CULTURE AND SOCIETY

The Studio Museum in Harlem

The museum is dedicated to modern art and exhibits exclusively artifacts and works of art by African-American artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The institution was founded in 1967 with the idea of creating a space to work and exhibit to contemporary African American artists.
The permanent collection contains about 2,000 works, including drawings, pastels, prints, photographs, works and multimedia installations and includes works by Terry Adkins, Romare Bearden, Skunder Boghossian, Robert Colescott, Gregory Coates, Melvin Edwards, Kira Lynn Harris, Richard Hunt, Hector Hyppolite, Serge Jolimeau, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Wardell Milano, Philome Obin, Betye Saar, Nari Ward and Hale Woodruff. There is also an extensive archive of the work of photographer James VanDerZee, a well-known chronicler of the Harlem community in the 1920s, 30s and 40s.
The current location was built in 2015 to a design by award-winning architect David Adjaye.

References

Kenneth T. Jackson, Lisa Keller, Nancy Flood. The Encyclopedia of New York City: Second Edition. Yale University Press, 2010. p. 1256
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