IN MEMORIAM

In Memoriam DAVID C. DRISKELL 1931-2020

Distinguished University Professor David C. Driskell, recognized worldwide as an artist, scholar and historian of African American art, passed away at the age of 88 in late March from complications of COVID-19. In partnership with the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora, incoming University President Darryll J. Pines will display a number of Driskell’s works in University House during the 2020–21 academic year.

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This fall, the Driskell Center will host the virtual exhibition “The David C. Driskell Papers,” made up of 110 items from Driskell’s extensive archive, assembled over more than six decades. Highlights of the exhibition include correspondences with Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Georgia O’Keeffe; photographs from Driskell’s earliest solo exhibitions; and Driskell’s notes on “Two Centuries of Black American Art,” his signature accomplishment as a curator.