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What I know: Gifts from Gordon W. Bailey , June 26 - October 11, 2021

 Series

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Materials include master checklists; exhibition design materials; installation images; and publications pertainting to exhibitions organized and hosted by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in 2021.

Dates

  • June 26 - October 11, 2021

Conditions Governing Use

Images in this collection are either protected by copyright or are the property of CBMAA .

For requests to license high resolution art images, please contact reproductions@crystalbridges.org

For requests to license high resolution installation images, please contact library@crystalbridges.org

Exhibition Summary

What I Know is an exhibition about knowledge featuring artworks created with a variety of media by Leroy Almon, Thornton Dial, Sam Doyle, Minnie Evans, Josephus Farmer, Roy Ferdinand, Bessie Harvey, Clementine Hunter, Joe Light, Ronald Lockett, Sister Gertrude Morgan, J.B. Murray, Sulton Rogers, Nellie Mae Rowe, Welmon Sharlhorne, Herbert Singleton, and Purvis Young. The artists’ practices and intentions differ, still, whether moved by divine inspiration, sociopolitical observation, or an indelible memory, all of them imbued their impassioned works with wisdom gleaned from lives well lived, proclaiming: this is What I Know.

Extent

From the Class: In progress Linear Feet

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Archives Repository

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