Souls Grown Deep

An exhibition running until September 2 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art celebrates the recent acquisition of 24 works from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation. Titled Souls Grown Deep:artists of the

African American South, the exhibition includes paintings, sculptures and quilts—some of which include large-scale sculptures and reliefs by Thornton Dial, assemblages by Lonnie Holley, Ronald Lockett, Hawkins Bolden and Bessie Harvey, and a selection of multi-colored quilts made by several generations of women from Gee’s Bend, Alabama, and the nearby towns of Rehoboth and Alberta.

Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), Homage to Juan Gris, 1953-54. Box construction: wood, cut paper and found objects, 18½ x 12½ x 45/8 in. © Visual Artists and Galleries Assoc., Inc. (VAGA), New York. Purchased with the John D. Mcilhenny Fund, 1976. Courtesy Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2019.