The audience seemed to be ho-hum as artist Charles Ethan Porter’s beautiful yellow sunflowers went for $40,000. I didn’t observe much stirring when William H. Johnson’s jitterbug dancers sold for $90,000. But when Elizabeth Catlett’s…
Tag: Norman Lewis
I was standing in the last room of the Norman Lewis exhibition when my friend Monica walked over to me. I was admiring a 1978 painting bathed in lilac with Lewis’ familiar figures in motion.…
Norman Lewis is much like many other African American artists of his generation. Since their skins were brown, these artists were ignored by the so-called art world, lost and unrecognized. That is changing now –…
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…