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Black artists get their day at the MFA
Purchase of six works increases diversity
Anger is not an emotion that leaps out of "Girl in Mirror," which depicts the artist's sister gazing at herself in a mirror. But John Wilson was very angry when he painted it in 1945, a time when he saw no works by black artists at the Museum of Fine Arts. (Full article: 757 words)
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