MoAD presents: ”The Hewitt Collection of African American Art”
Oct 15, 2008 – Jan 11, 2009
58 paintings collected by John & Vivian Hewitt of New York from 1949 – 1998 will be on display starting October 15. Some of the artists are well known, Romare Bearden, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Ann Tanksley, Jonathan Green, others not, but all represent the wide range of subjects, themes, techniques used by African Americans of the last 100 years or more.
The Hewitt Collection * 10/15/08 – 1/11/09
MoAD – Museum of the African Diaspora, 685 Mission St., San Francisco, CA
BTW: Vivian Hewitt’s cousin is acclaimed Phoenix, AZ artist and teacher, Dr. J. Eugene Grigsby
(Image: Ann Tanksley, Canal Builders II, 1989, Oil on linen)