Fired Up Ready To Go - hardcover

Fired Up! Ready to Go!

Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art. The Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz

Peggy Cooper Cafritz was a Washington D.C.–based activist, philanthropist, art collector, and co-founder of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.The story of her collection is unique among preeminent contemporary art collectors: it is focused exclusively on the work of artists of color. This is the only book to feature those works together and consider their historical importance and will be a general volume of work by African American artists, both established and early career.

After decades of art collecting, prominent Washington D.C.–based activist, philanthropist, and founder of the august Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Peggy Cooper Cafritz had amassed one of the most important collections of work by artists of color in the country. But in 2009, the more than three hundred works that comprised this extraordinary collection were destroyed in the largest residential fire in Washington, D.C. history. The pioneering collection included art by Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas, Yinka Shonibare, Nick Cave, Kehinde Wiley, Barkley L. Hendricks, Lorna Simpson, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others.

This beautifully illustrated volume features 200 of the works that were lost, along with works that she has collected since the fire, as well as important contributions by preeminent curators and artists.

• Author: Peggy Cooper Cafritz
• Published: Feb 2018
• hardcover book
• size: 9 x 10
• pages: 288