BOSTON, MA.-Boston University Art Gallery presents Syncopated Rhythms: 20th Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection. curated by Patricia Hills and Melissa Renn, and on view through January 22, 2006. Jazz impresario George Wein and his wife Joyce have been collecting African American art for many years. The exhibition Syncopated Rhythms: 20 th -Century African American Art from the Collection of George and Joyce Wein, curated by Boston University Art History Professor Patricia Hills and Warren Adelson Curatorial Fellow in American Art Melissa Renn, will showcase their outstanding collection of sixty-five works including paintings, sculpture, drawings and a contemporary quilt. This is the first time the collection will be shown publicly. The artists include: Benny Andrews, Charles Alston, Ernie Barnes, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Bruce Brice, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Allan Rohan Crite, Miles Davis, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Aaron Douglas, Minnie Evans, Palmer Hayden, Oliver Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Wifredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Augusta Savage, Bob Thompson, Charles White, Michael Kelly Williams, William T. Williams, Ellis Wilson, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff and Richard Yarde.