Installation Images

A LABOR OF LOVE: The Art Collection of Dr. Constance E. Clayton , curated by Tammi Lawson features artwork by celebrated African American artists from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Over a period of fifty years, Dr. Constance Elaine Clayton—a preeminent educator, philanthropist, and art advocate—amassed an art collection reflective of her love of art and Black creativity. Selections from Dr. Clayton's collection were gifted in 2015 to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art & Artifacts Division. On view included works by the nineteenth century impressionist, Edward Mitchell Bannister, alongside artwork by including Laura Wheeler Waring, Jacob Lawrence, Lois Mailou Jones, Charles Alston, John Wesley, Norman Lewis, Sam Gilliam, George Wilson, and Ellen Powell-Tiberino.