Lowry Sims

I mean, I was a Black girl from Queens.

I had a career nobody would have expected at that time.

I was in places where nobody expected at the time.

I mean, I used to tell people,

One of the most amusing things for me was to go to a collector on Park Avenue in the 70s and get to the front door, and the doorman would try to sort of scoop me around to the service entrance because they assumed...

I was a housekeeper or something, you know, and, no, I'm, you know, a citizen from the Metropolitan Museum.

You sort of see the face change, you know.

They go, oh, get off.

It was a struggle to get past the ignorance about Black artists.

And when we got the exhibition up, I was approached by a journalist who said, I didn't even know there were Black artists.

Now, this is like 1979.

Come on.

Oh, geez.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I said, well, we've been around since the late 1800s.

You know, it's strong work.

I'm just hopeful that, you know, Frederick...

gets written into the art lexicon in the way that he needs to be.