CURRENT ISSUE Vol. 22, no 1

Contents:

A history by David Brigham of Philadelphia's Pyramid Club of African American professional and businessmen who, in the 1940s, advanced African American art with annual exhibitions;

"Blues on the Brush: Musical Influence in Rose Piper's Blues and Negro Folk Songs Paintings of the Mid-1940s" by Graham Taylor. Rose Piper was a free spirit who, influenced by blues poet and scholar Sterling Brown, traveled South to do research for her blues-based artwork;

A three-part report on the impact of Swann Galleries' semi-annual, African American fine art auctions by Shawnya Harris, Jerry Langley and Cherilyn Wright. One impact is that the Swann auctions have set career, record prices for A number of African American artists;

"Spirit Light: Betty Blayton From Center Out," a chronicle of the life and work of New York City-based painter ("breaking ground has been Blayton's path for a long time," says author Toni Wynn);

"Cultivating Art Savvy in St. Louis and Beyond." Margaret Gray Bayne reports on The St. Louis Art Museum's Friends of African American Art program on the move and at home;

A look at the African American presence at Art Basel/Miami, a major international art festival of contemporary fine art by Myrtis Bedolla;

Plus, a round up of news and reviews.

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