"A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth." -- John Singer Sargent

Saturday, September 21, 2019

Warren M. Robbins


This 1993 relief portrait of Warren Robbins by Leonard Baskin is on Robbins' grave stone in Congressional Cemetery in Washington,  DC.
Warren Murray Robbins (September 4, 1923 – December 4, 2008) was an American art collector, whose collection of African art led to the formation of the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution. -- Wikipedia
Robbins
Warren M. Robbins
Sept. 4th 1923 ~ Dec. 4th 2008
Founder
National Museum of
African Art
Smithsonian Institution
“Our hope is to provide a
foundation for interracial
Understanding.”
                 ~W.M.R [1977]

1993                                Baskin
Warren Robbins
At S 70
Fovnder
National Mvsevm of African Art 1964

 L. Baskin

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