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| Norman Lewis, Hence We Come. The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection |
Museums are starting to announce post-pandemic shows. Pepperdine University's Weisman Museum is planning a show around the trove of African-American art and historical documents assembled by L.A.-based collectors Bernard and Shirley Kinsey, both Pepperdine alumni. The widely travelled collection spans early photographs, rare books, and documents of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights movement; 19th-century landscapes, 20th century figuration, and abstractions by Norman Lewis, Merton Simpson, Alma Thomas, and Beauford Delaney. Though single-collector shows inevitably lack the depth of loan exhibitions sourced from many collections, this one has a number of artists not normally represented in L.A. museums.
The Weisman show is planned to run January to March 2022.
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| Alma Thomas, untitled, 1970 |
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| Charles Alston, Portrait of a Girl, 1940 |
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| Grafton Tyler Brown, Eagle's Nest, Yellowstone, 1890 |
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| Unknown maker, Union Solider (tintype), 1864 |
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