Color
Field Painting - Sculpture
- African American Art
- Figurative
Expressionism
Old Master
and Modern Drawings and Prints - Pattern
and Decoration
Photography
The
museum has consistently collected examples by contemporary African
American artists. The museum's curator, April Kingsley, who curated
the exhibition Afro-American Abstraction in 1980 for New
York's P.S.1 (which today is part of the Museum of Modern Art),
is working on a catalogue for an exhibition of senior African
American Abstractionists, many of whom were part of her previous
exhibition. Kingsley hopes this will result in Kresge Art Museum's
exhibition of substantially more of these works of art and possibly
acquisition. An expanded museum would more than triple the space
in which to display art.
Elizabeth Catlett
(American, born 1915)
Pensive, 1946, recast 1995
Bronze, 16 ¼ x 9 ½ x 7 ¾ inches
MSU purchase, 95.11
Willie Cole (American,
born 1955)
Man, Spirit and Mask (Triptych), 1999
Photo etching, embossing, hand coloring, silkscreen, lemon juice,
scorching and woodcut, 39 1/8 x 26 ½ inches
MSU purchase, funded by the Nellie M. Loomis Endowment, 2000.22.A-C
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