Though untrained in Art History, and not having stayed at a Holiday Inn recently, for me Ann Tanksley’s work is a bridge (both generational and stylistic) between the Harlem Renaissance and the current generation of African American Art. I have placed her with her contemporary Al Loving and followed by TAFA, Ghanaian artist, in his own words the “divine drummer trying to materialize the transient, the spiritual, to search the soul of our hopes, fears and visions”. A drummer, keeper of the “collective consciousness” and perhaps pain of the relative monetary, if not intrinsic, value of his works versus his broader peers. Oh, it never occurred to me of another bias of my collecting, vibrant yet understated, harmonious, structured color, until a realtor while checking number of stitches on our beloved Egyptian rug looked up around the room and exclaimed, “you love color”!
“Generations”, African American Masters
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