Living Legacies: A Landmark Exhibition of African American Art

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Living Legacies: Art of the African American South
Gift of Arthur J. Secor, by exchange, purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott and gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, 2020.30 © Richard Dial / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Image

Richard Dial (American, born 1955), The Comfort of the First Born, 1988. Mixed media (welded steel, plastic tubing, paint). 69 1/2 x 46 x 39 in.

Curated by Jessica S. Hong, TMA’s curator of modern and contemporary art, Living Legacies: Art of the African American South will be on view in the museum’s New Media Gallery from January 15 through May 1, 2022.

Artists included in the exhibition are Leroy Almon, Thornton Dial, Thornton Dial, Jr., Richard Dial, Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, Joe Minter, John B. Murray, Royal Robertson, Georgia Speller, Henry Speller, Luster Willis and several generations of women quiltmakers, including Louisiana Bendolph, Mary Elizabeth Kennedy, Jessie T. Pettway, Lola Pettway, Lucy T. Pettway, Martha Pettway, Rita Mae Pettway and Florine Smith, as well as Estelle Witherspoon, one of the founders of the Freedom Quilting Bee. Living Legacies will recognize both their crucial contributions to a broader understanding of 20th-century American art and their artistic influences upon subsequent generations of artists.

Event Information
Start Date: November 5, 2022
End Date: May 1, 2022
City: Toledo, OH
Venue: Toledo Museum of Art

Living Legacies: Art of the African American South

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