Yun Gee’s portrait of Dr. Aubré Maynard on display at the Museum of the City of New York • January 2017

Yun Gee’s portrait of Dr. Aubré de Lambert Maynard is on display at the Museum of the City of New York in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black History Month.

Dr. Aubré Maynard by Yun Gee
1942

The portrait, which was donated to the museum in 2000, was painted in 1942.

Read more at the museum’s blog:

Profiles in Freedom: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Dr. Aubre Maynard, and Yun Gee