AFA 20th Anniversary

2020 Antiques & Fine Art 103 Also helping to rewrite the standard story of American art, the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum in Georgia, the Minneapolis Institute of Art , the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama, and the Phillips Collection in Washington , D.C. all acquired pieces from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation’s collection, which focuses on black artists working in the American South. The Whitney Museum of American Art purchased Norman Lewis’ 1960 painting American Totem, and the Broad in Los Angeles purchased David Hammons‘s African-American Flag (1990)the first piece by the artist to enter the museum’s collection and is part of a series of five editions. Kehinde Wiley (b. 1977) gained nation- wide attention for his 2018 portrait of former President Barack Obama that was commissioned for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. His artworks, which regularly borrow from Old Master subjects and styles but substitute more contemporary figures into these images, have become must-haves for museums. The Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, bought his 2018 Portrait of a Florentine Nobleman , which is based on a sixteenth-century painting by Fig. 11: Anne Vallayer-Coster, Still Life with Mackerel, 1787. Oil on canvas, 19½ x 24 in. Kimbell Art Museum; Gift of Sid R. Bass in honor of Kay and Ben Fortson. Below Fig. 12: Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room— My Heart is Dancing into the Universe, 2018. Wood and glass mirrored room with paper lanterns. 119⅝ x 245⅛ x 245⅛ in. Courtesy Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/ Singapore/Shanghai and Victoria Miro, London/Venice. © Yayoi Kusama. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas. Francesco Salviati, while the Oklahoma City Museum of Art purchased his 2018 Jacob de Graeff (with funds from the Carolyn A. Hill Collections Endowment and the Pauline Morrison Ledbetter Collections Endowment), which is modeled on seven- teenth-century Dutch artist Gerard ter Borch’s portrait of Jacob de Graeff. The Saint Louis Art Museum purchased the artist’s 2018 Charles I , which is based on a 1633 portrait of the English king by Daniel Martensz Mytens the Elder.