African American Art

March 17, 2020

Corey Serrant is the newest member of our African-American fine art department – in fact, he started the week of our white-glove sale of the Johnson Publishing Company…

March 6, 2020

At Auction June 4, 2020* Earliest Work by David Hammons to Come to Auction Post-War Paintings & Drawings: Norman Lewis, Vincent D. Smith, & Walter Williams The sale will…

January 31, 2020

Our Thursday, January 30 sale of African-American Art from the Johnson Publishing Company was an all-around success. The packed auction room saw all 87 lots find buyers, bringing…

January 27, 2020

Our January 30 sale of African-American Art from the Johnson Publishing Company features nearly 30 market newcomers. Here we've assembled a selection of ten artists whose work is…

January 16, 2020

In an introduction to the catalogue for our January 30 sale of African-American Art from the Johnson Publishing Company, Nigel Freeman, director of Swann's African-American Fine…

December 7, 2019

We welcome a new decade with 100 fine artworks from the collection of the Johnson Publishing Company, a great institution of American publishing and an icon of African-American…

October 28, 2019

Who builds a statue of a young man with locks, perched on a horse ready to ride into the ranks of Confederate statues in Virginia? Kehinde Wiley does. Who let this dude into the…

October 10, 2019

Swann Galleries' Fall 2019 auction of African-American Fine resulted in nine new auction records, supported by a room brimming with bidders—in fact, there were just enough chairs…

October 9, 2019

Amid a backdrop of highlights from the Johnson Publishing Company's incredible art collection—the majority of which hung in the offices of the company's historic Chicago…

October 7, 2019

New York was waiting for Aaron Douglas, though no one knew just how much, including the artist himself. By the time he arrived in 1925 he had no idea what was waiting, not the…