The African American Experience Collection
Day 2 - February 11, 2024 - Sunday - 10am EST Lots 405 - 698
This is Day 2 of a 2-Day Sale
Includes objects and ephemera put together by collector, Curator and Social Historian, Richard Harris. This expansive collection depicts and documents The African America Experience through the lens of Slavery, The Civil War, KKK/Lynching, The Civil Rights Movement, Black Power to today’s Media headlines of “Hands Up”/ “Black Lives Matter.”
Richard graduated from Queens College, and found his way to an apprenticeship with an art dealer, which fueled what became Richard’s profession and passion for a lifetime. Unbeknownst to most, but with great ferocity, Richard began to amass, over many decades, a number of different personal collections, pieces from which formed the nucleus of exhibitions at the Chicago Cultural Center, the Wellcome Museum in London, the Figge Museum in IA, and even the Met, where a few of his most important pieces were displayed.
