It’s always wonderful to stumble upon paintings by artists whose names I know. So many have produced so much great works that it’s sometimes impossible to see it all. I was at the USArtists American…
Tag: African American art
The woman walked determinedly toward the wall of prints that ArtLady Sandra had hung on a metal rack. A gallery owner, Sandra was selling African American art from her inventory in a parking lot near her shop…
African American painting? I think not
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Something about the child wearing a yellow raincoat in the painting was endearing. I couldn’t put my finger on it, though. Maybe it was the sense of isolation, a solitary child alone in the rain.…
I had gone to the art preview at Freeman’s Auctioneers to see works by African American artists Lois Mailou Jones, Romare Bearden and Ron Adams. Jones, whom I had interviewed in 1993, is one of my…
The art of woman by Elizabeth Catlett
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How I’d love to own a sculpture by artist Elizabeth Catlett. But the pieces that have come up at the auctions I’ve attended in New York have been way way out of my reach. So, I…
A painting by artist Henry Bozeman Jones
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The two women waited patiently in the plain chairs at the auction house, through more than three hours of bidding on Chinese vases and furniture, mantle clocks, shoe-store furniture, stained-glass windows and then artwork by…
Pyramid Club’s forgotten women artists
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In the 1948 Pyramid Club catalog I got at auction, the women artists appear to share the listing with the men. Their names are right there, seemingly in no particular order and with no ranking. …
Lying discarded on table after table in the back room of the auction house were piles and piles of books from someone’s library. The auctioneer kept saying that the books and more tables of stuff…
I was standing a short distance away from where the auctioneer was selling tables of books. I had already shuffled through them and hadn’t seen any that I just had to have. But when I…
I drove to New York yesterday for the Swann Auction Galleries’ sale of African American fine art with my art-auction buddy Kristin. I hadn’t planned to go to this one, but there were some pieces I…