John Rogers’ “The Wounded Scout, a Friend in the Swamp” is on display at “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” an exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art ...

It is one of the most evocative works from the American Civil War: A sculpture of a Black man who had escaped from slavery helping an injured White Union soldier lost in hostile territory.

And in 2011, the National Portrait Gallery, which shares the same building as the American Art Museum, debuted “Hide/Seek,” the first major museum exhibition on gender and sexual identity at ...