“Shifting Landscapes at the Whitney Museum of American Art, explores how evolving political, ecological, and social issues motivate artists and their representations of the world around them. While the traditional art historical landscape genre has long been associated with picturesque vistas and documentary accounts of… Read More
All posts tagged “Purvis Young”
Another Tradition: Drawings by Black Artists from the American South at The Morgan Library & Museum, September 24, 2021 – January 16, 2022
“In the last three decades, exhibitions and publications have established the rightful place of figures such as Dial and the quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, in the canon of twentieth-century art. The focus has often been on the impressive works of assemblage—whether of found objects… Read More
History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift at The Met Fifth Avenue, May 22 – September 23, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “This installation of paintings, sculptures, and quilts celebrates the creative accomplishments of contemporary African American artists from the southeastern United States and a transformative gift of fifty-seven artworks from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation of Atlanta, Georgia. Remarkably diverse in media… Read More
Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art at The Studio Museum in Harlem, November 13, 2014 – March 8, 2015
Images courtesy The Studio Museum in Harlem




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