For Met Museum, a Major Gift of Works by African-American Artists From the South

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Randy Kennedy

Thornton Dial (American artist, 1928-) The Last Day of Martin Luther King 1992 "

NEW YORK---The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday that it had received a major gift of 20th-century works by African-American artists from the South, including 10 pieces by Thornton Dial and 20 important quilts made by the Gee’s Bend quilters of Alabama. The works, 57 in all, are being donated by the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, which was begun in 2010 by the scholar and collector William S. Arnett to raise the profile of art by self-taught African-Americans. An exhibition at the Met devoted to works from the foundation is planned for the fall of 2016. [link]