March 16, 2021

SFMOMA; photo: © Henrik Kam, courtesy SFMOMA 

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is having a very good week. Just a few days after re-opening, following more than three months of a second lockdown, SFMOMA announces a major gift of 31 paintings, sculptures and drawings by 20 American artists from the Pamela J. Joyner and Alfred J. Giuffrida Collection—celebrated for its intergenerational holdings of abstract art of the African diaspora. The couple's collection is known for its focus on abstract work by five generations of artists of the African diaspora, and the gift comprises paintings, sculptures, and drawings by twenty American artists including Elizabeth Catlett, Beauford Delaney, Norman Lewis, and Richard Mayhew. Featured works.

Elizabeth Catlett, Singing Head, (1968); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, gift of the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection; 

© Catlett Mora Family Trust / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS); photo: David Heald. 

“We are thrilled by this generous and transformative gift to SFMOMA and inspired by Pamela and Fred’s more than two decades of outstanding collecting and advocacy for Black artists,” said Neal Benezra, Helen and Charles Schwab Director of SFMOMA. “These important works strengthen the museum’s collection in critical ways and allow us to present a richer, more expansive picture of art history.”
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Loïs Mailou Jones, Peasants at Kenscoff, 1955; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, gift of the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection; © Estate of Loïs Mailou Jones; photo: Ian Reeves 

Joyner, a collector for many years and an SFMOMA trustee since January 2020, worked with former Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture Gary Garrels to carefully select pieces to fill in historical gaps. She said that the decision to donate the works came after she had “observed various museums increasing their commitments to a more inclusive art-historical narrative. It was easier to fill gaps in art being produced today but more challenging to go backwards in time.”

Hughie Lee-Smith, Two Boys, 1968; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, gift of the Joyner/Giuffrida Collection; 

© Estate of Hughie Lee-Smith/ARS (Artist Rights Society), New York; photo: Ian Reeves 

“This group of artists was written out of mid-century modernist history only because they were Black. What I want visitors to take away is that there were people of color not only working in the field, but defining the character of the movement at that time,” said Pamela J. Joyner. Joyner and her husband selected works created by the first of what is now five generations of artists in their collection. “The artists were also all “written out of mid-century modernist history only because they were Black,” Joyner said in a statement. “What I want visitors to take away is that there were people of color not only working in the field, but defining the character of the movement at that time.”

Visitors will be able to see the newly gifted works throughout the entire museum.