Highlights: African American Art from the Norton Collection
April 19 – August 31, 2008
Organized by the Norton Museum of Art, this companion exhibition to The Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey showcases important works by African American artists from the 1920s through the 1990s. Featured artists include Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Thermon Statom, Bob Thompson, and others. This grouping offers a glimpse at the diversity of aesthetic expression from the African American community since the early twentieth-century. Visitors can compare various styles and media found in the broad scope of modern and contemporary art, including pure abstraction, figural compositions and landscapes done in mixed media collage, oil, photography and sculpture. Additional examples of paintings and sculpture by African American artists can be found interspersed in the Norton’s impressive American art galleries.

Exhibition catalog - now viewable online!

Organized by the Norton Museum of Art.

Local sponsorship of this exhibition is made possible in part through the generosity of the MetLife Foundation, American Express, Starbucks Coffee Company, the Sydelle and Arthur I. Meyer Endowment, The Priscilla and John Richman Endowment for American Art, the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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