Honolulu Museum of Art
Jan. 19, 2024-Jan. 19, 2025
HoMA’s collection made a giant leap forward with the recent major gift of the Jean & Robert Steele Collection—54 works on paper and a painting by 26 influential African American artists. The exhibition of this notable collection of late 20th-century and early 21st-century artworks celebrates the enormous contributions three generations of these artists have made to American art, Black visual arts culture and the printmaking field at large. Forward Together highlights how the Steele gift vastly increases HoMA’s representation of art by women and artists of color, adding new perspectives to the Museum.The gift includes prints by iconic Americans Romare Bearden, Sam Gilliam, Jacob Lawrence and Faith Ringgold, who are all represented in HoMA’s collection. It also adds artists new to HoMA’s collection, such as Ron Adams, Emma Amos, Oletha DeVane, Annette Fortt, Barkley L. Hendricks, Robin Holder, Curlee Raven Holton, Varnette P. Honeywood, Margo Humphrey, Lois Mailou Jones and Valerie Maynard.
