Unnamed Figures: Black Presence in the Early American North

Emelie Gevalt, American Folk Art Museum

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Unnamed Figures Gallery Installation: Remembering, Misremembering, and Forgetting. Photo by Eva Cruz, Every Story.

Unnamed Figures Gallery Installation: Remembering, Misremembering, and Forgetting. Photo by Eva Cruz, Every Story.

Unnamed Figures Gallery Installation Detail: Uncommon Threads

Unnamed Figures Gallery Installation Detail: Uncommon Threads: Black Representation in Needlework. Photo by Eva Cruz, Every Story.

Unnamed Figures Gallery Installation: Speaking Back: Early Black Makers and Subjects. Photo by Eva Cruz, Every Story.

Unnamed Figures Gallery Installation Detail: Speaking Back: Early Black Makers and Subjects. Photo by Eva Cruz, Every Story.

Detail Attributed to John Heaton

Unnamed Figures Gallery Installation: Detail Attributed to John Heaton (active 1730–1745), Van Bergen Overmantel, Leeds, Greene County, New York, c. 1733, Oil on wood, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York, museum purchase, N0366.1954. Photo by Eva Cruz, Every Story.

Unnamed Figures Gallery Installation: Progress and Obstacles in Nineteenth-Century Portraiture. Photo by Eva Cruz, Every Story.

Unnamed Figures Gallery Installation: Progress and Obstacles in Nineteenth-Century Portraiture. Photo by Eva Cruz, Every Story.

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Unnamed Figures: Black Presence in the Early American NorthEmelie Gevalt, American Folk Art Museum
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