ART DONATIONS
Amar Gallery & director Amar Singh are committed to diversifying museum collections to include more female, LGBT+ and minority artists in their collections. In 2021, Singh pledged to donate $5 million worth of art by female, LGBT+ and minority artists to museums worldwide by the end of 2025.
To date (Feb 2024) the artwork donated by Amar Gallery and Amar Singh is worth in excess of $3 million (23 artworks to 9 institutions). This is calculated using public auction data on Artnet's price database, Christie's, Sotheby's & Phillips to see the current public value of what similar works are being traded for.
A further $1 million + worth of art (3 artworks to 3 institutions) has been donated to museums as a courtesy of Amar Singh or in his honour bringing the total value of art placed in museums to date to over $4 million.
For full transparency, we have included proof of each donation made by Singh and the gallery. Personal data has been redacted where necessary.
1. Donated to LACMA, USA
María Berrío
Crowned Solitudes
2020
Paintings
Collage with Japanese paper and watercolor on canvas
84 × 105 in. (213.36 × 266.7 cm)
Gift of Amar Singh
Reference of donation
2. Donated to LACMA, USA
Sir Isaac Julien
Serenade (Lessons of the Hour)
Edition: 2/6
2019
Digital photograph on matt archival paper mounted on aluminium
Image: 39 3/8 × 44 1/2 in. (100.01 × 113.03 cm)
Gift of Amar Singh
Reference of donation
3. Donated to LACMA, USA
Renee Cox
The Signing
2017
Digital chromogenic print
36 1/2 × 99 1/4 × 3 in. (92.71 × 252.1 × 7.62 cm)
Gift of Amar Singh
Reference of donation
4. Donated to Harvard University, USA
Raphael Adjetey Adjei Mayne
Amanda Gorman
2021
Acrylic on canvas
175 x 146 CM
Gift of Amar Singh
Reference of donation
5. Donated to Harvard University, USA
Howard Tangye
Open Wide The Freedom Gates
2016
Mixed media, oil, pastel and graphite on paper
30 X 48” (76.5 X 122 CM)
Gift of Amar Gallery
Reference of donation
6. Donated to Harvard University, USA
Kenturah Davis
The Bodily Effect of a Color (Cheryl), 2021
Oil paint applied with rubber stamp letters, with color pencil ground and debossed grid on kozo paper in artist frame
40 x 60 in
101.6 x 152.4 cm
Gift of Amar Singh
Reference of donation: (Original gallery invoice, Matthew Brown Gallery)
7. Donated to National Portrait Gallery, London
Howard Tangye
Richard Nicoll
mixed media on 'Grey Board', 1999
33 1/8 in. x 23 1/4 in. (840 mm x 590 mm) overall
Gift of Amar Gallery, 2019
Reference of donation
8. Donated to National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Malone
by Howard Tangye
mixed media on paper, 2015
39 3/8 in. x 27 1/2 in. (1000 mm x 700 mm) overall
Gift of Amar Gallery, 2019
Reference of donation
9. Donated to National Portrait Gallery, London
Richard Nicoll
by Howard Tangye
mixed media on Bockingford paper, 2016
48 in. x 29 7/8 in. (1220 mm x 760 mm) overall
Gift of Amar Gallery, 2019
Reference of donation
10. Donated to National Gallery of South Africa
Please note: this was a partial donation by Renee Cox and Amar Gallery as the museum paid a heavily discounted rate which allowed the artist to receive funds and the gallery to recover some costs of production and exhibition.
For full transparency the museum paid $18,100.50 for two works worth $50,000. This was processed through Stevenson Gallery, South African who can confirm this. Renee Cox received $11,100.50 and Amar Gallery received $7,000 to cover costs of production and exhibition at he Cape Town Art Fair, 2018.
Renee Cox
Missy at Home
2008
Digital ink jet print on smooth water-colour paper 30” x 40”
Edition of 5
Partial gift of Renee Cox and Amar Gallery
Reference of Donation: Original invoice to Stevenson Gallery
Reference of Donation II: National Gallery's formal report, page 143
11. Donated to National Gallery of South Africa
Please note: this was a partial donation by Renee Cox and Amar Gallery as the museum paid a heavily discounted rate which allowed the artist to receive funds and the gallery to recover some costs of production and exhibition.
For full transparency the museum paid $18,100.50 for two works worth $50,000. This was processed through Stevenson Gallery, South African who can confirm this. Renee Cox received $11,100.50 and Amar Gallery received $7,000 to cover costs of production and exhibition at the Cape Town Art Fair, 2018.
Renee Cox (b. 1960), Jamaican.
Your Mamma’s Pieta (1996).
Colour digital inkjet print on watercolour paper.
20 x 20 cm.
Partial gift of Renee Cox and Amar Gallery
Reference of Donation: Original invoice to Stevenson Gallery
Reference of Donation II: National Gallery's formal report, page 143
12. Donation to the Smithsonian, USA
Please note: this was a co-donation with collector Donald Homsher a close friend of director Amar Singh
Lina Iris Viktor
Constellations II SE
Pure 24K gold, acrylic, resin on cotton rag paper
91.4 × 66.7 cm (36 × 26 1/4 in.)
Gift courtesy of Donald Homsher and Amar Gallery
Reference of donation
13. Donation to the Crocker Museum of Art, USA
Lina Iris Viktor
No. XIX / Came the devil so shrewd in all his ways,
2017.
Pure 24 karat gold, acrylic, and ink on cotton rag paper, 10 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches.
Gift of Amar Gallery
Reference of donation
14. Donation to the New Orleans Museum of Art, USA
Jenna Gribbon
Free Huey, 2021
oil on linen
23 × 30.5 cm (9 × 12 in)
Gift of Amar Singh
Reference of donation: (Letter of thanks from the museum to Amar Singh)
15. Donation to the New Orleans Museum of Art, USA
Rewind Collective
We Are One, 2021
Non Fungible Token
Edition of 10
Gift of Amar Singh
Reference of donation: (Letter of thanks from the museum to Amar Singh)
16. Donation to the New Orleans Museum of Art, USA
Gisela McDaniel
Transforming Pain/Learned Through It, 2020
Oil on panel, found object, flower, resin, sound
91.4 x 55.9 x 14.6 cm
36 x 22 x 5 3/4 in
Gift of Amar Singh
Reference of donation: (Original gallery invoice highlighting donation)
17. Donation to the New Orleans Museum of Art, USA
Angela Heisch
Single Flare
2021
Oil on Linen over panel
54 in x 36 in (137.16 cm x 91.44 cm)
Gift of Amar Singh
Reference of donation: (Letter of thanks from the museum to Amar Singh)
18. Donation to the New Orleans Museum of Art, USA
Antonia Showering
Sacrifice, 2021
Oil on linen
51 1/8 x 51 1/8 in. / 130 x 130 cm
Gift of Amar Singh
Reference of donation: (Letter of thanks from the museum to Amar Singh)
19. Donation to the Studio Museum, Harlem, USA
Spirit
Oil on canvas, paper, found folk art, and spray paint on canvas
71 1/2 x 36 in. (181.6 x 91.4 cm)
Gift of Amar Singh
Reference of donation
20. Donation to the Stedelijk museum, Amsterdam
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami
Innnspirit-ed
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2021
Gift of Amar Singh
Reference of donation: (Letter of thanks from the museum to Amar Singh)
21. Donation to the Stedelijk museum, Amsterdam
Loie Hollowell
Split Orbs in Mauve, Red and Teal
Oil paint, acrylic medium, high density foam and epoxy resin on linen over panel
2021
Gift of Amar Singh
Reference of donation: (Letter of thanks from the museum to Amar Singh)
22. Donation to the Stedelijk museum, Amsterdam
Angela Heisch
"Green Lace”
2022.
Oil on linen
153 x 244 cm | 60 1/4 x 96 in
Gift of Amar Singh
Reference of donation: (Letter of thanks from the museum to Amar Singh)
23. Donation to the Stedelijk museum, Amsterdam
Danielle McKinney
Utrecht
2022
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 24 inches 76.2 x 61 cm.
Gift of Amar Singh
Reference of donation: (Letter of thanks from the museum to Amar Singh)
ADDITIONAL WORKS DONATED TO MUSEUMS COURTESY/IN HONOUR OF AMAR SINGH/AMAR GALLERY
24. Donation in honour of Amar Singh to ICA, Miami, USA
Kenturah Davis
Contending with Contingency IX
2021
Carbon pencil rubbing on debossed cotton paper,
mounted each: 43 x 26 in., overall: 130.5 x 79.5 in.
Museum purchase with funds provided by Mr. Jeff Jaeger and Mrs. Kristen Boggs Jaeger and anonymous in honour of Amar Singh
25. Donation in honour of Amar Singh to Whitney Museum, NYC, USA
Rick Lowe
Project Row Houses: If Artists Are Creative Why Can’t They Create Solutions
2021
Acrylic and paper collage on canvas, sixteen parts
Overall: 144 × 192in. (365.8 × 487.7 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Neil Bluhm, an anonymous donor in honour the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation and Amar Singh
26. Donation courtesy of Amar Singh to the New Orleans Museum of Art, USA
Loie Hollowell
Split orbs in flesh and blue, 2021
Oil paint, acrylic medium, and high-density foam on linen mounted on panel
48 x 36 x 3 3/4 in (121.92 x 91.44 x 9.525 cm)
Gift of Arif Suherman, courtesy Amar Singh, 2021
Reference of donation: (Letter of thanks from the museum to Amar Singh)
