Ms. Cooper Cafritz was a voracious collector and champion of African and African - American artists, including Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, El Anatsui, Kerry James Marshall and Kehinde Wiley,
whose unconventional portrait of President Barack Obama, as a seated figure amid greenery, was unveiled this month.
Not exact matches
In 2008, she began a series of
unconventional portraits of artists» shoes and to date has painted more than 120
portraits of both world renowned and obscure contemporary artists
whose work she admires.
A retrospective (until 2 October 2016) of the American artist
whose psychologically charged
portraits tell intimate and
unconventional stories, as much about people living on the margins of society and in subcultures as about the New York cultural elite and her own family.