Called “Black Memorabilia” and “Black Americana” at times, blackface characters and apparel have had a long run in America. Now, the African American Museum is confronting their legacy head-on.

The self-taught artist Abraham Lincoln Walker worked in his basement on phantasmagorical paintings, discovered by the art world more than 30 years after his death.

James Leonard Wimsatt — a World War II veteran, lifelong artist, and longtime Owensboro resident — died on Friday, Valentine’s Day, at Chautauqua Health Care. He was 106.