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Celebration and Vision: The Hewitt Collection of African-American Art, one of the most important and comprehensive collections of 20th-century African-American art, will open at PSU's Littman Gallery on February 2. Bank of America is bringing the exhibit to PSU as a part of its national tour to museums and cultural centers across the United States. The exhibition will be on display, free of charge, Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursdays until 7 p.m., through March 27.

"Woman Washing Clothes," by Charles Alston (1907-1977) is one of the 55 pieces in the Hewitt Collection of African-American Art coming to PSU in February.

The Hewitt Collection consists of 55 two-dimensional works of art by 20 artists such as Hale Woodruff, Romare Bearden, Ernest Crichlow, Henry O. Tanner, Jonathan Green, and Elizabeth Catlett. Bank of America purchased the collection in 1998 from John and Vivian Hewitt of New York, who collected the works over a 50-year period. Art & Antiques magazine ranked the collection among the Top 100 Treasures in its March 2000 issue. This will be the collection's only Oregon stop.