THE NEW YORK TIMES
Show Us Your Walls
By Warren Strugatch
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| Lyn and E.T. Williams in their Manhattan home between two works by Claude Lawrence: left, “Yard — An Ode to Charlie Parker” and “At the Hop.”CreditCreditDaniel Dorsa for The New York Times |
E. T. Williams Jr. and his wife, Lyn, began collecting art as newlyweds living in Baltimore in the mid-60s. “We had a couple of friends who were artists and we bought works from them,” said Ms. Williams, who studied art and briefly hoped to be a sculptor. As their collection grew, the Williamses, too, took part in art circles. They began to invite students and fledgling collectors as well as established curators and museum directors for casual exhibitions at home, which continue today. “We moved from prints into original works” as he switched to real estate finance, which gave the couple “more cash on hand,” Mr. Williams said. [
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| Romare Bearden’s “Blue Silk Stockings” (1981). |
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| Top, Thornton Dial’s “Woman Posing on Chair with Cat” (1995) and below, his “The Day the Tigers Got Together” (2000), with a Nigerian Benin warrior figure, right, in the Williams home. |
