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Color Field Painting - Sculpture - African American Art - Figurative Expressionism
Old Master and Modern Drawings and Prints - Pattern and Decoration

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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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