Baltimore Museum of Art announces final 2020 Vision acquisitions
Loïs Mailou Jones. Untitled (Two Women). c. 1945. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Purchase with exchange funds from the Pearlstone Family Fund and partial gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Image Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY.
BALTIMORE, MD
.-The Baltimore Museum of Art announced today 33 new acquisitions made as part of its 2020 Vision initiative, which includes a commitment to only purchase works by female-identifying artists this calendar year. Among the highlights entering the collection are mixed-media sculpture and paintings by Theresa Chromati, Shirley Gorelick, Loïs Mailou Jones, Valerie Maynard, Betye Saar, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, and Kay WalkingStick; works on paper by Camille Billops, Margaret Burroughs, Lea Grundig, Joyce J. Scott, and Zarina; and photographs by Laura Aguilar, Zackary Drucker (with A.L. Steiner), Nona Faustine, Martha Rosler, and Ming
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Courtesy photoFourth-grader Darla Sills works on an experiment during a science, technology, engineering and mathematics class at Molin Upper Elementary School in Newburyport. The experiment asks students to test which of four liquids â hot water, oil, vinegar and cold water â will make a candy cane disintegrate faster.
Courtesy photoFourth-grader Lia Garbarino, center, learns the keyboard as part of Kathleen Sheperd s music class at Molin Upper Elementary School.Â
Courtesy photoFifth-grader Noelle Gerth sits in her designated space during physical education class at Molin Upper Elementary School in Newburyport. Tape was used to ensure social distancing during activities in the gym.
Records for Charles Alston, Wadsworth Jarrell, Augusta Savage and more in African American Art at Swann
Charles Alston, Black and White #8, oil on linen canvas, 1961. Sold for $197,000, a record for the artist.
NEW YORK, NY
.- The Thursday, December 10 sale of African American Art at Swann Galleries was met with enthusiasm from collectors. The sale saw nine auction records set, as well as an auction debut from contemporary artist Tyrone Geter. The auction total reached $2.8 million bringing the houses African American Art sale totals for the year to $9.2 million.
Leading the December sale was Charles Alstons Black and White #8, oil on canvas, 1961. The largest of the artists works yet to come to auction, the stunning abstraction came from an important series of eight works painted between 1959 and 1961. Black and White #8, earned a record for the artist at $197,000. Additional abstract works included Sir Frank Bowlings Repose for SO, acrylic on canvas, 1976, an example