African American Art Featured at Huntsville Museum
By Jean Brandau, About.com
"That was in the beginning," says Evans. "...I almost never saw any art by African Americans. If there was any, they didn't have any black figures in the paintings." Eventually Walter Evans changed his criteria. "I have evolved from the period where I had to see a black image in the work. I was being very narrow-minded."
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- Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art
- The Beginning of the Collection
- Criteria for the Collection
- What Black Artists Were Painting
- From the Civil War Up to Today
- Dr. Evans's Interests
- Observing Art & Life
- Landscapes, Portraits, Sculptures
- Museum Info
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