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.…
Tag: African American artist
“There’s David Driskell.” Alvin Lester was sitting about two chairs away from me and could see around the thick post that was blocking my view. Lester is an art consultant from Richmond, VA, whom my…
Who was Phila. artist Collins Thomas?
Posted in Art, and Reader questions
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources to help them determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
Reader asks about Thomas Blackshear art figurines
Posted in Art, collectibles, and Figurines
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
Reader asks about cartoonist & artist Lester Kern
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Reader questions
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
A.C. Hollingsworth – from comic books to paintings
Posted in Art, and Comic books
The print was almost hidden, so small and fragile tucked behind large and heavy paintings leveled against a wall at the auction house. It could have easily been missed, except for alert and prying eyes…
Reader asks about Lois Mailou Jones’ Paris art book
Posted in Art, Books, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Reader questions
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
I’ve always liked the movement and vibrant colors of the works of Charles Searles but had not loved them. That’s probably because I had not come face to face with a piece of his abstracts that spoke…
Watercolors by an artist named Dawson
Posted in Art
The paintings were quite lovely, that was my first thought as I saw them hanging on a wall at the auction house. They were watercolors, clean without any signs of poor upkeep or torn canvas…
Reader asks about prints by artist Cal Massey
Posted in Art, and Reader questions
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of the items that they own. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but…