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Presenter Jack Rasmussen, Director and Curator of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, focuses this session on the “Long Sixties: Washington Paintings in the Watkins and Corcoran Legacy Collections (1957-1982).” Despite the supposedly raised consciousness of the 1960s, the works of Black artists were not often collected or even now represented in museum collections. One of the reasons is Washington’s determined avoidance of controversy and the corporate preference for “safe art” produced by the Washington Color School.  The art of Jeff Donaldson, Sam Gilliam, Frank Anthony Smith, Carroll Sockwell, Alma Thomas, Franklin White, and Kenneth Victor Young will be discussed.

Art: Franklin White (b. 1943), Ashtray, 1973. Oil on canvas, canvas size: 84 × 168 in. Gift from the Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Gift of Gray Martin), 2018.15.2304