laura wheeler waring – Auction Finds

Posted in Art, and Black history

The auction house had played the portrait prominently on its website. That was understandable since the artist who painted it and the subject were both famous African Americans. The auction house expected it to bring in…

February 18, 2013

sherry

African American art by some old (and new) favorites

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When I first started going to auctions looking to buy African American art inexpensively, several pieces by Norman Lewis came up for sale. There were about three or four of his abstract compositions, none of which…

February 24, 2010

sherry

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Black women artists at fine art auction

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Black women artists were in the house Tuesday at the Swann Auction Galleries African American Fine Art auction in New York. Their images were on paper and canvas staring from the walls, and their signatures…

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