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.
"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.
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.
Eight years after he started, he proposed the company began collecting African-American art.
And in 1965, Golden State set out to build a collection of African-American art that would embody the community's progress.
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.
The museum is known for its collections of Native American and African art, while Asian art is showcased at the Seattle Museum of Asian Ar t (1400 East Prospect Street, Volunteer Park) in Capitol Hill.
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.
Wright Museum of African American History, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Pewabic Pottery and the Motown Museum.
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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Many are not cognizant of the African designers working for the coveted Italian, French or even American branded lines using African leather and organic cotton, nor is there a realization of the state of the art manufacturing facilities all over the continent.
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