We held our highest-grossing auction to date on April 5, totaling $4.5M—more than $1M over the high estimate of the sale. The 160 works that made up the highly curated…
Is there anything more thrilling than discovering artwork in your attic? Four previously unknown woodblock prints by William H. Johnson will be offered in our October 6 sale…
The top lot at our recent auction, Ascension: A Century of African-American Fine Art was Barkley Hendricks’s Steve, an iconic painting that embodies the look and attitude that Hendricks famously captured…
Henry Ossawa Tanner’s Boy and Sheep Under a Tree was on loan to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for many years. The show Represent: 200 Years of African-American Art currently on view at…
In advance of our April 2 African-American Art auction, we are pleased to have this blog post from Imani Higginson. Norman Lewis’s painting Cathedral (1950) was featured in the exhibition…
On Saturday, February 21 the South Side Community Arts Center in Chicago will host an event celebrating the work of renowned artist and printmaker Eldzier Cortor. Swann’s own Nigel Freeman will…
Dr. Amalia Amaki, noted art historian and artist, wrote the catalogue introduction for The Richard A. Long Collection of African-American Art. Dr. Amaki, a native Atlantan, received her Ph.D in…
This Untitled watercolor from Alma Thomas’s Space Series, circa 1969-72, is featured in our October 9 auction. Alma Woodsey Thomas, abstract painter and art educator, was born on this…
Last week, From the Margins: Lee Krasner and Norman Lewis opened at the Jewish Museum. The exhibition combines the works of an unlikely pair: Lee Krasner, a female Jewish artist…
Martha’s Vineyard, an affluent summer colony located on an island south of Cape Cod, has long attracted African American artists. Lois Mailou Jones’s oil on canvas, Monday at Menemsha,…
Beauford Delaney’s pastel Portrait of Richard A. Long is among the highlights of Long’s collection. On October 9, as part of our Fall African-American Fine Art auction, Swann will…
Last week Swann Galleries had the pleasure of hosting an artist talk with Barkley L. Hendricks, whose “unique work resides at the nexus of American realism and post-modernism, a space…
Swann Galleries is pleased to offer the first significant work by assemblage artist Noah Purifoy to come to auction in our upcoming sale of African-American Fine Art titled The Shape of Things…
On June 10, Swann will hold our third African-American Fine Art sale of the 2013-14 auction season. The Shape of Things to Come focuses on art made in the 1960s…
Swann Galleries is putting the final touches on our catalogue for the June 10 auction of African-American Fine Art we have titled The Shape of Things to Come, which focuses…
Alaina McEachin, of Swann’s African-American Fine Art Department, writes about the catalogue cover image for the upcoming auction Shadows Uplifted: The Rise of African-American Art. The cover for our February…
Among the featured artists in Swann’s February 13th auction, Shadows Uplifted: The Rise of American-American Fine Art, are Pauline Powell Burns and Beulah Ecton Woodard. These early Californian artists stand…
The image chosen for the cover of Swann’s upcoming sale Point of Departure: Postwar African-American Fine Art is a circa 1957 Untitled oil on canvas by Norman Lewis. The previously unrecorded painting was acquired…
We’re very pleased to post this write up from Alaina McEachin, the new specialist in our African-American Fine Art Department. A recent article in The New York Times covers the abundance…
