PORTLAND, Maine —* **David C. Driskell: Collector** *at the Portland Museum of Art is a compact tribute to an artist and scholar with deep ties to Maine, one who assembled one of the foremost collections of African-American art in the United States.

Driskell started collecting in 1955 after taking a position as an art professor at Talladega College. As he explained in a 2017 lecture at the Whitney Museum of American Art, he put aside a small budget for art each year from his beginning salary of $3,000.

Driskell began to focus on African-American artists in the 1960s, and in 1976, he curated the exhibition *Two Centuries of Black American Art*, establishing him as an authority on the subject.…