Smithsonian to showcase Bill Cosby art collection
Most of us think of Bill Cosby as a comedian rather than an art collector. Bill Cosby and his wife, Camille, have been collecting art for several decades and the Smithsonian will be exhibiting 62 works from their large collection this fall. The art will be on loan to the National Museum of African Art for an exhibition that juxtaposes African art and African American art.
“Works by renowned African-American artists such as Beauford Delaney, Faith Ringgold, Jacob Lawrence, Augusta Savage and Henry Ossawa Tanner from the Cosby collection will go on view in November. These and other works of African American art will be placed in thematic dialogue with African traditional works of art, including a Kongo female figure with child from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a lidded bowl from Nigeria by the Yoruba master artist Olowe of Ise and a Nuna butterfly mask from Burkina Faso, and with modern and contemporary works of art by artists, including Fodé Camara from Senegal, Godfried Donkor from Ghana and William Kentridge from South Africa.” - ArtFix Daily News Feed
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