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Tony Bravo April 14, 2021Updated: April 14, 2021, 7:39 pm
“Activity” by Herbert Gentry. The 1975 oil-on-line painting is one of 31 works by Black artists recently gifted to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Pamela Joyner and Alfred Giuffrida. Photo: SFMOMA
It’s the kind of major gift that can help reshape a museum’s collection.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced on March 11 that it had received a gift of 31 works, including paintings, sculptures and drawings, by 20 African American artists from the Pamela J. Joyner and Alfred J. Giuffrida Collection. The collection has been celebrated in books and exhibitions as one of the most significant holdings of intergenerational abstract art of the African Diaspora.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Lands a Major Gift of Work by Black American Artists From Pamela Joyner and Alfred Giuffrida
The donated works are primarily by artists born before 1930.
Pamela Joyner. Photo: Drew Altizer.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is having a very good week. Just a few days after re-opening, following more than three months of a second lockdown, the museum has announced a landmark gift of 31 paintings, sculptures, and drawings by 20 American artists from the prestigious Pamela J. Joyner and Alfred J. Giuffrida Collection, known for its extensive focus on abstract work made by artists of the African diaspora.