Eight years after he started, he proposed the company began collecting African-American art.

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And in 1965, Golden State set out to build a collection of African-American art that would embody the community's progress.

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The DIA's case is strengthened by its broad collections, which have depth in American, contemporary and African-American art as well as European art.

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Entertainer Harry Belafonte has been collecting African-American art since the 1950s, and Oprah Winfrey has been buying a mix of work, including pieces by contemporary artists like Whitfield Lovell.

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"What's happened in the last five years is a paradigm shift, where you have general collectors of American art interested in adding African-American art to their collections, " observes Steven L. Jones, 61, an African-American dealer in Philadelphia.

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And even though many citizens shared conventional prejudices about African cultures, the substantial African-American population offered the potential for a radically different appreciation of African art.

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Today we look at the art of acting, who's nurturing young African-American talent and where will the next generation of black actors come from.

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Little is known about what the ambitious young painter saw in Paris, apart from his visiting the doyen of African-American artists, the expatriate symbolist Henry Ossawa Tanner, and beginning to collect African art.

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