by: ShirleyKinsey The Norton Museum of Art will present an exhibition drawn from the artistic and historical treasures collected by Bernard and Shirley Kinsey of Los Angeles, California. The exhibition, “In The Hands Of African American Collectors: The Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey,”includes some 90 paintings, sculptures, prints, books, documents, manuscripts and vintage …

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by: Romane Bearden, Harry Brinton Henderson A landmark work of art history: lavishly illustrated and extraordinary for its thoroughness, A History of African-American Artists — conceived, researched, and written by the great American artist Romare Bearden with journalist Harry Henderson, who completed the work after Bearden’s death in 1988 — gives a conspectus of African-American …

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by: Virginia Linn, Pittsburgh post-gazette Vivian Hewitt turns 91 on Feb. 17, but she seemed unfazed last week about leaving her Upper West Side apartment in snow-buried New York City to travel here this week to talk about her lifelong passion. Mrs. Hewitt, a New Castle native who was the first black librarian in Pittsburgh, …

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by: Michael H. Hodges The new show at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, “Art of the Masters: A Survey of African American Images, 1980-2000,” opens with a knockout piece by Yvonne E. Tucker. “Desert Goddess” is a squat, two-handled vessel that calls to mind Greek amphoras. Topping it is the stern …

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By:Meg Nola By 1929, Archibald Motley had begun to develop a reputation as an artist, attracting critical praise along with patrons actually willing to purchase his work. Born in New Orleans in 1891, Motley was raised in Chicago and continued to live there after graduation from the city’s School of the Art Institute. He was …

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By Adams Susan, Hanging in Robert Johnson’s den is an oil from the 1930s by an African-American artist named Palmer Hayden. The painting depicts a black American businessman getting his shoes shined. The subject is nattily dressed in suit and spats, a little like Johnson himself, who is sporting a crisply pressed blue shirt and …

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The GREAT DEPRESSION OF 1929 brought to the ARTS a slow demise of artistic backings such as the HARMON FOUNDATION. Even though the FOUNDATION ended its support in 1967, the important Annual Awards Competition ended earlier in 1933. Visual artists such as SELMA BURKE, AUGUSTA SAVAGE, JOSEPH DELANEY, ROMARE BEARDEN, BEAUFORD DELANEY, LOIS MAILOU JONES, …

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October 24, 2010 — Coral Gables — The University of Miami Lowe Art Museum’s fall/winter exhibition will feature selections from one of the premier collections of African American art. The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper will provide a rare opportunity for the public to view master graphics spanning …

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In an overheated market, works by African American painters are a bargain — for now For art collector John Axelrod, the epiphany came a dozen years ago at a New York gallery show of works by African Americans. The Boston lawyer, now retired, was stunned. “My feeling was, these are not African American artists, these …

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Born in 1930, one of 10 children in a Georgia farming family, Benny Andrews grew up desperately poor. After serving in the U.S. Air Force, he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago on the G.I. Bill. He differed from his fellow students, mostly Abstract Expressionists, by going off to jazz clubs to draw. In …

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By LAUREN FEDOR Lovers of art and music will unite this week at “Out of the Blue: Modern Art Jazz,” a sale at Swann Auction Galleries on East 25th Street. Thursday afternoon’s auction will feature 76 pieces by African-American artists who found inspiration in blues and jazz. The sale, featuring works ranging from the figurative …

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By LAUREN FEDOR Romare Bearden’s ‘Jazz Musician at Piano’ is expected to fetch $15,000-$25,000 at Swann Auction Galleries. Lovers of art and music will unite this week at “Out of the Blue: Modern Art Jazz,” a sale at Swann Auction Galleries on East 25th Street. Thursday afternoon’s auction will feature 76 pieces by African-American artists …

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