Charles Ethan Porter

American · 1847–1923

A student at the National Academy of Design in New York City, he was one of the first African Americans to exhibit there.

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Still Life with Apples — The living window: art moves here the way it moves in your living room.

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Still Life with Apples

Charles Ethan Porter · National Gallery of Art

Who Charles Ethan Porter was

Charles Ethan Porter was an American painter who specialized in still life painting. A student at the National Academy of Design in New York City, he was one of the first African Americans to exhibit there. He was the only African-American artist at the turn of that century who painted in still life and the first known professional Black artist to concentrate on still life.

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