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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
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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  ....

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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. ....

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