pyramid club – Auction Finds

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I first came across the name of the artist Etelka J. Greenfield on a program for a 1948 exhibit at the Pyramid Club in Philadelphia. The club had been formed a decade earlier as a…

March 3, 2010

sherry

Pyramid Club’s black arts legacy

Posted in Art, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents

I was checking out the upcoming auction at one of my favorite places when I spotted it: A program for the Philadelphia Pyramid Club’s art exhibition from the 1940s. Was it possible? I had wanted…

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…

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