Blues for Smoke | Art & Artists

Exhibition works

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  Romare Bearden (1911–1988), Pittsburgh Memory, 1964. Collage of printed papers with graphite on cardboard, 8 1/2 × 11 3/4 in. (21.59 × 29.85 cm). Collection of halley k harrisburg and Michael Rosenfeld, New York. Art © Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY

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  Kerry James Marshall, Souvenir IV, 1998. Acrylic, glitter, and screenprint on paper and tarpaulin with metal grommets, 107 5/8 × 157 1/2 in. (273.4 × 400.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee 98.56. © Kerry James Marshall; courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

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  Alma Thomas (1891–1978), Late Night Reflections, 1972. Acrylic on canvas, 28 ¾ x 44 inches. Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Museum purchase, Fund for Acquisitions and bequest of Marjorie Pfeffer by exchange.© Estate of Alma W. Thomas. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion

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  Mark Morrisroe (1959–1989), Light and Shadow, 1986. C-print, negative sandwich, retouched with ink and inscribed with marker, 19 15/16 × 15 15/16 inches. The Estate of Mark Morrisroe (Ringier Collection) at Fotomuseum Winterthur

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  Martin Wong (1946–1999), La Vida, 1988. Oil on canvas, 96 × 114 inches. Yale University Art Gallery Charles B. Benenson, B.A. 1933, Collection Photo courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery

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  Jack Whitten (b. 1939), Black Table Setting (Homage to Duke Ellington), 1974. Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 60 inches. Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with funds provided by Jack Drake and Joel and Karen Piassick

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  David Hammons (b. 1943), Chasing the Blue Train, 1989. Mixed media, dimensions variable. Collection S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium. Photograph by Dirk Pauwels

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  Glenn Ligon (b. 1960), No Room (Gold) #42, 2007. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 32 × 32 inches. © Glenn Ligon. Courtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Photograph by Joshua White

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  Melvin Edwards (b. 1937), Write When You Can, 1991. Welded steel, 13 × 10 1/2 × 8 in. (33.02 × 26.67 × 20.32 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Alexander Gray Associates