The Paul R. Jones Museum announces the opening show of the fall exhibition season: Recent Acquisitions: Additions to the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art at The University of Alabama 2015 – 2022. The works, including paintings, prints and mixed media works, will be on view from First Friday, August 5 through September 23, 2022, with a reception on First Friday, September 2, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Curator Emily Bibb has selected a variety of works acquired during the past seven years, including works by artists such as Beverly Buchanan, Ukuu Tafari (Antjuan Oden), Clementine Hunter, and Radcliffe Bailey. Bibb noted in the introduction to the catalog that “these additions to the collection allow us to show work by influential artists like Willie Cole, Thornton Dial and Purvis Young, and to add more art by female artists, younger artists at the beginning of their careers, and artists working outside the mainstream.
Recent Acquisitions has been made possible by grants from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
