The presentation begins with the Spiral group in New York, which Lewis, Romare Bearden, Charles Alston, and Hale Woodruff founded in 1963 as a means for members to discuss their role as African American artists working amid civil rights struggles. It is not always tidy and overlaps occur, but effective links are drawn between the artists, the few galleries that exhibited them, and the historic events that inspired their work. The show is organized largely by artistic groupings and styles over twelve rooms. Tate curators Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley faced a tough task in pulling the many works and themes into a cohesive whole. A tale of trauma and revolution as well as strength and hope shines through. Encompassing political posters, photographs, collages, sculptures, films, prints, and paintings, the show demonstrates different ways black artists from across the United States contended with issues of identity and representation and the role of art in a society pervaded with racism. 3, 2019), brings together works by more than sixty mainly African American artists who gave energetic voice to such questions during this period of mass marches, assassinations, and KKK attacks. “Soul of a Nation,” which travels to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas (Feb.
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