A Famed L.A. Bookseller Is Donating His Encyclopedic Archive of Black Artists to Getty

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A Famed L.A. Bookseller Is Donating His Encyclopedic Archive of Black Artists to Getty

… visual culture of African American and Black Diaspora artists … images documenting 20th-century African American culture, was donated … s National Museum of African American History and Culture … Whitney and Lee Kaplan African American Visual Culture Collection …

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