Black: African American Art from the Corcoran Gallery
Artist
Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.
United States, born 1948
Printer
Kennedy Prints
Date2006
MediumLetterpress
Dimensions19 x 12 1/2 in. (48.3 x 31.8 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LinePoster House Permanent Collection
Object numberPH.6570
DescriptionThis poster advertises the traveling exhibition Black Is A Color: African American Art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, on view at the Mobile Museum of Art in Alabama. The show featured work by Mel Edwards, David Driskell, Lorna Simpson, and Kiki Smith, among many others, focusing on work in a grayscale color palette. The title comes from Raymond Saunders’s 1967 pamphlet of the same name that argued that Black artists should not be forced to solely tackle racial issues in their work. Although The Corcoran Gallery of Art was the first art museum in the United States, it dissolved in 2014, with most of its collection going to other institutions.On View
Not on view
