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. Click on the painting titles to link to brief bios of each woman.
Women of Color and Accomplishment (Book One) was originally published in 2021. The Second Edition is now available on Amazon.com and at my studio.

Here are many of the portraits in that book. Click on the word ‘bio’ above each woman’s name to get a brief bio.

Nannie Burroughs 2

Recy Taylor 2

Billie Holiday 2

Ann Cole Lowe

Edmonia Lewis 2

Carlotta Stewart Lai

Recy Taylor 24″ x 30″ acrylic on canvas 2021

Zora Neale Hurston

Eartha and Clara White

Polly Jackson 2 16″ x 20″ acrylic on canvas

Mary McLeod Bethune 2021 11″x 14″ acrylic on canvas

Edmonia 3, 2021, 24 x 30 in., Acrylic on canvas

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

Mamie Clark

Bessie Coleman

Cathay Williams

Dr. Patricia Bath

Juanita Harrison

Harriet Tubman 2

Sojourner Truth 2

Biddy Mason

Fannie Lou Hamer

Carlotta Lai, 2021, Acrylic on Panel, 11 x 14 in.

Vanilla Beane

Augusta Savage, 2021, Acrylic on Panel 11 x 14 in.

Katherine Johnson

Sarah Boone

Rosa Parks

Wilma Rudolph

Amanda Gorman