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historical notes
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Alfred J. Giuffrida studied at Notre Dame and received a law degree from Harvard. Giuffrida worked in private equity and currently serves as Managing Director for Horsley Bridge Partners in San Francisco. Along with his wife, Pamela J. Joyner, he has amassed a collection of works by artists of the African diaspora. The couple's collection of over 400 works, mainly abstract paintings, is intended to rewrite the role that artists of color have played in art history. The collection includes Jack Whitten, Sam Gilliam, and Mark Bradford and has also expanded to include artists from Africa and the global African diaspora, such as El Anatsui, William Kentridge, and Wangechi Mutu. In recent years, the couple has also begun to focus on Afro-Brazilian artists such as Rubem Valentim and Emanoel Araujo. Joyner and Giuffrida have donated 31 works by 20 American artists, such as Elizabeth Catlett, Beauford Delaney, Norman Lewis, and Richard Mayhew, to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. |
