 – Going on view Saturday, February 8, 2025, “The Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art” will be 65 works in this exhibition in the…){kind=link}
FRESNO, CALIF (PNAN) – Going on view Saturday, February 8, 2025, “The Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art” will be 65 works in this exhibition in the Fig Garden, Duncan and Hallowell Galleries, from the late 1800s to 2002, at the Fresno Art Museum. One of the country’s major African American art collections, this exhibit only represents just a fraction of what is contained in the Kelley Collection of San Antonio, Texas.
Included in the exhibition are drawings, etchings, lithographs, watercolors, pastels, acrylics, gouaches, linoleum and color screen prints by such noted artists as, Ron Adams, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Charles White, and many other outstanding lesser known artists.
First exhibited in 2009, this exhibition has been shown at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas; the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas; the Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph, Michigan; and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, among other museums. Art historian and Professor Emeritus David Driskell at the University of Maryland at College Park, calls the Collection “one of the finest that has been assembled tracing the history of African American art.”
The show will remain on view through June 29, 2025 and was organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions of Los Angeles. For other upcoming shows at the Museum see: https://fresnoartmuseum.org.