In early February, the Fine Arts Museums announced the acquisition from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Atlanta of 62 works by African-American artists from the Southern United States. These works address some of the most profound and persistent issues in American society, including race, class, gender, and religion.
An exhibition featuring all of the works from the acquisition, Revelations: Art from the African American South, will open on June 3, 2017, at the de Young. Below are three featured works from the show, accompanied by quotes from the artists themselves.