David Drake
In museum first, MFA Boston pairs prized vessels by Paul Revere and enslaved artist David Drake
As part of a revamp of its galleries devoted to early American art, the museum is installing a clay jar by an enslaved artist alongside a bowl made by a hero of the US Revolutionary War
Theaster Gates gifts David Drake pot from his collection to enslaved ceramicist’s descendants
The ceramic vessel is on view in a new exhibition at Gagosian in New York, alongside another returned to Drake’s descendants last year by the MFA Boston
Comment | Dave the Potter finally becomes a complete artist
Spending most of his life in slavery, David Drake was denied the right to benefit from his own creativity and so to be an artist in every sense—until now
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In historic move, MFA Boston returns works by 19th-century enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs
The terms of the restitution of the two ceramic pots have been cast in the mould of Nazi war-loot agreements
Subversive ceramics by enslaved Black potters go on show at New York's Met Museum
The exhibition stages works ranging from Dave the Potter in 1834 to contemporary responses by the likes of Theaster Gates and Simone Leigh