In A Dream Deferred, art historian and professor M. Akua McDaniel paints a portrait of artist Edwin Augustus Harleston. The classically trained portraitist fought for civil rights as the first president of the city’s NAACP chapter but never realized his artstic ambitions due to discriminatory systems.
Portrait of Elise (oil on canvas, 1920)
A Vendor (aka Lady Passing a Wall) (oil on canvas, 1930)
