African American Art

Post-war abstraction is headlined by an important 1951 oil painting by Norman Lewis—Untitled (Exaltation), which displays Lewis's unique vision of nocturnal New York and was exhibited in the artist's 2016 retrospective. Other abstract highlights range from Charles Alston's 1958 color field painting Blue Haze, to a monumental 1981–82 pigment work on paper by Ed Clark. Figurative highlights include a scarce 1944 Norman Lewis painting, The Dishwasher; a 1970 Timothy Washington engraved aluminum collage; two small 1961 Bob Thompson oil paintings from his Paris period; and a 2001 Richard Mayhew portrait, Waiting for Reparation, Justice, Restitution, Inclusion.