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December 7, 2019|Lauren Kristin|African-American Fine Art

African-American Art from the Johnson Publishing Company

We welcome a new decade with 100 fine artworks from the collection of the Johnson Publishing Company, a great institution of American publishing and an icon of African-American culture. The sale will feature paintings, sculpture and works on paper from diverse periods, with 75 artists featured,

August 26, 2019 | African-American Fine Art

Women of Color Featured in African-American Fine Art: Fall 2019

At Swann, we’re lucky to contribute to an overall market correction, offering exceptional art by women of color, whose work on the themes of feminism and identity is increasingly being recognized by a more equitable marketplace.

August 6, 2019 | African-American Fine Art

Fall 2019: African-American Fine Art

Highlights this fall from the African-American Fine Art department: sculptures by Elizabeth Catlett, Sargent Johnson and Augusta Savage, iconic works by Carrie Mae Weems, paintings by Allan Rohan Crite, Henry Ossawa Tanner and Hughie Lee-Smith.

September 19, 2018 | African-American Fine Art

A Contemporary Collection Highlights African-American Women

Selections from the Dr. Robert H. Derden Collection of Contemporary Art are featured in our October 4 African-American Fine Art sale, a private collection located in Chicago, Illinois. The works…

March 29, 2018 | Vintage Posters

#5WomenArtists – Lauren Goldberg’s List

As part of Women’s History Month, we’re offering a week of #5WomenArtists, inspired by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. We asked some women of Swann to tell us…

March 26, 2018 | Photographs & Photobooks

#5WomenArtists: Deborah Rogal’s List

We’re jumping into Women’s History Month to offer a week of #5WomenArtists, inspired by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. We asked some women of Swann to tell…

January 30, 2018 | African-American Fine Art

A Look Inside the Catalogue: African-American Fine Art

Two highlights of this sale on April 5 are significant, vibrant paintings by modernist New York artists. Beauford Delaney’s large Untitled (Village Street Scene), 1948, depicts a Greenwich Village corner in…

September 21, 2016 | African-American Fine Art

Notes from the Catalogue: Four of our Favorite Current Artists

Collecting the work of current artists provides a link to the contemporary creative community, even if the piece was created decades ago. Here are four of our favorite working artists, selected from our October…

October 4, 2011 | African-American Fine Art

African-American Fine Art Across the Country

Across the U.S. this fall, a bevy of museum shows related to the impressive works in Thursday’s African-American Fine Art auction have opened. Hale Woodruff, Rape of Europa, oil on canvas, circa…

February 2, 2011 | African-American Fine Art

Elizabeth Catlett Sculptures at Swann and in the Bronx

Our upcoming preview will be the first time Elizabeth Catlett’s 1967 sculpture, Untitled (Standing African-American Woman), will be on public exhibition in the United States. The nearly four-foot high sculpture, which had been in a…

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