Soul of a Nation at Tate Modern

Show curator Mark Godfrey on the gallery’s new exhibition exploring African-American artists from 1963-1983

As we have been developing the collection of post-war American art at Tate, we were thinking about the really important artists of the 1970s, 80s and 90s who had not yet been brought into the collection. It was Tate's major acquisitions of work by African-American artists such as Barkley Hendricks, Romare Bearden and Lorraine O'Grady that got us thinking about a show looking at different artists' groups throughout America.

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