To be Black in America, artist John Woodrow Wilson (1922–2015) once said, was to endure "a kind of slow death." How best to fight that protracted, demoralizing violence? For Wilson, one solution was ...

In time. Jan got to Spain ... but in 1945 he decided to devote himself to painting. He studied at the Art Students League, six months later switched to the school run by Hans Hofmann, the most ...