Things Kept

Date 1970
Technique Lithograph
Price $4,000.00
Exhibitor Thomas French Fine Art LLC
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Lithograph, 1970

Signed & titled in pencil

Annotated: "Artists Proof" in pencil

Printed on RIVES wove paper

Image size: 12 x 14 3/4 inches
Sheet size:  22 3/8 x 19 inches
Condition: Excellent, never matted

Russ Thompson (Born 1922-    Jamaica

Part of the late 1960’s Black Emergency Cultural Coalition along with Benny Andrews
The Black Emergency Cultural Coalition Inc. (BECC) was organized in January 1969 by a group of African American artists in response to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Harlem on My Mind" exhibit, which omitted the contributions of African American painters and sculptors to the Harlem community. Members of this initial group that protested against the exhibit included several prominent African American artists, including Benny Andrews and Clifford R. Joseph, cofounders of the BECC. The primary goal of the group was to agitate for change in the major art museums in New York City for greater representation of African American artists and their work in these museums.

Studied: Pratt Inst.; Carlyle College; NY Sch. Mod. Photography
Exhibited: MoMA; BM, 1968; Nordness Gals., NYC; Phila. Civic Center; Ruder & Finn FA, 1969; Smithsonian Inst.; Mount Holyoke College, 1969; BMFA, 1970; RISD, 1969; Mem. Art Gal., Rochester, NY, 1969; SFMA, 1969; Contemp. Arts Mus., Houston, TX, 1970; NJ State Mus., 1970; Roberson Center for the Arts & Sciences, Binghampton, NY, 1970; UC Santa Barbara, 1970; Plaza Hotel, NYC; Westchester Art Soc. Gal. (prize); Nassau Community College; Brooklyn Pub. Lib.; Allentown (PA) Art Festival; Quinnipiac College, CT; Parrish Art Mus.; NY State Pavillion; Huntington Township Art Lg. Awards: Mitchell College, CT; BM; Armonk Lib. Show Award; Bedford Hills Lib. Show Award.

Sources: Cederholm, Afro-American Artists.


Public Collections:

Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Brooklyn Museum
Museum  of Modern Art, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum

Exhibitions: MOMA
                    Brooklyn Museum, 1968
                    Nordness Galleries, NYC
                    Smithsonian Institution
                    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1970
                    Rhode Island School of Design, 1969
                    San Francisco Museum of Art, 1969
                    Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1970
                    Parrish Art Museum