At that time, the museum's head of design, Harry Lowe, read a newspaper article about self-taught artist James Hampton (1909-1964), a black veteran who worked as a janitor cleaning government buildings. The story of the building of the Museum of American Art's collection, now numbering about 1,900 works by black artists, began in 1964. It encompasses the work of such artists as Edmonia Lewis (approximately 1843-1911) the first professional African-American sculptor Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937), the most distinguished black artist of the 19th Century and recipient of international acclaim abstract painter Hale Woodruff (1900-1989), who taught in the art department at New York University for more than 20 years and Minnie Evans (1890-1987), from rural Pender County, N.C., the untaught visionary of a world where God, man and nature are synonymous. "Free Within Ourselves" focuses on a diversity of lives and creative styles.
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