"AfricanMosaic: Celebrating aDecadeofCollecting," which opens at theNationalMuseumof African Art on November19, presents selected gifts and purchases madeover the pasttenyears.
Johnson bought most of his art in 1998, when he learned that a significant body of work, the Barnett-Aden collection, was for sale by the Florida Education Fund, along with the building where the art was housed, the NationalMuseumofAfrican American Art, in Tampa.