Harlem Renaissance – Auction Finds

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Augusta Savage is one of those great unknown artists. That’s not surprising given that she was both black and female. The art world – heck, the world on a whole – has never fully valued…

November 7, 2012

sherry

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The art of Harlem Renaissance’s Gwendolyn Bennett

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It was as if artist Gwendolyn Bennett was reaching out to me from the beyond. I had seen a landscape painting by the artist more than a week ago at the Swann Auction Galleries’ twice-yearly…

February 25, 2010

sherry

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James Van Der Zee’s photos of Harlem

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No one quite captured the culture, the love and the beauty of the people of Harlem like photographer James Van Der Zee. We all can conjure in our minds his iconic 1932 photo of a…

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…

October 9, 2009

sherry

Swann’s African American art auction

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“Wow” was the word of choice for many of us at yesterday’s auction of African American Fine Art at Swann Auction Galleries in New York. Works by some of the masters sold for prices in the thousands…

September 28, 2009

sherry

Motorcycles and art

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My friend Robert bought himself a motorcycle for Christmas. He takes it out as often as he can, mostly on short trips. But he has hooked up with an ad-hoc group of cyclists who just love to…

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