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What’s Behind the Surge in African-American Art?

December 22, 2015 by Marion Maneker

St. Louis Art Museum bought Horace Pippin’s Sunday Morning Breakfast for $1.5m

According to Daniel Grant in the Observer.com, museum demand is driving sales of African American art. Here’s a partial list of potentially big institutional buyers:

Next year, the Smithsonian will be opening a national museum devoted to such art, while the Brooklyn-based Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts is in the process of moving to a larger space within the borough. The Baltimore Museum of Art recently renovated and expanded galleries for African art. The Studio Museum of Harlem is planning a new, larger building for its collection, and a retired phone company executive with a multi-million dollar collection of African art, Eric Edwards, is looking to open his own African art museum.

In 2015, Art Museums Scrambled to Beef Up Holdings of African-American Artists (Observer)

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