BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Expanding the Legacy: New Collections on African American Art

DC -- Donald W. Reynolds Center (Archives of American Art) -- Exhibit: Expanding the Legacy: New Collections on African American Art:

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Description of Pictures: Expanding the Legacy: New Collections on African American Art
September 23, 2016 – March 19, 2017
In celebration of the 2016 grand opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Archives of American Art presents selections from recently acquired collections highlighting the cultural contributions and the personal stories of African Americans in the art world. Included in the exhibition are letters, photographs, notebooks and other rare materials that bring new perspectives to the history of American art in the 20th century, from Paris and New York, to Chicago and Alabama.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SIPGLG_160925_04.JPG: Expanding the Legacy: New Collections on African American Art
2. SIPGLG_160925_08.JPG: Charles Searles Papers Donated in 2012 by Kathleen Spicer Searles, widow of Charles Searles Sculptor and painter Charles Searles (1937-2004) used abstract forms and bold color to explore themes in black visual culture, dance, and music. Searles came of age in Philadelphia during the politically and culturally dynamic 1960s, and his personal papers reveal a man deeply connected to his roles as both artist and activist, epitomized by his involvements with the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), founded in 1969, which demanded representations of black artists and curators in many American museums.
3. SIPGLG_160925_15.JPG: Abstract watercolor sketch, undated
4. SIPGLG_160925_21.JPG: Moses Ros Papers Donated in 2016 by Moses Ros Lifelong New York City resident Moses Ros (b. 1958, also known as Moses Ros-Suarez) is a licensed architect and visual artist whose creative production over three decades has encompassed painting, printmaking, sculpture, architecture, murals, and videos. His papers address creativity in all of these media as well as illuminate how an artist of Dominican descent has negotiated African, African American, Latino, and Caribbean identities in his work.
5. SIPGLG_160925_36.JPG: Expanding the Legacy: New Collections on African American Art In celebration of the 2016 Grand Opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution, the Archives of American Art presents selections from recently acquired collections, highlighting the cultural contributions and the personal stories of African Americans in the art world. Included are letters, photographs, notebooks, and other rare materials that bring new perspectives to the history of American art in the twentieth century, from Paris and New York, to Chicago and Alabama. These records reveal the ways in which artists, dealers, and scholars experienced and contended with racism, explored cultural identity and aesthetics, navigated the art market, and were shaped by -- and helped shape -- major social and political currents. The documents on view join the papers and oral histories of Emma Amos, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Alma Thomas, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Kehinde Wiley, and scores of other collections, documenting African American art from mid-nineteenth century to the present, available at our headquarters in Washington, DC, our research center in New York City, and online at www.aaa.si.edu.
6. SIPGLG_160925_40.JPG: Ink sketch of AfriCOBRA members at the CONFABA Conference, Evanston, IL, 1970
7. SIPGLG_160925_45.JPG: Jeff Donaldson Papers Donated in 2015 by Jameela Donaldson, daughter of Jeff Donaldson The papers of painter-activist-educator Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004) chronicle early activities of AfriCOBRA, a radical artist collective founded in Chicago in 1968. Invigorated by the response of OBAC's 1967 street mural, the Wall of Respect, Donaldson, along with Wadsworth Jarrell (b. 1929) and Barbara Jones-Hugu (b. 1938), assembled about a dozen local African American artists in Chicago for the radical aim of creating and disseminating imagery supporting Black Liberation. In 1970, Donaldson moved to Washington, DC, to become chair of Howard University's Department of Art, where he would remain a key organizer of AfriCOBRA programs.
8. SIPGLG_160925_48.JPG: Brochure for AFRICOBRA: Exhibition of Chicago's African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists at the Museum of the National Center for Afro-American Artists, Roxbury, MA, 1970.
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