Conversation, Projects and Collaborations over the Years

Richard Powell’s To Conserve a Legacy

Book cover of Richard Powell’s To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Courtesy of the MIT Press.

Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director, and Richard J. Powell, the John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, discuss their careers and their shared projects and collaborations. Generously sponsored by the Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Fund.



Established to honor the memory of Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, director of the Yale University Art Gallery from 1957 to 1971, the annual Ritchie Lectures, which are jointly sponsored by the Yale Center for British Art and the Gallery, bring distinguished members of the international visual arts community to Yale University. These lectures are free and open to the public, honoring Ritchie’s belief that the art museum serves as a gathering place for all members of the community.