Fired Up! Ready to Go!: Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art. The Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz

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After decades of art collecting, prominent Washington D.C.–based totally activist, philanthropist, and founding father of the august Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Peggy Cooper Cafritz had amassed one of the vital vital collections of work by artists of color within the country. But in 2009, the more than 300 works that comprised this abnormal collection were destroyed within 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, at the side of works that she has collected because the fire, in addition to vital contributions by preeminent curators and artists.

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