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Collection
The Studio Museum in Harlem’s permanent collection represents more than 700 artists, spans 200 years of history, and includes nearly 9,000 works of art. We are thrilled to be in the early stages of a long-term project to share our collection online and prompt a new era of exploration and presentation.
The Studio Museum in Harlem’s permanent collection is a record of the growth of the institution and its activities, and includes nearly 9,000 works of art, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, watercolors, photographs, videos and mixed-media installations.
The web-based thematic series Collection in Context provides fresh perspectives on artworks in the Studio Museum’s permanent collection. Members of the Museum’s curatorial department draw out themes found within a diverse range of works, providing new ways of looking at Black artistic production since the early nineteenth century.
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NEW YORK (AP) — What does “home” mean? Different things to all of us, of course. A place of love,…
NEW YORK (AP) — What does “home” mean? Different things to all of us, of course.
A place of love, for some. One fraught with trouble, for others. An elusive concept for too many.
“Home isn’t always a place of comfort. Nor is it always a location, or a place. Home can be a state of mind,” says Brooke Wyatt, curator of a show at the American Folk Art Museum called “Somewhere to Roost.”
The collection of 60 pieces explores artists’ conceptions of home in paintings, illustrations, folk art objects, collages, blanket chests, quilts and family photographs.
Home as a nest…
The exhibition’s title piece, “‘Birds Gotta Have Somewhere to Roost” by Thornton Dial Sr., is a collage of weathered wood, burlap, carpet and tin. At first glance, it’s a scramble of tossed-away scraps. But consider the title and you imagine something else: birds gathering the bits to make a nest. Dial’s work, including many such assemblages of found materials, are in museum collections around the U.S.
Birds are depicted in a pen-and ink drawing made in the 1800s by V.H. Furnier, an artist and penmanship teacher in Indiana, Pennsylvania. It includes the words “Home Sweet Home,R