Emma Van Name  1805

by Joshua Johnson

This compelling portrait of a Maryland toddler is widely regarded as an icon of American folk painting. Included in numerous international exhibitions since its discovery in the late 1950s by Edith Halpert, then New York’s leading dealer of folk and modern art, it is now accepted as an important work by Joshua Johnson, the earliest known professional African American paint...
Credit: 
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art