![]() ![]() He studied art at Cooper Union which, unlike other institutions that rejected applicants on the basis of race, made admissions decisions based solely on applicants’ portfolios. Donated by the Ashley Bryan Center, which is dedicated to preserving and promoting the 97-year-old artist’s oeuvre, this is the Morgan’s first major acquisition of work by a Black children’s author and illustrator.īryan, who works with painting, printmaking, puppetry, stained glass, and collage, was born in Harlem in 1923 and grew up in the Bronx during the Great Depression. The colorful collages and preliminary drawings that Ashley Bryan made for Sail Away, an illustrated children’s book of Langston Hughes poems about water, were acquired by the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. ![]()
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