Some cool african american skin images:
Three Friends, ca. 1944-1945
Image by americanartmuseum
Three Friends
ca. 1944-1945
William H. Johnson
Born: Florence, South Carolina 1901
Died: Central Islip, New York 1970
serigraph on paper
sheet and image: 15 7/8 x 11 5/8 in. (40.2 x 29.5 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of the Harmon Foundation
1967.59.1020
As a light-skinned African American, Johnson was uncomfortably aware of the color hierarchy in his community that favored light
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