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Image: Thornton Dial Stars of Everything (2004) mixed media , Souls Grown Deep Foundation; ARS; DACS. Image courtesy of Stephen Pitkin
Review: Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South, Royal Academy 17 March – 18 June 2023
Guest edited by Deborah Nash
Image: Ronald Lockett Sarah Lockett’s Roses (1997), Souls Grown Deep Foundation; ARS; DACS. Image courtesy of Stephen Pitkin
The Royal Academy’s latest show Souls Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Artists from the American South is rooted in the precise geography of Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi in the Deep South of the United States, where most of the 34 exhibited African-American artists were born and raised, from the end of the 19th century to the present day..................................................................................
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