I would still be doing that." That was a video about the African-American artist Jacob Lawrence made by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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Johnson bought most of his art in 1998, when he learned that a significant body of work, the Barnett-Aden collection, was for sale by the Florida Education Fund, along with the building where the art was housed, the National Museum of African American Art, in Tampa.

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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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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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