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Smithsonian and the Speed Art Museum to Jointly Acquire Amy Sherald s Painting of Breonna Taylor - Artwire Press Release from ArtfixDaily com

Smithsonian and the Speed Art Museum to Jointly Acquire Amy Sherald’s Painting of Breonna Taylor WASHINGTON, D.C. AND LOUISVILLE, Kentucky / Subject Line Please provide verification code Email is invalid Cover of Vanity Fair‘s September 2020 issue, featuring a portrait of Breonna Taylor by Amy Sherald. Vanity Fair Facilitated by the artist, the museums acquistion follows a $1 million joint donation from the Ford Foundation and the Hearthland Foundation, a nonprofit tied to actress Kate Capshaw and her husband, the director Steven Spielberg. Proceeds will benefit social justice reform initiatives. (NYT) The Smithsonian s National Museum of African American History and Culture is in talks with the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, to jointly acquire a painting of Breonna Taylor by Amy Sherald that first appeared on the cover of the September 2020 issue of 

Amy Sherald s Portrait of Breonna Taylor Has Been Jointly Acquired by the Smithsonian and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw helped fund the painting s acquisition. March 8, 2021 Amy Sherald in her studio with her portrait of Breonna Taylor (2020). Photo by Joseph Hyde courtesy of Hauser & Wirth. Vanity Fair. Taylor was asleep in bed on March 13, 2020, when police officers forced their way into her apartment and fatally shot the 26-year-old emergency medical technician. Her death became a rallying cry in the Black Lives Matter protests that swept the nation last year. Ta-Nehisi Coates,  Vanity Fair’s guest editor for a special edition on activism in September 2020, had tapped Sherald to paint Taylor for the issue’s cover. It was the artist’s second commission, after painting the official portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama.

Amy Sherald Directs Her Breonna Taylor Painting Toward Justice

  Typically, Amy Sherald’s gallery would handle the sale of her artwork to a collector or an institution. But when it came to  her portrait of Breonna Taylor  the 26-year-old medical worker who was shot and killed  by police officers in Louisville, Ky.  Sherald herself wanted to see that particular painting all the way home. “I felt like it should live out in the world,” Sherald said. “I started to think about her hometown and how maybe this painting could be a Balm in Gilead for Louisville.” Sherald believed  the painting should be seen by people where Taylor died as well as by a broader audience. And she intended the proceeds from her sale of the painting to advance the cause of social justice.

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