(The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco include the de Young in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park.)

Campbell, director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, said in a statement. “The artists featured in ‘Soul of a Nation’ were on the front lines of creating social and political change,” Thomas P. Works by Emory Douglas are already included in the exhibition, with an entire section devoted to the graphic, political images he produced for the Oakland-based Black Panther Party’s newspaper. The de Young said its presentation of “Soul of a Nation” will include an expanded selection of works by artists with connections to the San Francisco Bay area.

Plans to host the exhibition in San Francisco extend the tour schedule for a second time. In August, the tour was extended when The Broad announced it was taking the show, bringing it to the West Coast for the first time.Ī formidable contingent of Los Angeles artists appears in the show, figures such as Hammons, Saar, Melvin Edwards, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Senga Nengudi, John Outterbridge, Noah Purifoy, and Timothy Washington. Initially, “Soul of a Nation” was scheduled to travel from London to two venues in the United States- Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark., and the Brooklyn Museum.

Hendricks, Lorraine O’Grady, Faith Ringgold, and Betye Saar, along with collectives such as Spiral, which was co-founded by Bearden, Chicago-based AfriCOBRA, and Kamoinge, the photography group established in Harlem. The show spans a revolutionary period in American history and creativity during which artists responded to the unrest, change, and pride brought by the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power era.įeatured artists include Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, Barkley L. Organized by Mark Godfrey and Zoé Whitley at the Tate Modern in London, “Soul of a Nation” debuted in July 2017. The de Young announced yesterday that it was adding the landmark exhibition to its fall schedule. The show is currently on view in Los Angeles at The Broad (March 23-Sept. “Soul of a Nation” presents about 150 works by more than 60 black artists active between 1963-1983. The exhibition is headed to the de Young Museum in San Francisco, where it will open Nov. A SECOND CALIFORNIA STOP has been added to the “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power” tour.

Soul of a Nation by Mark Godfrey