"SALEM - The final exhibition to fill the main gallery at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art this year is a delightfully eclectic collection of postwar African American art that is every bit as interesting as the story of how it came together is inspiring."
"Memories & Inspiration: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art is on display in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery and in the lobby through Dec. 20, accompanied by a softcover catalog published by International Arts and Artists, the Washington, D.C., group that coordinated the show."
""I came to this with no forethought or anything," he told me this fall when he and Betty visited Salem for the show's opening in September. "I'm here because I wanted to hang something on the wall. But as I continued, there's an evolution. I started to read the paintings, to see them, and you can't help but learn.""
The Hallie Ford Museum of Art presents Memories & Inspiration: The Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection of African American Art in the Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery and lobby through Dec. 20. The touring collection comprises more than 60 postwar works that began when Kerry Davis started buying art in the early 1980s as a young postal carrier in Atlanta. The holdings include major figures such as Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Sam Gilliam, Jacob Lawrence, Samella Lewis, and Charles White, alongside emerging Atlanta artists born in the 1980s and 1990s. The collection has traveled nationally since January 2020, reaching 16 exhibitions across a dozen states and reflecting a personal evolution in seeing and reading paintings while affirming communal aspects of the African American experience.
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