Al Hirschfeld Foundation Presents AMPLIFIED DIGNITY— Preview

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Sammy Davis Jr in Stop the World I Want to Get Off, 1978 © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation. All rights reserved. www.AlHirschfeldFoundation.org. Press contact: Keith Sherman & Associates info@ksa-pr.com 212.764.7900

WHEN:

Thru March 13

WHERE:

Online at the Al Hirschfeld Foundation website

TICKETS:

Free

Judith Jamison in Echo: Far From Home, 1998 © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation. All rights reserved. www.AlHirschfeldFoundation.org. Press contact: Keith Sherman & Associates info@ksa-pr.com 212.764.7900
Josephine Baker, 1936 © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation. All rights reserved. www.AlHirschfeldFoundation.org. Press contact: Keith Sherman & Associates info@ksa-pr.com 212.764.7900

The Al Hirschfeld Foundation presents an online exhibition entitled Amplified Dignity, the most recent exhibition in the foundation’s Black Art Matters series. 

The series includes renderings of 20th century artists Sammy Davis Jr., Josephine Baker, and the Nicholas Brothers, among others. drawn by artist Al Hirschfeld. According to the curator of the exhibition, Melanie George, “The exhibit contains a mix of well and lesser-known artists, and nameless groups of dancers, who have contributed to the history of dance in America.”

Bunny Briggs in Black and Blue, 1989 © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation. All rights reserved. www.AlHirschfeldFoundation.org. Press contact: Keith Sherman & Associates info@ksa-pr.com 212.764.7900
Charles Honi Coles in My One and Only, 1983 © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation. All rights reserved. www.AlHirschfeldFoundation.org. Press contact: Keith Sherman & Associates info@ksa-pr.com 212.764.7900
Katherine Dunham, 1943 © The Al Hirschfeld Foundation. All rights reserved. www.AlHirschfeldFoundation.org. Press contact: Keith Sherman & Associates info@ksa-pr.com 212.764.7900

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