The renovated Gilded Age mansion of beer makers in Newark is filled with surprises: a Black history from the 19th century that has been largely invisible.
George McCalman February 24, 2021Updated: February 24, 2021, 4:37 pm
George McCalman, an artist and creative director in San Francisco, is working on a book, “Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen.” Photo: Aliena Zoe Cameron, Courtesy George McCalman
Five years ago, I began painting Black pioneers for Black History Month, one a day, as a self-directed fine art exercise. It seemed like a small thing at the time, my dawning interest swimming in an insurmountable ocean, but it felt like a gigantic personal step. I had to place parameters around my furtiveness. I wanted the pioneers I represented to be mostly unknown (at least to me) subjects. And I decided that I was going to use only black and white, because color was so overwhelmingly colorful. Oh, and I had not painted in 20 years, so I wasn’t even sure I could do it.
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George W. Bush at one of his inaugural balls in 2001.
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