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Roy Ferdinand (1959-2004)

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Purvis Young

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In Collection: Horace Pippin

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Thornton Dial : Mr. Dial’s America

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Kenneth Aidoo

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He decides to make series of portraits of black men, heroes, courageous soldiers, sometimes also influential women, who lived in a time or operated under circumstances in which their blackness had no negative connotation. Figures that are wrongly missing in the canon.

Rob Perrée on the work of Kenneth Aidoo.
Black is the color of my true loves hair, 2022
First published: November 2022,

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