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The Kinsey Collection. Artful Impact Prepared by Kelly Little. From the Beginning. Bernard, the former Xerox vice president who became chief operating officer and co-chair of RLA (Rebuild Los Angeles) in Los Angeles in 1992, and his wife Shirley, have been collecting for more than 35 years.
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TheKinsey Collection Artful Impact Prepared by Kelly Little
From the Beginning • Bernard, the former Xerox vice president who became chief operating officer and co-chair of RLA (Rebuild Los Angeles) in Los Angeles in 1992, and his wife Shirley, have been collecting for more than 35 years. • They started collecting as a way to savor and share their travels, but their art soon became a repository for African American intellectual, historic and artistic works.
Over 100 Items, Over 30 Years • As the Kinseys evolved as collectors, they began to identify and collect the work of artists who make up and define African American art, such as Lane, Tina Allen, Ernie Barnes, Ed Dwight and Richard Mayhew. Moreover, they collect documents that illuminate historical moments. • The collection is the winner of the 2009 Golden Achievement Award, the Sunshine Medallion Award and the 2008 National Medal for Museum and Library Services.
The Buffalo Soldiers 9th Cavalry Parade flag from around 1889.
A Tallahassee Connection • The Kinseys met as college students at the predominantly black Florida A & M in 1963. According to Kinsey, a member of the Kinsey clan has been enrolled at FAMU for the past 50 years. • See the exhibit through March 2010 at Brogan Museum
http://bernardkinsey.blogspot.com/2009/09/kinsey-collection-comes-to-mary-brogan.htmlhttp://bernardkinsey.blogspot.com/2009/09/kinsey-collection-comes-to-mary-brogan.html Thu Oct 22 @06:00PM FAMU Night at The Brogan Museum
About the Collection • ARTIST WONDERWHEEL Google Wonderwheel –found under show options column
Samuel Dunson, Jr. The Cultivators 2000, Oil on Canvas
The Collection includes an original transcript of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Artists, Artifacts in the Collection • Artists like Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Sam Gilliam, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, and Henry O. Tanner, more recent African American art, such as Lane, Tina Allen, Ernie Barnes, Ed Dwight and Richard Mayhew; as well as historical documents and artifacts of Benjamin Banneker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Alain Locke, Phillis Wheatley, and Malcolm X make up the ninetyplus objects that reveal important aspects of American history and culture.
This is a bust of African-American abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass. The bronze sculpture was done in 2003 by artist Tim Allen.
This is a portrait of Sen. Hiram Rhoades Revels, taken around 1870. Revels, of mixed African and Native American blood, was the first black man elected to the Senate during Reconstruction.
"Boy's Head," a linocut, was done in 1931 by artist James Wells.
"Gusting Up to 35" is oil on board and was painted in 1972 by Palmer Hayden.
This woodcut, "Survivor," was done by Elizabeth Catlett in 1983.
This bronze sculpture, "Old Masai Woman," was done by Ed Dwight in 1986.
Listen, Look, Learn… Life • Chester Williams, an art professor and sculptor at FAMU, believes that this is an opportunity for students to broaden their horizons and learn about the history and legacy of African-Americans. • The collection, which has previously been on display in Los Angeles, Cincinnati, Ohio, Chicago and West Palm Beach will be on display at the Brogan Museum through March 21, 2010.
