The man was wondering aloud what many of us longtime auction-goers stopped asking years ago. Where did he keep all of this stuff? “This stuff” was a collection of Disney characters – Mickey Mouse in…
Month: October 2019
As soon as I saw the woman in the painting, I recognized her. Her portrait had come up for auction some years before with another painting of a black soldier with attitude. I wasn’t able…
My unintended collection of black dolls
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On Sunday, the Paul Robeson House & Museum in Philadelphia will host Barbara Whiteman, founder of the Philadelphia Doll Museum, which houses her collection of hundreds of black dolls. The museum, which opened in 1988,…
Wow, I thought as I saw the bold figure of a lion drawn in deep dark colors that seemed to glisten on the page in front of me. I had asked the auction-house staffer for…
I was flipping through a stack of photos at auction recently and found two that caused me to pause. Both were black and whites of two separate groups of black men who were Masons. They…