The Mother-Daughter Duo Who Amassed an Incredible Trove of African American Art

The two Clayton women shared a home and an appetite for collecting, spending nearly 50 years buying works by Black artists from auctions, galleries, and thrift shops.

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The collection includes work by Charles White, Augusta Savage, the DMV's own Sam Gilliam, Laura Wheeler Waring, my former UW professor Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, and Barbara Chase-Riboud.