June 3, 2011 – December 31, 2011

Co-curated by Halima Taha, Ph.D. and Charles E. Bethea the exhibition will feature approximately 90 works of art (from 30 Af.Am Museums) including works on canvas and paper, sculpture and mixed media from many noted American 19th and early 20th century artists including Henry O. Tanner, William Edouard Scott, Metta Warrick Fuller, Augusta Savage, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence and Elizabeth Catlett. Buried Treasures will continue in the vein of pioneering exhibitions such as Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art, 1800-1950, (1985) and Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, (1999), by mining the largely obscured works and high caliber of black art as it relates the canon of American art. The exhibition will take a traditional, academic approach to scholarly research documenting each artist’s biographies particularly viewpoints on race and class as it relates to their art within the context of American society.

Organized by the DuSable Museum of African American History; Curated by Charles E. Bethea and Dr. Halima Taha

DuSable Museum of African American History
740 E 56th Place