A private collection assembled by Bruce Campbell Smith, exhibited at the South African National Gallery in Cape Town in 2004. The collection is unique and perhaps the most impressive of its kind outside of any public institution. It constitutes a rich, albeit selective, chronicle of this particular collector's personal collation of objects representing South African endeavour in the visual arts over a period of some eighty-odd years. The book is being launched in early 2007 and was published by SAHO and Unisa Press. The books principal focus is on "work by black South African artists" active between the 1920s and 2004. The collection presents a range of images - including some of undoubted, if not iconic, importance - ranging from the colonial and apartheid eras to embrace the first ten years of the new democratic order.
A private collection assembled by Bruce Campbell Smith, exhibited at the South African National Gallery in Cape Town in 2004. The collection is unique and perhaps the most impressive of its kind outside of any public institution. It constitutes a rich, albeit selective, chronicle of this particular collector''s personal collation of objects representing South African endeavour in the visual arts over a period of some eighty-odd years. The book is being launched in early 2007 and was published by SAHO and Unisa Press.