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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture > Exhibitions Bearing Witness: African-American Vernacular Art of the SouthFrom January 25, 1997 through March 29, 1997
A display of one of the world's outstanding collections of present-day work by self-taught, Southern African-American artists. Drawn entirely from the holdings of Ronald and June Shelp are 80 works by 25 artists, ranging from assemblages made out of root, hair, and costume jewelry by the late Bessie Harvey of Dallas, Georgia, to large-scale canvases and works on paper created by Thornton Dial, Sr. of Bessemer, Alabama. Approximately one-third of the works on view are being exhibited for the first time. |
