ARTNET NEWS
By Brian Boucher
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| Purvis Young, Untitled, ca. 1988. Photo courtesy Newark Museum |
NEW JERSEY---An exhibition opening [June 17] at the
Newark Museum highlights the institution's holdings of African-American artists, with a spotlight on self-taught practitioners, who make up half the show's roster. A
Purvis Young painting, showing a central figure holding aloft what appears to be a body, might be a deposition or lamentation scene....
[Emma] Amos's seven-foot-wide painting
The Heavens Rain (1990) presents an apocalyptic scenario, with people, books, and even a horse plummeting down from a black sky in what Bloom calls a “startling" work. [
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Newark Museum: “Modern Heroics: 75 Years of African-American Expressionism at the Newark Museum" (Ends January 8, 2017); 49 Washington Street
Newark, New Jersey; 973.596.6550; newarkmuseum.org
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| Emma Amos, The Heavens Rain, 1990. Photo courtesy Newark Museum. |
