ acrylic on canvas
Mary McLeod Bethune 2021 11″x 14″ acrylic on canvas
Zora Neale Hurston. 2021. Acrylic on panel, 11 x 14 in.
Recy Taylor 24″ x 30″ acrylic on canvas 2021
Billie Holiday 2

Carlotta Stewart Lai 1881-1952

Vanilla Beane 1919 –

Harriet Tubman    1822 – 1913

Augusta Savage     1892 – 1962

Sojourner Truth 1797 – 1883