Citations:saloniste

"What was also wiped out was one of this city’s more lively social hubs, the nexus of activists, politicians and young artists who swirled around Ms. Cooper Cafritz, now 67, the gruffly charming saloniste, arts patron and former president of the Board of Education. Gone, too, was her prodigious and enticing collection of contemporary African and African-American art, the work tracing a not-always-straight line from Jacob Lawrence, the late narrative painter, to the provocations of Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley and Hank Willis Thomas, among other works."

Peggy Cooper Cafritz: Everything in a Big Way By PENELOPE GREEN JAN. 14, 2015 "A version of this article appears in print on January 15, 2015, on page D1 of the New York edition [New York Times] with the headline: Everything in a Big Way."