Thanks for highlighting this exhibition and your impressions of it, Rick, and for your well-chosen links.
It's good to see it demonstrated that the work of early 20th-century Black American artists was definitely in conversation with what else was going on in modernism, often using the same visual vocabulary as their artistic contemporaries and recent predecessors in Europe.
Too often the celebration of Black artists is so narrowly focused on trying to represent the underrepresented that it overcompensates, and ends up making their work look parochial, isolated, and uninformed, when it wasn't.
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