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Louis B. Sloan–PAFA announces memorial service

Gathering Storm Over Philadelphia* by Louis B. Sloan. Oil. 39″ x 49″. Image taken from www.archives.gov/research/american-cities/ About a month ago, I learned that beloved PAFA teacher and mentor Louis B. Sloan had died, from Celestine Wilson Hughes. Sloan, while he taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, was inspiration and mentor to many of the African American artists who are successfully working today, including Barkley L. Hendricks, whose solo exhibit The Birth of Cool, scheduled to appear at PAFA in Fall 2009, is now up at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and who we mentioned the other day ... More » »

Weekly Update – Missing Masters at Woodmere

This week’s Weekly has my review of the Lewis Tanner Moore collection exhibit In Search of Missing Masters at Woodmere. Below is the copy with some photos. More pictures at flickr. Claude Clark, We Are Sisters, 1949 Lewis Tanner Moore’s collection of African-American art, on view at Woodmere Art Museum, is chock full of great work by artists whose names you’ve probably never heard and whose art you’ve probably never seen. Raymond Steth, Institution Series #1, 1980. lithograph African-American artists are often excluded from the mainstream art world. A local collector and the grandnephew of Postimpressionist painter Henrey Ossawa Tanner, ... More » »