Browsing Tag African-American Fine Art

December 22, 2009

Swann Galleries’ auction of African-American Fine Art on February 23, 2010, will offer approximately 160 lots from many notable collections and estates, including several…

October 14, 2009

A painting by Alma Thomas will be hung in the White House during the Obama administration!   Sky Light, 1973 (left), and Watusi (Hard Edge), 1963 (right), by Alma Thomas, Gift of…

September 23, 2009

The image that graces the cover of the auction catalogue for Swann Galleries’ sale of African-American Fine Art on Thursday, October 8, 2009, is John Biggers’s powerful 1987 oil…

September 17, 2009

Our October 8, 2009 auction of African-American Fine Art featured the Richard L. Brown painting Mt. Monadnock, 1911, which sold for $7,200.

September 16, 2009

Our October 8, 2009 African-American Fine Art auction marks the first time that early photographer Cornelius Marion Battey’s photographic portraits will come to auction. These…

May 20, 2009

Conversations: Among Friends – May 19, 2009 On May 19, 2009, 94-year-old Elizabeth Catlett and David C. Driskell shared “Conversations: Among Friends,” at the Museum of…