Sentences with phrase «african rock art»

Other sources devoured by Basquiat included Paul Richer's Artistic Anatomy, a 1966 volume entitled Leonardo da Vinci and Burchard Brentjes» book African Rock Art, thus exposing the artist to a diverse array of anatomical representation - from ethnic cave painting to the Renaissance and beyond.

The giraffe, one of two large giraffe carvings on the same outcrop, stands a remarkable 20 feet tall — and is probably the largest known prehistoric engraving, says documentary photographer David Coulson of the Trust for African Rock Art, who reported its existence last year.

Together with Qings account, the / Xam testimonies have helped show that African rock art is much more than mere decoration or reflections of everyday concerns.

Not exact matches

Through the combined efforts of a spectrum of specialists, we hope to ensure that the rock art will endure as a testament to an ancient African culture, tragically displaced.

As a 22 - year - old single woman I'm pretty much living in the thickest part of the modern hookup culture — perfecting the art of getting the right guy to Three new discoveries in a month rock our African origins The evolutionary story of modern humans just got more complicated

A Rock art creation that provides you with a warm African ambience.

Group Exhibition 2000 Charles Sumner School Museum and Archives, Washington, DC, Group Exhibition 1999 Rock Creek Gallery, Washington, DC, Group Exhibition 1986 Gallery 1199, New York, NY, Joining Forces, Group Exhibition, Curators: Charles Abramson, Senga Nengudi - Fittz 1986 20 West Theatre, Harlem, NY, Apartheid and Other White Lies, Solo Exhibition 1986 The Muse Community Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Group Exhibition 1985 Howard University, Washington, DC Birth of a Blackwomanartist, Thesis show 1985 The Center for Art & Culture of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY, A Common Thread: Caribbean & African - American Women's Tribute to Wanda Ducoste Wiener, Esq., Group Exhibition 1980 Howard University Law School, Washington, DC, Group Exhibition 1979 Washington Conference of Artists, Chicago, IL, Group Exhibition 1979 Howard University, Washington, DC Student Show, Group Exhibition 1979 Smith - Norton Gallery Washington, DC, Group Exhibition 1979 Shrewsbury Library, Monmouth County NJ, Monmouth County Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority exhibition, show.

Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN LaJolla Museum of Art, LaJolla, CA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC Munson - Williams - Proctor Institute, Museum of Art, Utica, NY Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Museum of the National Center of Afro American Artists, Boston, MA Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Tougaloo College Art Collection, Tougaloo, MS University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA University of Louisville, Louisville, KY Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

ASHE: Improvisation and Recycling in African - American Visionary Art, Diggs Gallery at Winston Salem State University, Winston - Salem, NC Figurines, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY Passionate Visions of the American South: Self - Taught Artists from 1940 to the Present, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Collectorʼs Show, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Dream Singers, Storytellers: An African - American Presence, Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan and Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ Not By Luck: Self - Taught Artists in the American South, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars: Death, Reverence, and the Struggle for Equality in America, Betty Rymer Gallery at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Lemus» work has been featured is several group exhibitions including, OZ: New Offerings From Angel City at Museo Regional Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico, the 09 New Insight exhibition, curated by Sussanne Ghez, at Art Chicago, V Bienal Internacional de Estandartes at CECUT in Tijuana, Mexico, Common Ground at the California African American Museum, Chicano: Pronouncing Diversity at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Mexican Cultural Institute in Los Angeles, Latino Art Museum in Pomona, The DA Center for the Arts in Pomona, the Indianapolis Art Center, Galeria Nina Moreno in Tijuana, Mexico.

In One Stone Head, 1997, which has Mr. Hammons gluing a tight afro (complete with a razored»90s geometric design) onto a head - sized rock that sits atop an old - fashioned hat, the artist deftly reference the African - American styles past and present — from the jazzman to the hip - hop artist — while nodding, however improbably, to the whole human history of art, from the objet trouvé exploits of Marcel Duchamp to Easter Island.

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL The City College of New York, New York, NY Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries, Atlanta, GA Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME Deutsche Akademie Der Kunst, Berlin, Germany Fisk University Art Galleries, Nashville, TN Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Howard University Gallery of Art, Howard University, Washington, DC Intergrafik, Berlin, Germany Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Champaign, IL Library of Congress, Washington, DC Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles County Public Library, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles State College, Los Angeles, CA Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Chicago, IL Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Academy Museum, New York, NY National Afro - American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, OH The National Archives, Washington, DC National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA Pioneer Museum and Haggin Galleries, Stockton, CA Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York, NY Selma Burke Art Center, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany Syracuse University Art Galleries, Syracuse, NY Taller de Grafica Popular, Mexico City, Mexico Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Academy, Berkeley, CA University of Illinois, Chicago, IL University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita, KS The Wylie and May Louise Jones Gallery, Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA

1996 Twentieth Century African American Art from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Walker, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AK

The Adept New American Museum, Mt. Vernon, NY The African - American Museum, Dallas, TX Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Atlanta University Collection of African American Art, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Diggs Gallery, Winston - Salem State University, Winston - Salem, NC Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, MA Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Northeast Texas Community College, Mount Pleasant, TX Palmer Art Museum, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Paris Public Library, Paris, TX Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York, NY Texas Southern University Museum, Houston, TX Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT

Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC The Anne Gary Parnell Art Gallery, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA DePaul University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IO Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, TX Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, Skokie, IL Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Munson - Williams Proctor Institute, Utica, NY National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA The Paul R. Jones Collection, University of Delaware, Newark, DE Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Saint Joseph College Art Gallery, West Hartford, CT St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Sweet Briar College Art Gallery, Sweet Briar, VA The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI University of Pennsylvania, Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

«time / frame,» The Jack S Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, January 25 — July 28, 2002 «Fifty Years of Supporting the New: The Charles H Carpenter Jr Collection,» Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, September 22 — December 31, 2002 «In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr Martin Luther King Jr,» Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (organizer), Charles H Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI, January 12 — August 4, 2002; traveled to Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, September 7 — December 1, 2002; Frederick R Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, January 19 — April 6, 2003; International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May 15 — July 27, 2003; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, August 30 — November 9, 2003; and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL, January 3 — March 28, 2004; catalogue «LIFE DEATH LOVE HATE PLEASURE PAIN: Selected works from the MCA Permanent Collection,» Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, 2002 «Structures of Difference,» curated by Nicholas Baume, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 2002 «Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection,» Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Champaign, IL, curated by Joself Helfenstein: traveled to Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH «Recent Acquisitions,» Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, Reims, France, 2002 «Pushing Aesthetic Boundaries: Contemporary Prints,» Gallery M, New York, NY, 2002 «Charles H Carpenter, Jr Collection: Fifty Years of Supporting the New,» Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 2002 «New York, New Work, Now!

Represented South Africa at the Venice Biennale 1959 Solo exhibition of woodcuts at Wittenborn Gallery, New York Represented SA Touring exhibition, South and North America Painting and Sculpture, National Arts Club, New York Represented South Africa at Sao Paulo Biennale Represented on The National Arts Club International Exhibition of painting and sculpture, New York 1960 Represented South Africa at Ljubljana, Yugoslavia International graphic exhibition Exhibition of incised woodblock paintings at the Egon Guenther Gallery, Johannesburg 1961 Large mural, the Apocalypse, in Our Lady of the Rosary Roman Catholic Church Motsethabong, Welkom, Orange Free State Represented South Africa at Sao Paulo Biennale Made Stations of the Cross for Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church, Rivonia, Sandton 1962 Guest Artist of the year at the Transvaal Academy Exhibition of Rock Faces, Egon Guenther Gallery, Johannesburg Designed tapestry St. Anne, woven by Marguerite Stephens, and carved the Stations of the Cross for St. Anne's Anglican Church, Piggs Peak, Swaziland 1963 Appointed President of South African Council of Artists in succession to Walter Battiss Principal witness against State at the Harold Ruben blasphemy trial Represented South Africa at International Conference of Plastic Arts at UNESCO, New York Became founder member of the Amadlozi Group consisting of Eduardo Villa, Sydney Kumalo, Cecily Sash and Guiseppo Cattaneo.

1993 Lines and Myths: Abstraction in American Art, 1941 - 1951, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY Charles Alston and Norman Lewis, Innovators of the African - American Aesthetic, Isobel Neal Gallery, Chicago, IL Alone in a Crowd, Prints of the 1930s - 1940s by African - American Artists - From the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams, American Federation of the Arts, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ; The Equitable Gallery, New York, NY; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England; New York State Museum, Albany, NY; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Gibbs Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; The St. Louis Museum, St. Louis, MO; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA On Paper: The Figure in Twentieth Century American Art, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY

Other notable attractions include, Cleveland's Severance Hall, Museum of Art and the Fine Arts Garden, the Rock & Roll Museum, Crawford Auto Aviation Museum, and the African American Museum.