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Claire Gilman, our Acquavella Curator and Department Head, Modern and Contemporary Drawings, introduces a new acquisition by Jay DeFeo, who is known for her unconventional use of materials and intense physical method of artmaking.

In 2018 the Morgan acquired eleven drawings from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation, an organization dedicated to supporting Black Southern artists and their communities. The artists represented in the acquisition are Thornton Dial, Nellie Mae Rowe, Henry Speller, Luster Willis, and Purvis Young.

The author of more than three thousand folk songs, Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) is one of the most influential songwriters and recording artists in American history.