Fired Up! Ready to Go!: The Collections of Peggy Cooper Cafritz

Author: Peggy Cooper Cafritz Publisher: Rizolli Electra
Year: 2018
Pages: 288
ISBN: 978-0847860586

A richly illustrated book documents the important African-American art collection of philanthropist and civil rights activist Peggy Cooper Cafritz.

During her decades of collecting, the prominent Washington, DC-based arts patron, civil rights activist and philanthropist Peggy Cooper Cafritz (1947-2018) amassed one of the largest and most important collections of African-American art in the US. 

As a collector, Cooper Cafritz liked to represent the diversity of the African-American experience, and her eclectic holdings encompass painting, photography and sculpture by major 20th-century figures as well as the young, emerging artists she championed, many of whom are now leaders in contemporary art. The richly illustrated book features works by Alma Thomas, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas, Yinka Shonibare, Kehinde Wiley, Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson and LaToya Ruby Frazier, among many others.