E. Harper Johnson — Piankhy the Great, Plate 9 | African History Art Print

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E. Harper Johnson — Piankhy the Great, Plate 9 | African History Art PrintE. Harper Johnson (19011958) was an American illustrator and muralist who specialised in historical illustration, particularly African and African American history. His paintings of ancient African civilisations including his celebrated series on Piankhy the Great, the Nubian pharaoh who conquered Egypt around 730 BC brought a visual dignity and scholarly seriousness to subjects that mainstream illustration of his era routinely ignored or distorted.

and supernatural confrontations

combining symbolic colour coding

graphic style for rendering tigers

in which the writing brush is the instrument not merely of communication but of aesthetic

This Soviet propaganda poster — 'Volunteer' — is a product of the early Soviet graphic design tradition: vivid red

The Heart — are now among the most iconic and collected prints of the 20th century

gas stations

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Nighthawks alone has become one of the most iconic images in American cultural history — a perfect encapsulation of urban loneliness that feels as contemporary now as it did in 1942

with their warm palette and intimate domestic scale

sea anemones

when mapmakers combined scientific precision with ornamental craft

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