Whitfield Lovell’s work defies easy categorization. He is perhaps best known for his realistic Conté crayon portrait drawings, sourced from found vintage photographs of anonymous African Americans ...

Whitfield Lovell, Gordon Parks, Faith Ringgold, Jamel Shabazz, and James VanDerZee, embody what curator Dexter Wimberly called “countless examples of resilience” as he researched these artists ...