Browsing Tag John Biggers

October 24, 2023

Swann Galleries’ October 19 sale of African American Art proved consistent among new contemporary artists and auction house favorites. Regarding the auction, department director…

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…

September 18, 2017

As Hurricane Harvey roared through Houston last month, an unlikely victim was left behind: the monumental 1953 mural by John Biggers, titled Contribution of Negro Women to…

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…