Auctions offer a moment where the sometimes-incalculable significance of an object is quantified. The price is reached through collaboration: specialists, consignors, the market, and finally, bidders convene in the room,…
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…
