Claude Clark Sr African American Artist Painting 1915-2001 Framed Oil On Board
Claude Clark (November 11, 1915 - April 21, 2001) was an African American painter, printmaker and art educator. Clark’s subject matter was the diaspora of African American culture, including dance scenes, street urchins, marine life, landscapes, and religious and political satire images executed primarily with a palette knife. ARTIST'S STATEMENT "As a child in the churches, the schools and the community, I dreamed of a destiny. My search became a single purpose for the dignity of Black Americans instead of attempting to solve the concerns of all humanity. Early on, I was convinced a creative spirit must soar beyond compartments of religion and politics. It was through the roots of African Art that I learned of the creative source of most Western art. As I stood near the Nile at Cairo and looked toward the Mediterranean in awe, I envisioned how the Greeks, Persians, Romans, etc., had sailed up the Nile, taking away the fine arts, sciences, history and other disciplines. There were records on paper, on stone, on walls in the temples that rivaled anything produced later in the Renaissance. PRESS THIS BUTTON TO RETURN TO THE PREVIOUS PAGE Over the years, I have painted representative and figurative subjects. About thirty years ago, I was introduced to Non-Objective Expressionism. I didn't attempt abstract art in the 1930s, nor did I try during my years at the Barnes Foundation. Dr. Barnes not only has the world's finest collection of Modern Art, but presents the theory in his book, "The Art of Painting," that the format of the Modern Masters was the same as that of old Western Masters. For instance, the contemporary artist presents a simple design, while the old Master presented the same format, but built in the detailed subject matter. I believe that the African creative artists gave the format to the Western world and they are masters of design (especially Egyptians). I feel that I understand contemporary directions; and I relax for a while, to have fun such as with inventive avant-garde. I have learned much that I have applied to my craft, and I feel that I have become a more flexible creative spirit."
| Clark, Claude, Sr. (Rickingham, GA, 1915-Oakland, CA, 2001) |
Bibliography and Exhibitions
MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Atlanta (GA). Hammonds House Museum. Fifty Years of Paintings by Georgia Artist CLAUDE CLARK. 1990. Exhibition brochure.
Atlanta (GA): APEX Museum. CLAUDE CLARK: On My Journey Now: A Selection of Paintings from 1940-1986. 1996. Exhib. catalogue, illus. Text by David C. Driskell and Gladys E. Rodgers.
CLARK, CLAUDE, SR. and CLAUDE LOCKHART CLARK. A Black Art Perspective: A Black Teacher's Guide to a Black Visual Art Curriculum. 1969. Authored by Clark and illustrated by his son Claude Lockhart Clark. The text presents a 136 pp. annotated outline for preparing and presenting courses in African and African American visual culture from a Black point of view, the result of Clark's involvement with the Black Panther Party's initiatives in curriculum reform in California.
Jones, Steven L. First Think, Then Act: Aspect of the Life of CLAUDE CLARK. www.africanmetropolis.com/Claude_Clark/. Based on a 1996 interview by the author with Claude Clark, Sr. but written up in the third person. Contains much important information on Clark's family, art school friends and years in Philadelphia during the 1940s, at Talladega, and in California during the sixties. Electronic text.
Memphis (TN). Joysmith Gallery. CLAUDE CLARK, SR. 2001. Solo exhibition.
Nashville (TN). Carl Van Vechten Gallery, Fisk University. A Retrospective Exhibition, 1937-1971: Paintings by CLAUDE CLARK. 1972. 16 pp., 6 b&w illus. Text by David Driskell. Mid-career retrospective for noted painter Claude Clark, Sr. (1915-2001). 8vo, pictorial stapled wraps. Ed. of 1000.
New York (NY). Artist's Gallery of Philip Ragan Associates. CLAUDE CLARK. 1944. Solo exhibition.
New York (NY). Bonstell Gallery. CLAUDE CLARK. 1945. Solo exhibition.
New York (NY). Roko Gallery. CLAUDE CLARK. 1947. Solo exhibition.
New York (NY). Roko Gallery. CLAUDE CLARK. 1946. Solo exhibition.
Oakland (CA). Grand Oaks Gallery. CLAUDE CLARK. 1981. Exhib. cat., illus. Text by David Driskell.
Oakland (CA). Samuels Gallery. CLAUDE CLARK, SR. 1994. Solo exhibition.
Oakland (CA). Thelma Harris Gallery. CLAUDE CLARK, SR. 1999. Solo exhibition.
Oakland (CA). Thelma Harris Gallery. CLAUDE CLARK, SR. 1997. Solo exhibition.
Oakland (CA). Thelma Harris Gallery. CLAUDE CLARK: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1940-1987. February 18-April 15, 2003. Solo exhibition of paintings.
Philadelphia (PA). Wharton Settlement. CLAUDE CLARK. 1951. Solo exhibition.
Sacramento (CA). E.B. Crocker Art Museum. CLAUDE CLARK. 1956. Solo exhibition.
San Francisco (CA). Bomani Gallery. CLAUDE CLARK, SR. 1995. Solo exhibition.
GENERAL BOOKS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
ALBANY (NY). Albany Institute of History and Art. The Negro Artist Comes of Age: A National Survey of Contemporary American Artists. January 3-February 11, 1945. vii, 77 pp., 63 b&w illus., checklist of 76 works by 38 artists, with 14 others mentioned as well. A major early survey. Foreword by John Davis Hatch, Jr.; essay "Up Till Now" by Alain Locke who states that the show is both "a representative and challenging cross-section of contemporary American art and, additionally, convincing evidence of the Negro’s maturing racial and cultural self-expression in painting and sculpture." The exhibition coincided with the last months of WWII and the return of the troops. Artists mentioned or included: Charles Alston, William Artis, Henry (Mike) Bannarn, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Eloise Bishop, Selma Burke, William S. Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Sr., Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Rohan Crite, Joseph Delaney, Aaron Douglas, Robert S. Duncanson, Frederick Flemister, Meta Warrick Fuller, Rex Goreleigh, William A. Harper, Palmer Hayden, James Herring, May Howard Jackson, Joshua Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Ronald Joseph, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Edward L. Loper, Archibald J. Motley, Frank Neal, Marion Perkins, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Thelma Streat, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Dox Thrash, Laura Wheeler Waring, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Ellis Wilson, John Wilson, Vernon Winslow, Hale Woodruff. [Traveled to: Brooklyn Museum of Art.] [Locke's essay is reprinted in: The Critical Temper of Alain Locke. A Selection of His Essays on Art and Culture. New York: Garland, 191-94.] [Reviews: Carter G. Woodson, The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 30, No. 2 (April 1945):227-228; "The Negro Artist Comes of Age," ARTnews (February 1-14, 1945) reprinted in ARTnews 91 (November 1992):109-10.] 8vo (9 x 6 in.; 23 cm.), wraps. First ed.
ANDOVER (MA). Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Exeter Academy. To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999. 240 pp., 138 color illus., 137 b&w illus. Text by Richard J. Powell, Jock Reynolds; intro by Kinshasha Holman. Includes painting, sculpture, and photographs by over 90 artists and historic photographs, gathered from the collection of 6 important university collections: Clark, Fisk, Hampton, Howard, N.C. Central, and Tuskegee. A major publication on African American Art. Includes among others: William E. Artis, Henry W. Bannarn, Arthur P. Bedou, John Biggers, Edmund Bruce, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Sr., Allan Rohan Crite, Frederick C. Flemister, Allan R. Freelon, Otis Galbreath, Sam Gilliam, Humbert Howard, Clementine Hunter, Wilmer A. Jennings, Malvin Gray Johnson, William H. Johnson, Edmonia Lewis, Rose Piper, Horace Pippin, Prentiss H. Polk, James A. Porter, John N. Robinson, Charles Sallee, Augusta Savage, William Edouard Scott, Charles Sebree, Alvin Smith, white artist Prentiss Taylor, James Lesesne Wells, Hale Woodruff. Large 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed.
ATLANTA (GA). Atlanta University. Third Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures and Prints by Negro Artists: The Two Generations. April 2-30, 1944. Juried group exhibition. Artists included: Charles Alston, William E. Artis, Annabelle Baker, Mike Bannarn, Romare Bearden (Honorable Mention), John T. Biggers, Selma Burke, Calvin Burnett, William S. Carter, Claude Clark, Francis P. Conch, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Rohan Crite, Mary Tobias Daniel, Roy DeCarava, Arthur Diggs, Lillian Dorsey, John Farrar (top prize - Ferrar was 16 yrs. old), Frederick C. Flemister, Charlotte Franklin, Charles Haig, Vertis C. Hayes, Mark Hewitt, Jenelsie Holloway, John Miller Howard, Sargent Johnson, Henry Bozeman Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Clarence Lawson, Hughie Lee-Smith, Samella Lewis, Frank Neal, Cecil D. Nelson, Jr. (winner, John Hope Purchase award, landscape painting), Allison Oglesby, James Dallas Parks, Horace Pippin, James Porter, Walter W. Smith, Clyde Turner, John E. Washington, Ora Washington, Albert Wells, James Lesesne Wells, Ellis Wilson, John Wilson (Atlanta University award), Vernon Winslow, Hale Woodruff, Frank Wyley, et al. [Review: Art News, May 1, 1944:7.]
ATLANTA (GA). Hammonds House Museum. The Rupture Between: The Complexity of Black Manhood: Identity and Spirituality Featuring the Works of Claude Clark, Steve Prince, and Najee Dorsey. July 13-September 28, 2014. Group exhibition.
BELLEVUE (WA). Bellevue Art Museum. Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art, 1800-1950. 1985. 104 pp., 59 illus. (18 color plates including cover plates), checklist of 84 works by 42 artists, notes, bibliography. Driskell's essay is an excellent general survey including numerous artists not in the exhibition. Artists in exhibition in chronological order include: Joshua Johnson, William Simpson, David Bowser, Robert Duncanson, Edward Bannister, Grafton T. Brown, Edmonia Lewis, Henry Ossawa Tanner, William A. Harper, William E. Scott. Sargent Johnson, Horace Pippin, Elizabeth Prophet, Archibald Motley, Augusta Savage, Palmer Hayden, Malvin G. Johnson, Aaron Douglas, Meta Warrick Fuller, Ellis Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Richmond Barthé, Selma Burke, Beauford Delaney, William H. Johnson, James L. Wells, Joseph Delaney, Lois Mailou Jones, James Porter, Charles Alston, Marion Perkins, Norman Lewis, Romare Bearden, Ernest Crichlow, Charles Sebree, Hughie-Lee Smith, Claude Clark, Eldzier Cortor, Jacob Lawrence, Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, James Lewis. [Traveling exhibition.] 4to, wraps. First ed.
BONTEMPS, ARNA ALEXANDER, ed. Choosing: An Exhibit of Changing Perspectives in Modern Art and Art Criticism by Black Americans, 1925-1985. Hampton (VA): Hampton University, 1985. 142 pp. exhib. cat., color and b&w illus., biogs., photo and illus. for each artist. Curated by Leslee Stradford. Essays by David Driskell, Keith Morrison (on printmaking), Allan Gordon, and Arna Bontemps include many artists not in the show. Artists exhibited include: Benny Andrews, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Robert Blackburn, Moe Brooker, Vivian E. Browne, Elizabeth Catlett, Catti, Claude Clark, Houston Conwill, Emilio Cruz, Mary Reed Daniel, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, John Dowell, David Driskell, Ed Dwight, Allan Edmunds, Sam Gilliam, Ed Hamilton, Michael Harris, Maren Hassinger, Barkley Hendricks, Robin Holder, Margo Humphrey, Richard Hunt, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Persis Jennings, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Juan Logan, Ed Love, Geraldine McCullough, Lloyd McNeill, Percy Martin, Keith Morrison, Nefertiti, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Joe Overstreet, Gregory Page, Howardena Pindell, Martin Puryear, John Rhoden, Raymond Saunders, Joyce Scott, Clemon Smith, Frank Smith, Vincent Smith, Sylvia Snowden, Nelson Stevens, Lou Stovall, Lloyd McNeill, Robert Stull, Alma Thomas, Eugene Roy Vango, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams, Hale Woodruff, Richard Yarde, James L. Wells, Charles White. [Traveled to Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, VA; Chicago State University, Chicago, IL; Howard University, Washington, DC.] 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed.
BRONX (NY). Lehman College Art Gallery, CUNY. Black Printmakers and the WPA. February 23-June 6, 1989. 35 pp. exhib. cat., 19 illus., biogs. of 19 artists, checklist of 52 works, bibliog. Text by Leslie King-Hammond. Small but useful reference work. Includes: Charles Alston, Robert Blackburn, Elmer Brown, Samuel Brown, Fred Carlo, Claude Clark, Ernest Crichlow, Wilmer Jennings, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Ronald Joseph, Norman Lewis, Richard Lindsey, Charles Sallee, Hughie Lee-Smith, Raymond Steth, Dox Thrash, Hale Woodruff (and white artist Riva Helfond.) 8vo (7 x 10 in.), oblong stapled wraps. First ed.
CATTELL, JACQUES, ed. Who's Who in American Art 16. New York: Bowker, 1984. Curators who are not also artists are included in this bibliographic entry but are not otherwise listed in the database: We are NOT going to go through all of these volumes over the decades; this one is catalogued simply to record the degree to which living African American artists had entered the conciousness of the mainstream American art world as of 1984. [Should be consulted along with Falk's Who Was Who in American Art (1985) to complete the "awareness list" as of the mid-1980s.] 160 artists are included here along with 1000 pages of far more obscure white artists: p. 21, Benny Andrews, 33, Ellsworth Ausby, 50, Richmond Barthé; 57, Romare Bearden, 76, John Biggers, 83, Betty Blayton, 98, Frank Bowling, 108, Arthur Britt, 112, Wendell Brooks, 116, Marvin Brown, 117-18, Vivian Browne, 121, Linda Goode Bryant, 128, Calvin Burnett, 129, Margaret Burroughs, 132, Carole Byard, 133, Walter Cade, 148, Yvonne Pickering Carter, 168, Claude Clark, 178-79, Floyd Coleman, 179, Robert Colescott, 181, Paul Collins, 184, James Conlon, 188-89, Arthur Coppedge; 191, Eldzier Cortor, Averille Costley-Jacobs, 198, Allan Crite; 210, D'Ashnash-Tosi [Barbara Chase-Riboud], 213-14, Alonzo Davis, 219-20, Roy DeCarava, 222, Avel DeKnight, 226, Richard Dempsey, 228, Murry DePillars, 237, Raymond Dobard, 239, Jeff Donaldson, 243, John Dowell, 246, David Driskell, 256, Allan Edmunds, 256-57, James Edwards, 260, David Elder, 265, Whitney John Engeran, 267, Marion Epting, 270, Burford Evans, 271, Minnie Evans, 271-72, Frederick Eversley, 277, Elton Fax, 304, Charlotte Franklin, 315, Edmund Barry Gaither (curator), 317, Reginald Gammon, 325, Herbert Gentry, 326, Joseph Geran, 328, Henri Ghent (curator), 332, Sam Gilliam, 346, Russell Gordon, 354, Rex Goreleigh, 361, Eugene Grigsby, 375, Robert Hall, 380, Leslie King-Hammond (curator), 381, Grace Hampton, 385, Marvin Harden, 406, Barkley Hendricks, 418, Leon Hicks, 414, Freida High-Wasikhongo, 424-25, Al Hollingsworth, 428, Earl Hooks, 433, Humbert Howard, 439, Richard Hunt, 450, A. B. Jackson, Oliver Jackson; 451, Suzanne Jackson, 454, Catti James, Frederick James, 464, Lester L. Johnson; 467, Ben Jones, 467-68, Calvin Jones, 469, James Edward Jones, Lois Jones, 471, Theodore Jones, 489, Paul Keene; 492, James Kennedy, 495-96, Virginia Kiah, 535, Raymond Lark, 540-41, Jacob Lawrence, 546, Hughie Lee-Smith, 557, Samella Lewis, 586, Cheryl Ilene McClenney (arts admin.), 595, Anderson Macklin, 620, Philip Lindsay Mason, 625, Richard Mayhew, 597, Oscar McNary, 598, Kynaston McShine (curator), 610, 637, Marianne Miles a.k.a. Marianne; 638, Earl Miller, 640-41, Lev Mills, 649, Evangeline Montgomery; 653, Norma Morgan, 655, Keith Morrison, 657, Dewey Mosby (curator), 671, Otto Neals, 693, Ademola Olugebefola, 700, Hayward Oubré, John Outterbridge, Wallace Owens, 702, William Pajaud, 706, James Parks, 710, Curtis Patterson, 711, Sharon Patton (curator), 711-12, John Payne, 720, Regenia Perry (curator), 724, Bertrand Phillips; 727, Delilah Pierce, 728, Vergniaud Pierre-Noël, 729, Stanley Pinckney, Howardena Pindell, 744, Leslie Price, Arnold Prince, 747, Mavis Pusey, 752, Bob Ragland, 759, Roscoe Reddix, 763, Robert Reid, 768, John Rhoden, 772, John Riddle, Gregory Ridley, 774, Faith Ringgold, 778, Lucille Roberts, 803, Mahler Ryder, 804, Betye Saar, 815, Raymond Saunders, 834, John Scott, 841, James Sepyo, 857, Thomas Sills, 859, Jewel Simon, 861, Merton Simpson, Lowery Sims (curator); 865, Van Slater, 869, Dolph Smith, 873, Vincent Smith, 886, Francis Sprout, 890-91, Shirley Stark, 898, Nelson Stevens, 920, Luther Stovall, 909, Robert Stull, 920, Ann Tanksley, James Tanner, 924, Rod Taylor, 922, William Bradley Taylor [Bill Taylor], 929, Elaine Thomas, 946, Curtis Tucker, 949, Leo Twiggs, 970, Larry Walker, 977, James Washington, 979, Howard Watson, 994, Amos White, 995, Franklin White, 996 Tim Whiten, 1001-2, Chester Williams, 1003, Randolph Williams, Todd Williams, Walter Williams, William T. Williams, 1005, Edward Wilson, George Wilson, 1005-6, John Wilson, 1007, Frank Wimberley, 1016, Rip Woods, 1017, Shirley Woodson, 1019, Bernard Wright, 1025, Charles Young, 1026, Kenneth Young, Milton Young.
CHARLESTON (SC). Gibbes Art Gallery. Reflections of a Southern Heritage: 20th Century Black Artists of the Southeast. September 6-October 28, 1979. Unpag. (52 pp.) exhib. cat., annotated b&w illus. throughout with biographical information on each artist. Intro. by Leo F. Twiggs. Artists listed are Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, William Artis, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Arthur L. Britt, Benjamin Britt, Francis H. (Sonny) Brown, Yvonne Pickering Carter, Claude Clark, Eldzier Cortor, David C. Driskell, Adolphus Ealey, Minnie Evans, Thomas Jefferson Flanagan, Fred Flemister, Edwin Augustus Harleston, Palmer Hayden, James V. Herring, Terry Hunter, Wilmer Jennings, Jesse Jeter, Malvin Gray Johnson, William H. Johnson, Larry Francis Lebby, Henri Linton, Lev Mills, Jimmie Mosley, Archibald Motley, James A. Porter, Lee Ransaw, James Reuben Reed, Gregory Ridley, Arthur Rose, Augusta Savage, Merton Simpson, Hughie Lee-Smith, Alma Thomas, Leo F. Twiggs, James Watkins, Edward B. Webster, James Lesesne Wells. An additional film series featured: "Two Centuries of Black American Art," "Made in Mississippi: Black Folk Art and Crafts" and "Black Art of the U.S.A." [Traveled to: Greenville County Museum of Art, November 9-December 6, 1979; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC, January 13-February 17, 1980.] [Review: Lynne Langley, "Charleston Black Arts Festival Focuses on Twentieth Century Work," The News and Courier (Charleston), September 7, 1979: 11 artists mentioned by name (with several misspellings); no illus.] 8vo (24 x 16 cm.), wraps. First ed.
CHARLESTON (SC). Gibbes Museum of Art. America at Work: WPA Prints from the Gibbes Collection. August 25, 2006-April 15, 2007. Group exhibition of approximately 25 prints from the Gibbes' permanent collection that were created under the auspices of the Federal Art project. Included: Claude Clark (Old Swede's Church, 1940).
CHASE, JUDITH WRAGG. Afro-American Art and Craft. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1971. 142 pp., 227 b&w illus., bibliog. Noteworthy inclusion of early plantation craftsmen, cabinetmakers, weavers, quiltmakers, basketmakers and woodcarvers as well as contemporary African American art and crafts. Includes: Charles Alston, William Artis, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Rohan Crite, Eldzier Cortor, William Craft, Dale Brockman Davis, Aaron Douglas, Minnie Evans, Regina Foreman, Allan Freelon, Reginald Gammon, William Hayden, Jacob Lawrence, Horace Pippin, Phillip P. Simmons, Peter Simmons, Elmer Davis Taylor, James Lesesne Wells, and hundreds of others. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed.
COLLEGE PARK (MD). David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland. Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art. February 18-May 29, 2009. 101 pp. exhib. cat., illus. Artists included: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, Herman Kofi Bailey, Radcliffe Bailey, Amiri Baraka, Camille J. Billops, Moe Brooker, Vivian Browne, Archie Byron, Carl Christian, Claude Clark, Sr., Kevin E. Cole, Ernest Crichlow, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Louis Delsarte, David C. Driskell, Michael Ellison, David Fludd, Ramon Gabriel, Reginald Gammon, Sam Gilliam, John W. Hardrick, Palmer Hayden, Vertis Hayes, Humbert Howard, Stefanie Jackson, Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Fred Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Ronald Joseph, Larry Lebby, Norman Lewis, Donald Locke, James H. Malone, Edward Martin, Richard Mayhew, Valerie Maynard, Ealy Mays, E.J. Montgomery, Norma Morgan, Hayward Oubre, Joe Overstreet, Howardena Pindell, Charles Porter, James A. Porter, Teri Richardson, Preston Sampson, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Jewel Simon, Walter A. Simon, Thelma Johnson Streat, Freddy Styles, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Bill Taylor, Bob Thompson, Mildred J. Thompson, Larry Walker, Joyce Wellman, Jack H. White, William T. Williams, Ellis Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Hartwell Yeargans, James Yeargans. [Traveled to: Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, January 30-March 28, 2011, and other venues.)
COLLEGE PARK (MD). University of Maryland Art Gallery. Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection. 1998. 192 pp., 94 color plates, 33 b&w illus., checklist of 100 works by 61 artists, biogs., bibliog. Text by Terry Gipps. Important artist's collection. Includes: Terry Adkins, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Grafton Tyler Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Sr., Robert Colescott, Eldzier Cortor, Allan Rohan Crite, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Aaron Douglas, David Driskell, Robert S. Duncanson, Melvin Edwards, Minnie Evans, Meta Warrick Fuller, Sam Gilliam, Michael D. Harris, James V. Herring, Earl J. Hooks, Margo Humphrey, Clementine Hunter, Wilmer Jennings, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Richard Mayhew, Jerome Meadows, William McNeil, Sam Middleton, Keith Morrison, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, James Phillips, Stephanie Pogue, P.H. Polk, Charles Ethan Porter, James A. Porter, Martin Puryear, Ray Saunders, Augusta Savage, Charles Sebree, Frank Smith, Vincent Smith, Gilda Snowden, Frank Stewart, Lou Stovall, Henry O. Tanner, Bill Traylor, Alma Thomas, Yvonne Edwards Tucker, James VanDerZee, Laura Wheeler Waring, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Walter Williams, William T. Williams, Ellis Wilson, Hale Woodruff. 4to (12 x 9 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
COLLIER-THOMAS, BETTYE. Creating a Place for Ourselves: Humbert Howard, Black Art, and the Pyramid Club of Philadelphia. N.d. (c.1996). Exhibition catalogue, illus., notes. Includes: William H. Dorsey, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Moses Williams, Allan Freelon. Robert Douglass, David Bustill Bowser, Alfred B. Stidum, May Howard Jackson, Meta Warrick Fuller, Henry Jones, Laura Wheeler Waring, Julian Abele, Lenwood Morris, Samuel Brown, John Brantley Wilder, Hewlett Brown, Dox Thrash, Raymond Steth, Franklin Syres, and Donald Peterson, Claude Clark. Arsie Lee Kennedy, Walter Smith. [http://www.thegalleriesatmoore.org/uploads/media/publications/downloads/BettyeCollier-Thomas.pdf]
COLUMBUS (OH). Ohio Historical Center. Soul! Art from the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center [Wilburforce]. May 1, 2009-February 27, 2010. Group exhibition. Curated by Floyd Thomas. Included: Cedric Adams, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Akosua Bandele, Richard Barclift, Richmond Barthé, John P. Beckley, Tina Brewer, Ashley Bryan, Calvin Burnett, Margarret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Dana Chandler, Claude Clark, Jeffrey Clark, Mary Reed Daniels, Willis (Bing) Davis, Louis Delsarte, Hayward Dinsmore, Raymond Dobard, Jeff Donaldson, Elton C. Fax, Tom Feelings, Manuel Gomez, Bernard Goss, M. E. Grayson, Clementine Hunter, Christina James, Brian Joiner, Jimi Jones, Jack Jordan, Clayton Lang, Jon Onye Lockard, Nola Lynch-Sheldon, Martina Johnson Allen, Victor Matthews, Valerie Maynard, Sylvia M. Miller, Velma Morris, Ademola Olugebefola, Elijah Pierce, Steve Prince, Patrick Reason, Annie Ruth, Betye Saar, Michael Sampson, Walter Simon, Michael Smith (sculptor), Ayanna Spears, Ann Tanksley, Yvonne Edwards Tucker, Harry Washington, Richard Wyatt, James "Bongo" Allen and unknown artist named Tilman. [Review: Kevin Joy, "Selections cover range of experiences by African-Americans" Columbus Dispatch, May 4, 2009; illus. "Golden Prison" by Dana Chandler.]:
COOKS, BRIDGET R. Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011. 240 pp., color illus., notes, index. The narrative begins in 1927 with the Chicago "Negro in Art Week" exhibition, and in the 1930s with the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition of "William Edmondson" (1937) and "Contemporary Negro Art" (1939) at the Baltimore Museum of Art; the focus, however, is on exhibitions held from the 1960s to present with chapters on "Harlem on My Mind" (1969), "Two Centuries of Black American Art" (1976); "Black Male" (1994-95); and "The Quilts of Gee's Bend" (2202). Numerous artists, but most mentioned only in passing: Cedric Adams, Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, numerous Bendolphs (Annie, Jacob, Mary Ann, Mary Lee, Louisiana) and Loretta Bennett, Ed Bereal, Donald Bernard, Nayland Blake, Gloria Bohanon, Leslie Bolling, St. Clair Bourne, Cloyd Boykin, Kay Brown, Selma Burke, Bernie Casey, Roland Charles, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Claude Clark, Linda Day Clark, Robert Colescott, Dan Concholar, Emilio Cruz, Ernest Crichlow (footnote only), Alonzo Davis, Selma Day (footnote only), Roy DeCarava, Aaron Douglas, Emory Douglas, Robert M. Douglass, Jr., David Driskell, Robert S. Duncanson, William Edmondson, Elton Fax (footnote only), Cecil L. Fergerson, Roland Freeman, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Reginald Gammon (footnote only), K.D. Ganaway, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, William A. Harper, Palmer Hayden, Vertis C. Hayes, Barkley L. Hendricks, James V. Herring, Richard Hunt, Rudy Irwin, May Howard Jackson, Suzanne Jackson, Joshua Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Gwendolyn Knight, Wifredo Lam, Artis Lane, Jacob Lawrence, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Samella Lewis, Alvin Loving (footnote only), William Majors (footnote only), Richard Mayhew, Reginald McGhee, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Richard Mayhew, Willie Middlebrook, Ron Moody, Lottie and Lucy Mooney, Flora Moore, Scipio Moorhead, Norma Morgan, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Sara Murrell (footnote only), Otto Neals (footnote only), Odili Donald Odita, Noni Olubisi, Ademola Olugebefola, John Outterbridge, Gordon Parks, six Pettways (Annie E., Arlonzia, Bertha, Clinton, Jr., Jesse T., Letisha), James Phillips, Howardena Pindell, Horace Pippin, Carl Pope, James A. Porter, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Noah Purifoy, Martin Puryear, Okoe Pyatt (footnote only), Robert Reid (footnote only), John Rhoden, John Riddle, Faith Ringgold (footnote only), Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders (footnote only), Augusta Savage, William E. Scott, Georgette Seabrook, James Sepyo (footnote only), Taiwo Shabazz (footnote only), Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Merton Simpson (footnote only), Albert Alexander Smith, Arenzo Smith, Frank Stewart, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Danny Tisdale, Melvin Van Peebles, James Vanderzee, Annie Walker, Kara Walker, Augustus Washington, Timothy Washington, Carrie Mae Weems, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Pat Ward Williams, William T. Williams, Deborah Willis, Fred Wilson, Ernest C. Withers, Beulah Ecton Woodard, Hale Woodruff, Lloyd Yearwood, Annie Mae and Nettie Pettway Young. 8vo (9 x 6 in.), wraps.
DAVIS (CA). Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis. Mosaic. February, 1980. Group exhibition. Included: Claude Lockhart Clark, Oliver Jackson, Mary Lovelace O'Neal. [Review: Allan M. Gordon, "A Mosaic of Cultures and Forms," Artweek 11 (February 2, 1980):6.]
DOVER, CEDRIC. American Negro Art. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1960. 186 pp., over 300 illus., 8 color plates, bibliog. by Maureen Dover, index of artists and works, general index. Ground-breaking study, still extremely important for illustrations of work by artists not illustrated elsewhere, and many others mentioned as well. Includes (some with only brief mention): John Henry Adams, Jr., Alonzo Aden, William Artis, Henry Bannarn, Edward Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Robert Blackburn, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase, Irene Clark, Claude Clark, Eldzier Cortor, Charles C. Davis, Beauford Delaney, Richard Dempsey, Aaron Douglas, Robert Duncanson, Elton Fax, Meta Warrick Fuller, Rex Goreleigh, Eugene Grigsby, Jr., Phillip Hampton, Edwin A. Harleston, William M. Hayden, Vertis Hayes, G. W. Hobbs (now known to be white), Alvin Hollingsworth, Earl Hooks, Humbert Howard, Julien Hudson, Richard Hunt, May Howard Jackson, Wilmer Jennings, Malvin Gray Johnson, William H. Johnson, Sargent Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Lois Mailou Jones, Jack Jordan, Joseph Kersey, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Edward Loper, Scipio Moorhead, Archibald Motley, Haywood Oubré, Marion Perkins, Harper Phillips, Horace Pippin, James Porter, Patrick Reason, John Rhoden, John Robinson, Walter Sanford, Augusta Savage, Charles Sebree, Carroll Simms, Merton Simpson, William Simpson, Henry O. Tanner, Alma Thomas, Dox Thrash, Eugene Warburg, James Wells, Charles White, Walter Williams, Stan Williamson, Ed Wilson, Edwin E. Wilson, Ellis Wilson, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff. [Reviews: Margaret Burroughs, Freedomways 1 (Spring 1961):107-110; Romare Bearden, Leonardo [Oxford, England] 3 (Apr. 1970):241-243; Numa J. Roussève, Interracial Review [St. Louis, MO] 34 (May 1961):140-141.] 8vo (25 cm.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
DRISKELL, DAVID C. Two Centuries of Black American Art. Los Angeles: Museum of Art, 1976. 221 pp. exhib. cat., 205 illus., 32 in color, bibliog., index. Groundbreaking survey exhibition of African American art. Texts by Driskell; catalogue notes by Leonard Simon. Includes Dave the Potter, Charles H. Alston, William E. Artis, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Grafton Tyler Brown, David Butler, Selma Burke, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Eldzier Cortor, Allan Rohan Crite, Thomas Day, Joseph Delaney, Aaron Douglas, Robert S. Duncanson, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Edwin A. Harleston, Palmer Hayden, Felrath Hines, Earl J. Hooks, Julien Hudson, Clementine Hunter, Wilmer Jennings, James Butler Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Richard Mayhew, Sam Middleton, Leo Moss, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Marion Perkins, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, Patrick Reason, John Rhoden, Gregory Ridley, Jr., William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Henry Ossawa Tanner, William (Bill) Taylor, Alma Thomas, Dox Thrash, Laura Wheeler Waring, Edward Webster, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Walter Williams, Ed Wilson, Ellis Wilson, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff. Additional artists mentioned in the text: James Allen, Leslie Bolling, John Kane (?), Jules Lion, James Vanderzee, many more. [Traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX; and the Brooklyn Museum, NY.] 4to, wraps. First ed.
FORT WORTH (TX). Amon Carter Museum. The Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper. 2009. Group exhibition. 69 works from the late 1800s-2002 - drawings, etchings, lithographs, watercolors, pastels, acrylics, gouaches, linoleum and color screen prints. Included 47 artists: Ron Adams, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Bob Blackburn, Elmer Brown, Grafton Tyler Brown, Hilda Wilkinson Brown, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Robert Colescott, Eldizer Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Richard Dempsey, Aaron Douglas, William McKnight Farrow, Allan R. Freelon, Reginald Gammon, Rex Goreleigh, Margo Humphrey, William H. Johnson, Sargent Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Paul Keene, Wifredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Lionel Lofton, Bert Long, Whitfield Lovell, Sam Middleton, Dean Mitchell, Ike Morgan, William Pajaud, Alison Saar, Charles Sallee, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Albert A. Smith, William E. Smith, Raymond Steth, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma W. Thomas, Dox Thrash, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Walter Williams, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff. [Traveling exhibition.] [Images: http://www.a-r-t.com/kelley/#images]
FRYE, DANIEL J. African American Visual Artists: an annotated bibliography of educational resource materials. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001. xvi, 378 pp. Many misspellings of artists' names and a handful of white artists included. 8vo (23 cm.), cloth.
GORDAN, ALLAN M. Nommo Muse: Black Improvisation in California. 1980. In: New Art Examiner 7 (June 1980):6-7. Charles White, Samella Lewis, Alonzo Davis, John Outterbridge, Ruth Waddy, David Hammons, Noah Purifoy, Claude Clark Sr., Sargent Johnson, E. J. Montgomery. Cleveland Bellow, Charles Blackwell, Robert Colescott, Mike Henderson, Margo Humphrey, Suzanne Jackson, Marie Johnson, Arthur Monroe, Betye Saar, Larry Walker, Horace Washington, Oliver Jackson, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Raymond Saunders.
HAMPTON (VA). Hampton University. The International Review of African American Art Vol. 10, no. 3 (1993). 1993. Journeying Beyond: The Prints and Paintings of Joyce Wellman by Richard J. Powell; The Abstract Art of Felrath Hines: Icons of Perfect Neutrality by William E. Taylor; 1993: Anniversary Year for Three Renowned Artists by Jeanne Zeidler; Tribute to James Lesesne Wells by Lois Mailou Jones; Two Naturalists: E. Hutchinson and M. Simon; Ken Falana: Florida Artist by Yvonne Tucker; Claude Clark Sr.: Reminiscence; Interview with Fravange Valcin by William Watson Hines. Artists include: Felrath Hines, Charles White, Joyce Wellman, Eric Hutchinson, Micheal Simon, Charles Hutchinson, Ken Felana, Claude Clark, Sr., Fravange Valcin, and Henry Ossawa Tanner. 4to, wraps.
HAMPTON (VA). Hampton University. The International Review of African American Art Vol. 17, no. 2 (1998). 1998. This issue contains: "William Pajaud and the Jazz Funeral Tradition;" article on Danny Simmons and the jazz hip-hop visual tradition empire by Cherilyn Wright; "Aaron Douglas at 100" by Aaronetta Pierce. "Imagining the Amistad;" William Tolliver 1951-2000 (obituary); "New Thoughts About That Old Black Magic" by Juliette Harris; "A Mother's Grief; an Artist's Response" by Leatha Mitchell; "A Publishing First!" by Harriet Kelley; "Art; Love and Sex In Black and White" by Stephanie Saft-Phelan; "Deborah Willis; Artist and Scholar" by Winston Kennedy. Artwork: William Pajaud (cover), Edouard Duval-Carrié, Allan Rohan Crite, Palmer Hayden, Claude Clark, Elizabeth Catlett, Leroy Clark, Vincent Smith, Antonio Carreno, Danny Simmons, Aaron Douglas, Colleen Coleman, Howardena Pindell, Ed Hamilton, Delphine Fawundu, Jeffery Henson Scales, William Tolliver, Pierre Legrain, Sylvia Snowden, Jacob Lawrence, Samella Lewis, Addison N. Scurlock, Ted Pontiflet. 4to, wraps.
HAMPTON (VA). Hampton University. The International Review of African American Art Vol. 17, no. 4 (2001). 2001. 64 pp., mostly color illus., documentary photos. Feature articles on Lorraine Williams Bolton, Lawrence A. Jones, Hayward L. Oubre, Claude Clark; reviews of exhibitions by Horace Pippin, Martin Puryear; a WPA Show at the Malcolm Brown Gallery, Renee Cox, Kara Walker, Larry Walker, Vincent D. Smith, Charles McGill, Todd Murphy, Beatrice LeBreton; Louis Cameron, and the Studio Museum "Freestyle" exhibition; as well as an article on Andew Wyeth's portraits of his African American friends and neghbors at Chadd's Ford, PA. Images of artwork by all of the above and Ernest Alexander, Aaron Bain, Caspar Banjo, Sharon Barnes, Terry Boddie, Leroy Campbell, Melvin Clark, Eldzier Cortor, Francks Deceus, Malaika Favorite, Reginald Gammon, Leamon Green, D.K. Greene (?Donald O. Greene?), Adler Guerrier, Paul Houzell, Ed Hughes, Vincent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Gwendolyn Knight, Todd Murphy, Kori Newkirk, Edsel Reid, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Andrew Turner, Hale Woodruff. 4to, wraps.
HAMPTON (VA). Hampton University. The International Review of African American Art Vol. 20, no. 1. 2004-5. This issue surveys Hampton University’s historic art and archival collections. Hampton was the first university to establish an African American art collection. Artists included: Joshua Johnson, Henry O. Tanner (4 works), Robert S. Duncanson, Edward M. Bannister, Charles Ethan Porter, William Edouard Scott, John Wesley Hardrick, Albert Alexander Smith, James Lesesne Wells, Augusta Savage, Aaron Douglas, Lois Mailou Jones, Ellis Willis, Malvin Gray Johnson, Archibald Motley, Jr., William Artis, Sargent Johnson, Hale Woodruff (2), Palmer Hayden, William H. Johnson (2), Jacob Lawrence (3), Charles White (2), Elizabeth Catlett (2), Beauford Delaney, Charles Alston, Samella Lewis (2), Joseph Gilliard, Persis Jennings, Claude Clark, John Biggers (3), Mose Tolliver, Felrath Hines, William Pajaud, Romare Bearden, Herman (Kofi) Bailey, Ed Hamilton, Charles Young, Nanette Carter, and Moe Brooker. Contemporary African-born artists include: Skunder Boghossian, Bruce Onabrakpeya, Ben Enwonwu, Ibrahim el Salahi and Akinola Lasekan. Archival photographs by white photographers Leigh Minor and Frances Benjamin Johnston; and photographs by Reuben Burrell. 4to, wraps.
HAMPTON (VA). Hampton University Museum. Faithful Voices: Four Decades of African-American Art. October, 1998. Group exhibition of nine artists. Included: Claude Clark, Paul Keene, Reginald Gammon, James Brantley, Samella Lewis, Hughie Lee-Smith, Allan Rohan Crite, Calvin Burnett, and John Wilson. [Feature review by Jeanne Zeidler, The International Review of African American Art Vol. 15, no. 3 (1998):2-10.] 4to, wraps.
HARLEY, RALPH L., JR. Checklist of Afro-American Art and Artists. Kent State University Libraries, 1970. In: Serif 7 (December 1970):3-63. What could have been the solid foundation of future scholarship is unfortunately marred by errors of all kinds and the inclusion of numerous white artists. All Black artists are cross-referenced.
HILDEBRANDT, LORRAINE and RICHARD S. AIKEN, eds. A Bibliography of Afro-American Print and Non-Print Resources in Libraries of Pierce County, Washington. Tacoma Community College Library, 1969. Artists include: Charles Alston, William Artis, Henry Avery, Henry Bannarn, Edward Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Carter Bazile, Romare Bearden, Rigaud Bénoit, Charles Bible, John Biggers, Wilson Bigaud, Eloise Bishop, Robert Blackburn, Ramos Blanco (Uruguayan), James Bland, Leslie Bolling, Seymour Bottex, Elmer Brown, Fred Brown, Samuel Brown, Selma Burke, Calvin Burnett, E. Simms Campbell, William Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase, Ernest Crichlow, Claude Clark, William Arthur Cooper, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Crite, Harvey Cropper, Charles Dawson, Joseph Delaney, Richard Dempsey, Lillian A. Dorsey, Aaron Douglas, Glanton Dowdell, Robert S. Duncanson, William Edmondson, William Farrow, Elton Fax, Fred Flemister, Allan Freelon, Meta Fuller, Rex Goreleigh [as Gorleigh], Bernard Goss, Eugene Grigsby, John Hardrick, Edwin Harleston, William Harper, Isaac Hathaway, Palmer Hayden, William Hayden, Vertis Hayes, Geoffrey Holder, Al Hollingsworth, Humbert Howard, Richard Hunt, May Jackson, Daniel Larue Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent C. Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Henry B. Jones, Lois Jones, Ronald Joseph, Paul Keene, Joseph Kersey, Oliver LaGrone, Jacob Lawrence, Clarence Lawson, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Edward Loper, John C. Lutz, Geraldine McCullough, Charles McGee, Lloyd McNeil, William Majors, Sam Middleton, Ronald C. Moody, Scipio Moorhead, Norma Morgan, Archibald Motley, Robert L. Neal, Hayward L. Oubré, Joe Overstreet, Pastor Argudin y Pedroso [as Argudin (Pastor) Pedrosa], Marion Perkins, Harper Phillips, Delilah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Robert Pious, James Porter, Elizabeth Prophet, Florence Purviance, John Robinson, Leo Robinson, Augusta Savage, William Edouard Scott, Georgette Seabrooke, Charles Sebree, Merton Simpson, William H. Simpson, Albert Alexander Smith, Marvin Smith, Thelma Johnson Streat, Henry O. Tanner, Bob Thompson, Dox Thrash [as Thrasher], Laura Waring, James Washington, James Wells [see also Lesesne Wells], Charles White, Jack Whitten, Walter Williams, Ellis Wilson, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff.
HUNTSVILLE (AL). Huntsville Museum of Art. Black Artists / South. April 1-July 29, 1979. 64 pp., illus., bibliog. Dedicated to Aaron Douglas. One of the most substantial exhibitions of Black artists of the '70s, curated by Ralph M. Hudson. 150 artists included: Charles H. Alston, Frederick C. Alston, Emma Amos, William Anderson, Benny Andrews, Emmanuel V. Asihene, William E. Artis, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Herman Beasley, John T. Biggers, Betty Blayton, Shirley Bolton, Arthur L. Britt, Sr., Wendell T. Brooks, Arthur Carraway, George Washington Carver, Yvonne Parks Catchings, Elizabeth Catlett, Don Cincone, Claude Clark, Claude Lockhart Clark, Benny Cole, Tarrence Corbin, G. C. Coxe, Ernest Crichlow, Ernest J. Davidson, Jr., Joseph Delaney, James Denmark, Murry N. Depillars, Hayward R. Dinsmore, Sr., Jeff R. Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, David Driskell, William Edmondson, Marion Epting, Burford E. Evans, Minnie Evans, Elton Fax, Sam Gilliam, J. Eugene Grigsby, Robert Hall, Phillip Hampton, Isaac Hathaway, Wilbur Haynie, Alfred Hinton, Fannie Holman, Earl J. Hooks, John W. Howard, Jean Paul Hubbard, Earnestine Huff, James Huff, Clementine Hunter, A.B. Jackson, Wilmer Jennings, Bill Johnson, Harvey L. Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, William H. Johnson, William E. Johnston, James Edward Jones, Lawrence A. Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Ted Jones, Jack Jordan, James E. Kennedy, Virginia Jackson Kiah, Simmie L. Knox, Lawrence Compton Kolawole, Jean Lacy, Larry Francis Lebby, Hughie Lee-Smith, Samella Lewis, Henri Linton, Oscar Logan, Jesse Lott, Nina Lovelace, Edward McCluney, Jr., Phillip L. Mason, Steve Matthews, Grady Garfield Miles, Minnie Marianne Miles, Lev Mills, Clifford Mitchell, Corinne Mitchell, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Jimmie Mosely, Jr., Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Otto Neals, Trudell Mimms Obey, Hayward L. Oubré, John Outterbridge, Joe Overstreet, Roderick Owens, William Pajaud, Curtis Patterson, John Payne, Clifton Pearson, Marion Perkins, Harper Phillips, Robert Pious, Stephanie Pogue, P.H. Polk, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Roscoe C. Reddix, Robert Reid, Leon Renfro, John W. Rhoden, John T. Riddle, Jr., Gregory D. Ridley, Jr., Haywood Rivers, Arthur Rose, John T. Scott, Thomas Sills, Carroll H. Simms, Jewel Woodard Simon, Merton D. Simpson, Van E. Slater, Maurice Strider, Clarence Talley, James Tanner, Alma Thomas, Elaine F. Thomas, Bob Thompson, Mose Tolliver, Dox Thrash, Leo F. Twiggs, Harry Vital, Larry Walker, James W. Washington, Jr., James Watkins, Clifton G. Webb, James Lesesne Wells, Amos White, Charles White, Jessie Whitehead, Claudia Widdiss, Chester Williams, Walter J. Williams, William T. Williams, Ed Wilson, Ellis Wilson, Everett L. Winrow, Viola Wood, Hale Woodruff, Doris Woodson, Charles A. Young, Kenneth Young, Milton Young. 4to (29 cm.), felt-covered wraps. First ed.
Ivoryton (CT). ART Gallery Magazine. The ART Gallery Magazine: Afro-American issue (Vol. 11, no. 7, April 1968). 1968. Special Afro-American issue. Approx. 100 pp., b&w and color illus. Includes: Alonzo J. Aden, Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Eric Anderson, Benny Andrews, William E. Artis, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Sheman Beck, Ed Bereal, John T. Biggers, Betty Blayton, Sylvester Britton, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, William S. Carter, Bernie Casey, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Edward Christmas, Claude Clark, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Rohan Crite, Emilio Cruz, Mary Reed Daniel, Charles C. Dawson, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Avel DeKnight, Richard Dempsey, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, David C. Driskell, Robert S. Duncanson, Eugene Eda, William Edmondson, Melvin Edwards, John Farrar, Frederick C. Flemister, Meta Warrick Fuller, Reginald Gammon, Sam Gilliam, Robert Glover, Russell T. Gordon, Bernard Goss, Phillip Hampton, Marvin Harden, Romaine Harris, Eugene Hawkins, Palmer Hayden, Wilbur Haynie, Reginald Helm, James Herring, Leon Hicks, Vivian Hieber (?), Felrath Hines, Alvin Hollingsworth, Humbert Howard, Richard Hunt, A.B. Jackson, Hiram E. Jackson, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Frederic Jones (presumably Frederick D. Jones, Jr.), Lois Mailou Jones, Robert Edmond Jones, Jack Jordan, Sr., Louis Joseph Jordan, Ronald Joseph (as Joseph Ronald), Paul Keene, Joseph Kersey, Herman King, Sidney Kumalo, Jacob Lawrence, Clarence Lawson, Clifford Lee, Hughie Lee-Smith, James Edward Lewis, Jr., Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Tom Lloyd, Alvin Loving, William Majors, Howard Mallory, Jr., David Mann, Richard Mayhew, Anna McCullough, Geraldine McCullough, Charles W. McGee, Lloyd McNeill, Jr., Earl Miller, Norma Morgan, Jimmie Mosely, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Texeira Nash, Frank W. Neal, George E. Neal, Hayward L. Oubre, Jr., James D. Parks, Marion Perkins, Robert S. Pious, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, Judson Powell, Ramon Price, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Noah Purifoy, Mavis Pusey, Robert D. Reid, John W. Rhoden, Haywood "Bill" Rivers, Henry C. Rollins, Mahler Ryder, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Jewel Simon, Merton D. Simpson, Van Slater, Carroll Sockwell, John Stevens, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Ralph M. Tate, Lawrence Taylor, John Torres, Jr., Alfred J. Tyler, Ruth G. Waddy, William Walker, Eugene Warburg, Howard N. Watson, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Jack H. White, Jack Whitten, Garrett Whyte, Sam William, Douglas R. Williams, Jose Williams, Todd Williams, Walter H. Williams, Stan Williamson, Ed Wilson, Ellis Wilson, John W. Wilson, Roger Wilson, Hale A. Woodruff, James E. Woods, Roosevelt (Rip) Woods, Charles Yates, Hartwell Yeargans, et al. 8vo (24 cm.; 9 x 6 in.), wraps.
KATONAH (NY). Katonah Museum of Art. Revisiting American Art: Works from the Collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. 1997. 36 pp. exhib. cat., 18 color plates (including covers), checklist of painting and sculpture by 40 African American artists from the 1930s through the 1970s. Curated and text by Debra Spencer; additional essay by Edmund Barry Gaither. Includes Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Eldzier Cortor, Beauford Delaney, David Driskell, Elton Fax, Edwin Harleston, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Sam Middleton, Norma Morgan, Hughie Lee-Smith, Horace Pippin, James Porter, Augusta Savage, Charles Sebree, Alma Thomas, Charles White, Walter Williams, Hale Woodruff and many more. Sq. 8vo (8.5 x 8.5 in.), pictorial wraps. First ed.
LAKE CHARLES (LA). Historic City Hall. The Harriet and Harmon Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper. February 1-March 31, 2007. Exhib. cat., illus. Traveling exhibition of 69 works on paper dating from the late1800s to 2002. Curated and text by Regenia Perry. Included in the exhibition are drawings, etchings, lithographs, watercolors, pastels, acrylics, gouaches, linoleum and color screen prints by such noted artists as Ron Adams, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Bob Blackburn, Grafton Tyler Brown, Elmer Brown, Hilda Wilkerson Brown, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Robert Colescott, Ernest Crichlow, Eldzier Cortor, Charles Criner, Mary Reed Daniel, Richard Dempsey, Aaron Douglas, William M. Farrow, Allan Freelon, Reginald Gammon, Rex Goreleigh, Margo Humphrey, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Paul Keene, Wifredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Lionel Lofton, Bert Long, Whitfield Lovell, Sam Middleton, Dean Mitchell, Ike Morgan, William Pajaud, Alison Saar, Charles L. Sallee, William E. Scott, Albert A. Smith, William E. Smith, Raymond Steth, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Dox Thrash, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Walter Williams, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff. [Traveled to: College of Wooster Art Museum. Wooster, OH, August 28-October 28, 2007; Degenstein Art Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA, January 15-March 15, 2008; Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL, July 1-October 15, 2008; Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, TX, June 6-August 23, 2009; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, September 23, 2009-January 3, 2010; The Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL, November 13, 2010-January 16, 2011; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE, May 27-September 25, 2011, and other venues.] and other venues.]
LOS ANGELES (CA). California African American Museum. In the Hands of African American Collectors: The Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey. September 28, 2006-March 11, 2007. 112 pp. exhib. cat., full-page color illus., biogs. of most artists. Curated by Evelyn Carter, Jill Moniz and Christopher D. Jimenez y West; texts by Gary Nash and Rita Roberts; reflections as collectors, Bernard and Shirley Kinsey. Group exhibition of work collected by the Kinseys in Los Angeles for the past 35 years. Includes some 90 paintings, sculptures, prints, books, documents, manuscripts and vintage photographs. Artists include: Ron Adams, Tina Allen, Charles Alston, Edward M. Bannister, Ernie Barnes, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Phoebe Beasley, John Biggers, Bob Blackburn, Grafton Tyler Brown, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Allan Rohan Crite, Bill Dallas, Robert S. Duncanson, Samuel L. Dunson Jr., Ed Dwight, Sam Gilliam, Jonathan Green, Palmer Hayden, Richard Hunt, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Artis Lane, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Lionel Lofton, Richard Mayhew, William Pajaud, James Porter, Edward Pratt, Sue Jane Mitchell Smock, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Matthew Thomas, William Tolliver, James Lesesne Wells. [Traveled to: South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, July 13, 2007-March 2, 2008; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, May 1-July 20, 2008.] 4to (28 cm.), wraps.
LOS ANGELES (CA). California African American Museum. Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Descent. February 11-September 30, 1989. 83, (17) pp. exhib. cat., 17 color plates, 33 b&w illus., map, exhib. checklist, bibliog. Curated by Henry J. Drewal and David C. Driskell. 12 American and 14 Brazilian artists including: Yvonne Pickering Carter, Claude Clark, Robert Colescott, Houston Conwill, Emilio Cruz, Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, Bill Hutson, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Tyrone Mitchell, Keith Morrison, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Sylvia Snowden, Jack Whitten, et al. Major texts by Henry Drewal, David Driskell, Sheila Walker. [Traveled to Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY.] 4to (31 cm.), wraps. First ed.
MCCABE, JANE A. Fine Arts and the Black American / Music and the Black American. Bloomington: Indiana University Libraries, 1969. 33 pp. Useful older bibliographic reference. 4to, stapled wraps, mimeograph.
MEYERS, MARY ANN. Art, Education & African American Culture: Albert Barnes and the Science of Philanthropy. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2004. xiii, 452 pp., 13 illus., bibliog., index. 8vo (24 x 16 cm.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
MONTCLAIR (NJ). Montclair Art Museum. Recent Work by Negro Artists. February 8-16, 1947. Group exhibition of work borrowed from the Harmon Foundation. Included: Claude Clark, Palmer Hayden, William Artis.
MONTGOMERY (AL). National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture, Alabama State University. Visions from Within. January 14-June 14, 2004. An exhibition commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Group exhibition of paintings and other works by 22 members of the National Alliance of Artists from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (NAAHBCU). Included: Benny Andrews, Amy Bryan, Claude Clark, Willis (Bing) Davis, Ronald Kennedy, Lionel Lofton, Barbara Nesin, Lee Ransaw, Cleve Webber, Jacqueline Webber, Dennis Winston, Hale Woodruff, et al. [Traveled to Claflin University, Columbia, SC; James E. Kemp Gallery, Dallas, TX; Apex, Atlanta, GA.]
MYERS, CAROL L., compiled and ed. Black Power in the Arts. Flint (MI): Flint Board of Education, 1970. ix, 105 pp., illus. 8vo (21 cm.), wraps.
NASHVILLE (TN). Fisk University Art Gallery. The Afro-American Collection, Fisk University. 1976. 64 pp. exhib. cat., illus., brief biogs., checklist of works by 63 artists in the Fisk University Collection as of 1976. Pref. by Robert L. Hall; text by David C. Driskell. Artists include: Skunder Boghossian, Ellen Bond, Jacqueline Bontemps, Michael Borders, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Samuel Countee, Ralph Arnold, William Artis, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, G. Caliman Coxe, Allan Crite, Dante (Donald Graham), Jeff Donaldson, Lilian Dorsey, Aaron Douglas, John Dowell, David Driskell, Elton Fax, Wilhelmina Godfrey [as Godfrey Wilhelmina], Clementine Hunter, Louise Jefferson, Adrienne Jenkins, Wilmer Jennings, Palmer Hayden, Earl J. Hooks, Manuel Hughes, Ben Jones, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Ben Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Sam Middleton, James Miles, Keith Morrison, Roderick Owens, James Phillips, Stephanie Pogue, James Porter, Martin Puryear, Gregory Ridley, Leo Robinson, William E. Scott, John Scott, Albert A. Smith, Vincent Smith, David Stephens, Nelson Stevens, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Bill Traylor, Alma Thomas, Mildred Thompson, James Wells, Charles White, Benjamin Wigfall, Walter Williams, William T. Williams, Ellis Wilson, Viola Wood, Hale Woodruff and Charles Young. 4to (28 cm.), wraps.
NASHVILLE (TN). Fisk University, Department of Art. Amistad II: Afro-American Art. 1975. 92 pp. exhib. cat., 74 b&w illus., checklist of 79 works by 53 African American artists. Text by David C. Driskell, self-interview by Allan M. Gordon, text on Amistad incident by Grant Spradling. Artists include: Benny Andrews, William Artis, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Betty Blayton, Michael Borders, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, Henry O. Tanner, Claude Clark, Sr., Claude Lockhart Clark, Eldzier Cortor, Allan Rohan Crite, Bing Davis, Philip Randolph Dotson, Aaron Douglas, John Dowell, David Driskell, William Edmondson, Palmer Hayden, Earl Hooks, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Lawrence Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Ted Jones, David McDonald, Sam Middleton, Keith Morrison, Archibald Motley, James Porter, Gregory Ridley, Raymond Saunders, Charles Sebree, Albert Alexander Smith, Vincent D. Smith, Bill Taylor, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Walter Williams, William T. Williams, Ellis Wilson, and others. 4to (29 cm.), wraps. First ed.
NEW ORLEANS (LA). Amistad Research Center and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Beyond the Blues: Reflections of Africa America in the Fine Arts Collection of the Amistad Research Center. April 11-July 11, 2010. 188 pp., 316 illus. (302 in color). This publication serves both as a catalogue of the exhibition and also as documentation of the majority of works in the Amistad's collection. Foreword by David C. Driskell; texts by curator Margaret Rose Vendryes, Lowery Stokes Sims, Michael D. Harris, and Renee Ater. See exhibition checklist: http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/beyond_the_blues/works.html. 4to, boards. Ed. of 1000.
NEW ORLEANS (LA). Stella Jones Gallery. Ebony soliloquy: a five year retrospective (1996-2001). 2001. 47 pp. exhib. cat., illus. (mostly color.) Preface by Samella Lewis. Group exhibition. Included: Richard Barthé, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Herbert Gentry, Loïs Mailou Jones, Phoebe Beasley, Yvonne Edwards-Tucker, Artis Lane, Evangeline "EJ" Montgomery, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Ann Tanksley, Louis Delsarte, Malaika Favorite, Randall Henry, Dennis Paul Williams, Tayo Adenaike, El Anatsui, Antonio Carreño, LeRoy Clarke, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Wosene Kosrof, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Ernest Crichlow, Reginald Gammon, Richard Hunt, Samella Lewis, Richard Mayhew, William "Bill" Pajaud, Jr., Gordon Parks, Sr., Ron Adams, Benny Andrews, Allan Rohan Crite, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Francisco Mora, James Amos Porter, Vincent Smith. 4to (28 cm.), wraps.
NEW YORK (NY). City College, CUNY. The Evolution of Afro-American Artists; 1800-1950. 1967. 70 pp., 47 full-page b&w illus., biogs. and checklist of works exhibited. Co-curated by Romare Bearden and Carroll Greene, Jr. Includes: 6 works of African heritage art and 54 artists: Joshua Johnson (as Johnston), Edward M. Bannister, Edmonia Lewis, Robert S. Duncanson, William Simpson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Meta Warrick Fuller, Aaron Douglas, Richmond Barthé, Palmer Hayden, Hale Woodruff, Archibald Motley, Augusta Savage, William E. Scott, Albert Smith, James A. Porter, Allan Rohan Crite, Malvin Gray Johnson, William H. Johnson, O. Richard Reid, Laura Waring, William E. Braxton, James L. Wells, Edwin A. Harleston, Lois Mailou Jones, Hughie Lee-Smith, Fred Flemister, John T. Biggers, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Charles Alston, Charles White, John Wilson, Elizabeth Catlett, William Artis, William Edmondson (as Edmonson), Horace Pippin, Earle Richardson (as Earl), Claude Clark, Ernest Crichlow, Ellis Wilson, Robert Blackburn, Robert S. Pious, Norman Lewis, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Selma Burke, Eldzier Cortor, Ronald Joseph, Humbert Howard, Heywood Rivers, Richard Mayhew, Merton D. Simpson, and John Farrar.
NEW YORK (NY). Downtown Gallery. American Negro Art, 19th and 20th Centuries. December 9, 1941-January 3, 1942. Exhib. cat. The first show of African American art held at a mainstream commercial gallery, the exhibition, curated by gallery owner Edith Halpert, was sponsored by a committee of prominent white patrons including Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, Archibald MacLeish, A. Philip Randolph, and Eleanor Roosevelt. Among its aims were to raise money for the Negro Art Fund, to promote museum acquisitions of work by Black artists, and to encourage galleries to represent the living participants. In addition to providing its facilities, the Downtown Gallery donated all sales commissions to the Negro Art Fund and added Jacob Lawrence to its roster of artists at this time. Artists included: 19th century: Edward Bannister, Robert Duncanson, Edwin Harleston, William H. Simpson, Henry O. Tanner; 20th century: Charles Alston, Henry Avery, Romare Bearden, Samuel J. Brown, William S. Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Felton Coleman, Eldzier Cortor, Cleo Crawford, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Crite, Charles Davis, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Palmer Hayden, Malvin Gray Johnson, William H. Johnson, Ron Joseph, Paul Keene, Joseph Kersey, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Elba Lightfoot, Archibald Motley, Frederick Perry, Horace Pippin, Charles Sebree, George N. Victory, Charles White, Ellis Wilson, Hale Woodruff. Printmakers: Robert Blackburn, John Borican, Claude Clarke, Wilmer Jennings, Bryant Pringle, Raymond Steth, Dox Thrash, James L. Wells. Sculptors: William Artis, Richmond Barthé, Selma Burke, William Edmondson, Sargent Johnson, Martha Manning, Augusta Savage, John Henry Smith. [See copy of catalogue in National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, vertical files.] [Listed in Magazine of Art 34 (Nov. 1941):497 with incorrect dates. Review in Art Digest, December 15, 1941, praises the show, but in exceedingly demeaning racist language: "The American Negro has at last spoken in art -- firmly and distinctively, his voice having as definite an intonation with colors as his soul has in singing and dancing. His choice of dazzling colors is just as typical as his exaggerated sense of humor, his strut and guffaw; his concern with the burdened just as characteristic as his pleading songs to his Maker."
NEW YORK (NY). Ebony Editors. Ebony Handbook. Chicago: Johnson Publisnt Company Pub., 1974. Of historical interest only. Includes over 150 artists, more than double the number who were included in Ebony's Negro Handbook of 1966. Nonetheless, this represents a very limited selection compared with the St. Louis Index (1972) and Cederholm (1973) which had been published in the two years immediately preceeding this revision. Includes: Charles Alston, Eileen Anderson, Ralph Arnold, William E. Artis, Kwasi Asante, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Sherman Beck, Ben Bey, Michelle C. Bey, John T. Biggers, Gloria Bohanon, Lorraine Bolton, Shirley Bolton, Elmer Brown, Samuel J. Brown, Herbert Bruce, Joan Bryant, Selma Burke, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Nathaniel Bustion, William S. Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Benjamin Clark, Claude Clark, Irene V. Clark, Floyd Coleman, Eldzier Cortor, Samuel Countee, G. C. Coxe, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Rohan Crite, Alonzo J. Davis, Charles C. Dawson, Richard Dempsey, J. Brooks Dendy, Jeff Donaldson, Harold S. Dorsey, Aaron Douglas, Annette Ensley, Marion Epting, P. Fernand (listed only in this publication), Frederick C. Flemister, Ausbra Ford, Leroy Foster, Meta Vaux Fuller, Rex Goreleigh, Joseph E. Grey, J. Eugene Grigsby, John W. Hardrick, Oliver Harrington, Frank Hayden, Palmer Hayden, Vertis C. Hayes, Eselean Henderson, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Humbert Howard, Kenneth Howard (in this publication only), Richard Hughes, Richard Hunt, J.D. Jackson, Wilmer Jennings, Lester L. Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Ben Jones, Lawrence Jones, Lois Maillou Jones, Mark Jones, Charles Keck, James E. Kennedy, Joseph Kersey, Henri Umbaji King, Omar Lama, Jacob Lawrence, Clifford Lee, Hughie Lee-Smith, Leon Leonard, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Edward L. Loper, Anderson Macklin, William Majors, Stephen Mayo, Geraldine McCullough, Eva Hamlin Miller, Rosetta Dotson Minner, Corinne Mitchell, James Mitchell, Norma Morgan, Jimmie Mosely, Archibald J. Motley, Dindga McCannon, David Normand, Hayward Oubre, Sandra Peck, Marion Perkins, Alvin Phillips, Delilah Pierce, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, Georgette Seabrooke Powell, Leo Twiggs, Al Tyler, Anna Tyler, Steve Walker, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Kenneth V. Young, et al.
NEW YORK (NY). Kenkeleba House. Unbroken Circle: Exhibition of African American Artists of the 1930's and 1940's. 1986. 36 pp., 55 b&w illus., checklist of work by 56 artists (including 10 women artists). Intro. Corinne Jennings; text by David C. Driskell, and beautiful memoir by curator / artist Vincent D. Smith. Well-chosen examples of each artist's work. Includes: Charles Alston, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Robert Blackburn, William Braxton, Selma Burke, Samuel J. Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Rohan Crite, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Richard Dempsey, Reba Dickerson-Hill, Aaron Douglas, Elton Fax, Charlotte White Franklin, Meta Fuller, Herbert Gentry, Rex Goreleigh, Palmer Hayden, Humbert L. Howard, May Howard Jackson, Wilmer A. Jennings, Malvin G. Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Paul Keene, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, James Lewis, Norman Lewis, Joan Maynard, Archibald Motley, Delilah Pierce, Robert Pious, Georgette Powell, Daniel Pressley, Donald Reid, John Rhoden, Charles Sebree, Thomas Sills, Alma Thomas, Dox Thrash, Masood A. Warren, James Wells, Charles White, Walter Williams, Ed Wilson, Ellis Wilson, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff. Text includes discussion of some additional artists: Robert Duncanson, Edmonia Lewis, Henry Tanner, Valerie Maynard, James Porter. 4to, stapled wraps. First ed.
NEW YORK (NY). Metropolitan Museum of Art. African-American Artists, 1929-1945: Prints, Drawings and Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. 91 pp., 60 b&w illus., 7 color plates, checklist of 47 works, notes. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 15-July 6, 2003. The collection is discussed topically rather than in chronological order: Cultural Heritage, North, South, Religion, Labor, Recreation, War. Texts by Lisa Mintz Messinger, Lisa Gail Collins and Rachel Mustalish ("Printmaking Techniques of the WPA Printmakers.") Artists include: Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, Bob Blackburn, Elmer W. Brown, Samuel Joseph Brown, Calvin Burnett, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Rohan Crite, Joseph Delaney, Palmer Hayden, Carl G. Hill, Louise E. Jefferson, Wilmer Jennings, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Ronald Joseph, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Horace Pippin, David Ross, Charles Sallee, Albert A. Smith, William E. Smith, Raymond Steth, Dox Thrash, Bill Traylor, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff. 4to (28 cm.; 10.8 x 8.4 in.), laminated pictorial self-wraps. First ed.
NEW YORK (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem. Impressions/Expressions: Black American Graphics. October 7, 1979-January 6, 1980. 56 pp. exhib. cat., illus., brief biogs., bibliog. Substantial intro. by curator Richard Powell. Includes: Emma Amos, Casper Banjo, Cleveland Bellow, Bob Blackburn, Elmer Brown, Grafton Tyler Brown, Sam Brown, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Carole Byard, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Sr., Dan Concholar, Alonzo Davis, John Dowell, Allan Edmunds, Marion Epting, Kenneth Falana, Russell Gordon, Raymond Grist, David Hammons, Leon Hicks, Raymond Holbert, Jacqui Holmes, Margo Humphrey, Wilmer Jennings, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Winston Kennedy, Hughie Lee-Smith, Samella Lewis, Jules Lion, Percy Martin, Valerie Maynard, Lev Mills, Jay Moon, Scipio Moorhead, Norma Morgan, Nefertiti, Ademola Olugebefola, Patrick Reason, Joe Ross (presumably Joseph B. Ross, Jr.), Betye Saar, Charles Sallee, A. J. Smith, Albert A. Smith, Frank Smith, George Smith, William Smith, Raymond Steth, Lou Stovall, Sharon Sutton, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mildred Thompson; Phyllis Thompson, Dox Thrash, Ruth Waddy, Bobby Walls, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Walter H. Williams, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Stephanie Pogue, Calvin Reid. [Traveled to: Gallery of Art, Howard University, Washington, DC, February 10-March 28, 1980.] 8vo (23 cm.), wraps. Errata slip.
NEWARK (NJ). Newark Museum. Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s-40s by African-American Artists. Collection Reba and Dave Williams. December 10, 1992-February 28, 1993. 58 pp. exhib. cat., 35 illus. (8 in color), exhib. checklist of 105 prints with biogs. of all artists by Diane Cochrane, index. Excellent texts by Dougherty, Lowery S. Sims, Leslie King Hammond on Black Printmakers and the W.P.A., and Reba and Dave Williams. Includes: Charles Alston, John Biggers, Robert Blackburn, Elmer W. Brown, Samuel J. Brown, Jr., Hilda Wilkinson Brown, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Crite, Charles C. Dawson, Aaron Douglas, Carl Hill, Louise Jefferson, Wilmer Jennings, William H. Johnson, Sargent Johnson, Henry Bozeman Jones, Lawrence Arthur Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Ronald Joseph, Hughie Lee-Smith, James E. Lewis, Norman Lewis, Samella Lewis, Richard W. Lindsey, William McBride, Hayward Oubré, Georgette Seabrooke Powell, David Ross, Charles Sallee, William E. Smith, Raymond Steth, Dox Thrash, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Clarence Williams, Hale Woodruff, John Wilson. [Traveled to 17 other locations.] Oblong 4to (23 x 28 cm.; 9 x 11 in.), wraps. First ed.
OAKLAND (CA). Kaiser Center Gallery, Oakland Museum of Art. New Perspectives in Black Art. October 5-26, 1968. 24 pp.,22 b&w illus. Texts by curator Evangeline Montgomery and Paul Mills with statements by dozens of artists on the nature of black art. Exhibition of 36 artists juried by Samella Lewis, William Pajaud, et al. Includes: Harrison Branch, Marie Johnson, Eugene Grigsby, Jr., George H. Smith, Ruth Cleveland Bellow, G. Waddy, Ben Hazard, Margo Humphrey, Elvoys Hooper, Irene Clark, David P. Bradford, Arthur Carraway, Laura Williams, Ibibio Fundi, Frances Dunham Catlett, Charlotte J. Chambliss, Claude Clark, Sr., Claude Lockhart Clark, Jr., Janice Jefferson, Herbert Johnson, Marie Johnson-Calloway, Lawrence McGaugh, Barrington McLean, E.J. Montgomery, Robert Newsome, George H. Smith, William E. Smith, Carlton Taylor, Roberta Thompson, Royce Vaughn, Ruth G. Waddy, Mary Parks Washington, and Laura Williams. [Review: Miriam Dungan Cross, "Black Art Exhibit at Kaiser Center," Oakland Tribune, October, 13, 1968.] Narrow 4to (28 cm.), stapled shiny black card stock, lettered in white.
OAKLAND (CA). Thelma Harris Gallery. 8th Annual White Linen Nights. 2007. Group exhibition.
OAKLAND (CA). Thelma Harris Gallery. Minuentee: Small Works Exhibition. 2012. Group exhibition. Included: Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, Marianne Brown, Claude Clark, Bill Dallas, Alonzo Davis, Carl Davis, Jonathan Green, Eugene Grigsby, Palmer Hayden, Clementine Hunter, Dana King, Samella Lewis, Richard Mayhew, James Moore, Yvonne Muinde, Cedric Smith, William Tolliver, Charles White.
OCALA (FL). Appleton Museum, and other venues. Southern Journeys: African American Artists of the South. April, 2010. Group exhibition of 55 paintings, sculptures and works on paper that examine the work of African American artists who have chronicled the history of Southern culture in their art through memory of place, rather than their current place of work. Seemingly an offshoot of the exhibition by the same title organized by the Alexandria Museum of Art and Stella Jones gallery. Artists include: Sarah Albritton, Leroy Allen, Benny Andrews, Radcliffe Bailey, John Barnes, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Ron Bechet, John Biggers, Willie Birch, Beverly Buchanan, Claire Foster Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Sr., Jeffrey Cook, Ernest Crichlow, Alonzo Davis, Louis Delsarte, James Denmark, David Driskell, Malaika Favorite, Reginald Gammon, Gharles Gilliam, Sr., Eugene Grigsby, Frank Hayden, Randall Henry, Lester Holt, Jr., Clementine Hunter, Wadsworth Jarrell, Lawrence Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Mapo Kinnard-Payton, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Samella Lewis, Ruth Mae McCrane, William Pajaud, Martin Payton, Joseph Pearson, Alvin Roy, John T. Scott, Morris Taft Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Charles White, Lorna Williams, Michele Wood. [Traveling exhibition circulated by Exhibits USA.]
OTFINOSKI, STEVEN. African Americans in the Visual Arts. New York: Facts on File, 2003. x, 262 pp., 50 b&w photos of some artists, brief 2-page bibliog., index. Part of the A to Z of African Americans series. Lists over 170 visual artists (including 18 photographers) and 22 filmmakers with brief biographies and token bibliog. for each. An erratic selection, far less complete than the St. James Guide to Black Artists, and inexplicably leaving out over 250 artists of obvious historic importance (for ex.: Edwin A. Harleston, Grafton Tyler Brown, Charles Ethan Porter, Wadsworth Jarrell, John Outterbridge, Noah Purifoy, William Majors, Camille Billops, Whitfield Lovell, Al Loving, Ed Clark, John T. Scott, Maren Hassinger, Lorraine O'Grady, Winnie Owens-Hart, Adrienne Hoard, Oliver Jackson, Frederick Eversley, Glenn Ligon, Sam Middleton, Ed Hamilton, Pat Ward Williams, etc. and omitting a generation of well-established contemporary artists who emerged during the late 70s-90s. [Note: a newly revised edition of 2012 (ten pages longer) has not rendered it a worthy reference work on this topic.] 8vo (25 com), laminated papered boards.
PAINTER, NELL IRVIN. Creating Black Americans: African American History and its Meanings 1619 to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvi, 458 pp., 148 illus. (110 in color), 4 maps, bibliog., index. Valuable for its images. A historical and cultural narrative that stretches from Africa to hip-hop with unusual attention paid to visual work. However, Painter is a historian not an art historian and therefore deals with the art in summary fashion without discussion of its layered imagery. Artists named include: Sylvia Abernathy, Tina Allen, Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Xenobia Bailey, James Presley Ball, Edward M. Bannister, Amiri Baraka (as writer), Richmond Barthé, Jean-Michel Basquiat, C. M. Battey, Romare Bearden, Arthur P. Bedou, John T. Biggers, Camille Billops, Carroll Parrott Blue, Leslie Bolling, Chakaia Booker, Cloyd Boykin, Kay Brown, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Dana Chandler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Chris Clark, Claude Clarke, Houston Conwill, Brett Cook-Dizney, Allan Rohan Crite, Willis "Bing" Davis, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, David C. Driskell, Robert S. Duncanson, Melvin Edwards, Tom Feelings, Roland L. Freeman, Meta Warrick Fuller, Paul Goodnight, Robert Haggins, Ed Hamilton, David Hammons, Inge Hardison, Edwin A. Harleston, Isaac Hathaway, Palmer Hayden, Kyra Hicks, Freida High-Tesfagiogis, Paul Houzell, Julien Hudson, Margo Humphrey, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Wadsworth Jarrell, Joshua Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, William H. Johnson, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Jacob Lawrence, Viola Burley Leak, Charlotte Lewis, Edmonia Lewis, Samella Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Estella Conwill Majozo, Valerie Maynard, Aaron McGruder, Lev Mills, Scipio Moorhead, Archibald Motley, Jr., Howardena Pindell, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, Harriet Powers, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, JoeSam, Melvin Samuels (NOC 167), O.L. Samuels, Augusta Savage, Joyce J. Scott, Herbert Singleton, Albert A. Smith, Morgan & Marvin Smith, Vincent Smith, Nelson Stevens, Ann Tanksley, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Dox Thrash, James Vanderzee, Kara Walker, Paul Wandless, Augustus Washington, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Pat Ward Williams, Hale Woodruff, Purvis Young. 8vo (9.4 x 8.2 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
PATTERSON, LINDSAY, compiled and ed. The Negro in Music and Art. New York: Publishers Company, Inc. [International Library of Negro Life and History vol. 9], 1967. xvi, 304 pp., illus., portraits, bibliog. 4to (28 cm.), cloth, d.j. 2nd ed. 1968
PHILADELPHIA (PA). Philadelphia Museum of Art. Beauford Delaney in Context: Selections from the Collection. November 13, 2005-February 26, 2006. A fairly random exhibition including numerous African American works from the Philadelphia Museum collection which purportedly provided a "context" for the exhibition "Beauford Delaney: From New York to Paris." Curated by Michael Thomas and Emily Hage. Included: Claude Clark, Thornton Dial, William Edmondson. Glenn Ligon and John Dowell, Horace Pippin, Alma Thomas, Georgia O'Keefe's charcoal portrait of Delaney, et al.
PHILADELPHIA (PA). Pyramid Club. Eighth Annual Exhibition of Art. 1948. Checklist includes: Samuel Joseph Brown, Claude Clark, Francis Couch, Joseph Delaney. Allan Freelon, Rex Goreleigh, Humbert Howard, Henry Bozeman Jones, Paul Keene, Edward L. Loper, Sr., Beatrice Overton, Dox Thrash, Laura Wheeler Waring, and dozens more.
PHILADELPHIA (PA). Pyramid Club. First Annual Exhibition on Art. March 2-16, 1941. Group exhibition. Included: Samuel Brown, Claude Clark, Sr., Raymond Steth, Dox Thrash, et al.
PHILADELPHIA (PA). Woodmere Art Museum. In Search of Missing Masters: The Lewis Tanner Moore Collection of African American Art. September 28, 2008-February 22, 2009. 119 pp. exhib. cat., 133 color plates (most full-page) and several b&w illus., checklist of 135 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by 92 artists. Texts by Lewis Tanner Moore, Curlee Raven Holton, Margaret Rose Vendryes; brief biogs. by W. Douglas, Paschall. Includes: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Amelia Amaki, Emma Amos, James Atkins, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Cleveland Bellow, Bob Blackburn, Berrisford Boothe, James Brantley, Benjamin Britt, Moe Brooker, Samuel Joseph Brown, Barbara Bullock, Selma urke, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Charles Burwell, Donald Camp, James Camp, William S. Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Claude Clark, Irene V. Clark, Nanette Clark, Kevin Cole, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Rohan Crite, Roy Crosse, Joseph Delaney, Marita Dingus, David C. Driskell, James Dupree, Walter Edmonds, Allan Edmunds, James Edwards, Melvin Edwards, Allan Freelon, Reginald Gammon, Herbert Gentry, Sam Gilliam, Rex Goreleigh, Barkley Hendricks, Curley Holton, Humbert Howard, Edward Ellis Hughes, Bill Hutson, Leroy Johnson, Martina Joshnson-Allen, Lois Mailou Jones, Ron H. Jones, Paul Keene, Glenn F. Kellum, Columbus Knox, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Ed Loper, Al Loving, Deryl Daniel Mackie, Ulysses Marshall, Richard Mayhew, John McDaniel, Thaddeus G. Mosley, Frank Neal, George Neal, Hayward Oubre, Carlton Parker, Janet Taylor Pickett, Howardena Pindell, Charles Pridgen, Faith Ringgold, Leo Robinson, Qaaim Salik, Raymond Saunders, Charles Searles, Charles Sebree, Sterling Shaw, Louis Sloan, Raymond Steth, Phil Sumpter, Dox Thrash, Ellen Powell Tiberino, Andrew Turner, Howard Watson, Richard Watson, James Lesesne Wells, William T. Williams, Ellis Wilson, John Wilson, and Hale Woodruff. 4to, self-wraps. First ed.
RIGGS, THOMAS, ed. St. James Guide to Black Artists. Detroit: St. James Press, 1997. xxiv, 625 pp., illus. A highly selective reference work listing only approximately 400 artists of African descent worldwide (including around 300 African American artists, approximately 20% women artists.) Illus. of work or photos of many artists, brief descriptive texts by well-known scholars, with selected list of exhibitions for each, plus many artists' statements. A noticeable absence of many artists under 45, most photographers, and many women artists. Far fewer artists listed here than in Igoe, Cederholm, or other sources. Stout 4to (29 cm.), laminated yellow papered boards. First ed.
ROBERTSON, JACK. Twentieth-Century Artists on Art. An Index to Artists' Writings, Statements, and Interviews. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1985. Useful reference work; includes numerous African American artists: Ron Adams, Charles Alston, Charlotte Amevor, Benny Andrews, Dorothy Atkins, Casper Banjo, Ellen Banks, Romare Bearden, Ed Bereal, Arthur Berry, John Biggers, Betty Blayton, Gloria Bohanon, Shirley Bolton, David Bradford, Arthur Britt, Frederick Brown, Kay Brown, Winifred Brown, Vivian Browne, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Cecil Burton, Sheryle Butler, Carole Byard, Arthur Carraway, Bernie Casey, Yvonne Catchings, Mitchell Caton, Elizabeth Catlett, Dana Chandler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Claude Clark Jr., Irene Clark, Donald Coles, Robert Colescott, Dan Concholar, Eldzier Cortor, Marva Cremer, Doris Crudup, Dewey Crumpler, Emilio Cruz, Samuel Curtis, William Curtis, Alonzo Davis, Bing Davis, Dale Davis, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Brooks Dendy, Murry DePillars, Robert D'Hue, Kenneth Dickerson, Leo Dillon, Aaron Douglas, Emory Douglas, David Driskell, Eugenia Dunn, Annette Ensley, Eugene Eda, Melvin Edwards, Marion Epting, Minnie Evans, Frederick Eversley, Tom Feelings, Mikele Fletcher, Moses O. Fowowe, Miriam Francis, Ibibio Fundi, Alice Gafford, West Gale, Joseph Geran, Sam Gilliam, Robert Glover, Wilhelmina Godfrey, Rex Goreleigh, Robert H. Green, Donald O. Greene, Ron Griffin, Eugene Grigsby. Horathel Hall, Wes Hall, David Hammons, Philip Hampton, Marvin Harden, John T. Harris, William Harris, Kitty Hayden, Ben Hazard, Napoleon Jones-Henderson (as Henderson), William H. Henderson, Ernest Herbert, Leon Hicks, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Alfred Hinton, Al Hollingswoth, Earl Hooks, Raymond Howell, Margo Humphrey, Richard Hunt, Bill Hutson, Suzanne Jackson, Walter Jackson, Rosalind Jeffries, Marie Johnson, Ben Jones, Laura Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Jack Jordan, Cliff Joseph, Gwendolyn Knight, Larry Compton Kolawole, Raymond Lark, Jacob Lawrence, Flora Lewis, James E. Lewis, Norman Lewis, Samella Lewis, Tom Lloyd, Juan Logan, Willie Longshore, Ed Love, Al Loving, Philip Mason, Richard Mayhew, Valerie Maynard, Karl McIntosh, William McNeil, Yvonne Meo, Sam Middleton, Onnie Millar, Eva H. Miller, Sylvia Miller, Lev Mills, James Mitchell, Arthur Monroe, Evangeline Montgomery, Ron Moore, Norma Morgan, Jimmie Mosely, Otto Neals, Trudell Obey, Kermit Oliver, Haywood Oubré, John Outterbridge, Lorenzo Pace, William Pajaud, Denise Palm, James Parks, Angela Perkins, Howardena Pindell, Elliott Pinkney, Adrian Piper, Horace Pippin, Leslie Price, Noah Purifoy, Martin Puryear, Roscoe Reddix, Jerry Reed, Robert G. Reid, William Reid, John Rhoden, Gary Rickson, John Riddle, Faith Ringgold, Haywood Rivers, Lethia Robertson, Brenda Rogers, Charles D. Rogers, Bernard Rollins, Arthur Rose, John Russell, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, Charles Shelton, Thomas Sills, Jewel Simon, Merton Simpson, Van Slater, Alfred James Smith, Arenzo Smith, Arthur Smith, Damballah Smith, George Smith, Howard Smith. Greg Sparks, Sharon Spencer, Nelson Stevens, James Tanner, Della Taylor, Rod Taylor, Evelyn Terry, Alma Thomas, James "Son Ford" Thomas, Bob Thompson. John Torres, Elaine Towns, Curtis Tucker, Yvonne Tucker, Charlene Tull, Leo Twiggs, Alfred Tyler, Anna Tyler, Bernard Upshur, Florestee Vance, Royce Vaughn, Ruth Waddy, Larry Walker, William Walker, Bobby Walls, Carole Ward, Pecolia Warner, Mary Washington, James Watkins, Roland Welton, Amos White, Charles White, Tim Whiten, Acquaetta Williams, Chester Williams, Daniel Williams, Laura Williams, William T. Williams, Luster Willis, Fred Wilson, John Wilson, Stanley Wilson, Bernard Wright, Richard Wyatt, Bernard Young, Charles Young, Milton Young. 4to, cloth.
ROCKFORD (IL). Rockford Art Museum. An Inside View: Highlights from the Howard University Collection. February 7-April 19, 2003. Exhib. cat., illus., checklist of 90 works, paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, dating from 1839 to 1996. Text by Floyd Coleman. Artists included: William Artis, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Skunder Boghossian, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Eldzier Cortor, David Driskell, Aaron Douglas, Robert Duncanson, Meta Warrick Fuller, Sam Gilliam, Felrath Hines, Humbert Howard, Wadsworth Jarrell, Wilmer Jennings, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Wifredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Ed Love, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Faith Ringgold, Augusta Savage, Charles Searles, Albert A. Smith, Alvin Smith, William E. Smith, Nelson Stevens, Lou Stovall, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Dox Thrash, Laura Wheeler Waring, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Hale Woodruff.
SAN ANTONIO (TX). San Antonio Museum of Art. The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art. February 4-April 3, 1994. 68 pp. exhib. cat., 59 illus., 23 color plates, checklist of 124 works, bibliog. Essays by Gylbert Coker and Corinne Jennings. Artists in the exhibition: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, John W. Banks, Edward Bannister, Basquiat, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Grafton Tyler Brown, Samuel J. Brown, William Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Sr., John Coleman, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Crite, Mary R. Daniel, Alonzo Davis, Joseph Delaney, Thornton Dial, Aaron Douglas, Robert S. Duncanson, Minnie Evans, William Farrow, Rex Goreleigh, John W. Hardrick, William A. Harper, Palmer Hayden, Clementine Hunter, J. Johnson, William H. Johnson, Frank Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Samella Lewis, Lionel Lofton, Edward L. Loper, Ulysses Marshall, Sam Middleton, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Ike Morgan, Emma Lee Moss, Archibald Motley, Marion Perkins, Charles Ethan Porter, Patrick Reason, Charles Sallee, Raymond Saunders, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, William E. Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Dox Thrash, William Tolliver, Bill Traylor, James Vanderzee, Laura Wheeler Waring, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Ellis Wilson, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff, and Joseph Yoakum. [Traveled to: El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN.] 4to (28 cm.), pictorial wraps. First ed.
SAN FRANCISCO (CA). Bomani Gallery. Richard Yarde, Richard Mayhew, Claude Clark. 1993. Three-person exhibition.
SAN FRANCISCO (CA). CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts. Huckleberry Finn (in 49 days). September 28-December 11, 2010. 108 pp. exhib. cat., 39 color illus., 18 additional b&w and duotone illus. Texts by Jens Hoffmann, Maurice Berger, Mirjana Blankenship, Elyse Mallouk. Includes 30 artists. Edgar Arceneaux, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Jamal Cyrus, Emory Douglas, Ellen Gallagher, David Hammons, Clementine Hunter, Glenn Ligon, Horace Pippin, Betye Saar, Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Hank Willis Thomas, and Kara Walker. In addition, the Wattis presented the West Coast premiere of the newly restored 1920 silent film Huckleberry Finn. 8vo (8.8 x 6.9 in.), pictorial stamped cloth.
SAN FRANCISCO (CA). Emanuel Walter Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute. Other Sources: An American Essay. September 17-November 7, 1976. Bicentennial exhibition of "third world" art curated by Carlos Villa. 99 b&w illus. Texts by Paul Kagawa, A. M. Gordon, L Andrews, Raymond Mondini, Rupert Garcia, statements by T. Albright, F. Martin, T. Shere, interviews, artists' statements, poetry, etc. 76 African American, Asian-American and Chicano/Chicana artists. Black artists included: Kirk Allen, Cleveland Bellow, Claude Clark, Jr., Marva Cremer, Robert Colescott, Urania Cummings, Doyle Foreman, Allen M Gordon, Robert Gordon, Violet Fields, Michael Greene, Mike Henderson, Oliver Jackson, Marie Johnson, Alex McMath, Arthur Monroe, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Raymond Saunders, Horace Washington, Deborah J. Wilkins, Deborah Wilson, Caleb Williams. Also mentioned although not in exhibition: Dewey Crumpler and Aaron Miller. Small sq. 4to, pictorial wraps. Cover design by Wilfred Owen Brigade.
SAN FRANCISCO (CA). San Francisco African American Historical & Cultural Society. Prints & Drawings 1977. 1977. 20 pp. exhib. cat., b&w illus., biogs., checklist of work. Included: Casper Banjo, Cleveland Bellow, David Bradford, Arthur Carraway, Claude Clark, Sr., Robert Colescott, Dewey Crumpler, Mike Greene, Ray Holbert. Oliver Jackson, Marie Johnson, Margo Humphrey, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Leslie Price, Jim Reed, Carole Ward, Horace Washington, Caleb Williams. 8vo, stapled wraps.
SAN FRANCISCO (CA). San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). A Third World Painting/Sculpture Exhibition. June 8-July 28, 1974. Unpag. (12 pp.) exhib. brochure, 30 additional leaves of b&w illus., checklist. Group exhibition of work by 60 artists. Included: Claude Clark, Sr., Robert Colescott, Doyle Foreman, Joseph Geran, Jr., Russell Gordon, Mike Henderson, Robert Henry, Ray Holbert, Marie Johnson, Howard McCalebb, Alex McMath, Arthur Monroe, Joe Overstreet, Raymond Saunders, and Horace Washington. 8vo (22 cm.). Photographs of art in denim sleeve, in plastic pocket.
SANTA CLARA (CA). Triton Museum of Art. A Visual Heritage 1945-1980: Bay Area African American Artists. 1997. Exhib. cat. Text by Allan M. Gordon. Included: Claude Clark, Mildred Howard, JoeSam, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Patricia Ravarra, et al.
SANTA CRUZ (CA). Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Porter College, University of California-Santa Cruz. Rejoice! Images from Third World Artists in California. Thru March 27, 1983. Group exhibition. Included: David Bradford, Claude Clark, Sr., Doyle Foreman, Margo Humphrey, et al.
SPRADLING, MARY MACE. In Black and White: Afro-Americans in Print. Kalamazoo: Kalamazoo Public Library, 1980. 2 vols. 1089 pp. Includes: John H. Adams, Ron Adams, Alonzo Aden, Muhammad Ali, Baba Alabi Alinya, Charles Alston, Charlotte Amevor, Benny Andrews, Ralph Arnold, William Artis, Ellsworth Ausby, Jacqueline Ayer, Calvin Bailey, Jene Ballentine, Casper Banjo, Henry Bannarn, Edward Bannister, Dutreuil Barjon, Ernie Barnes, Carolyn Plaskett Barrow, Richmond Barthé, Beatrice Bassette, Ad Bates, Romare Bearden, Phoebe Beasley, Roberta Bell, Cleveland Bellow, Ed Bereal, Arthur Berry, DeVoice Berry, Cynthia Bethune, Charles Bible, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Bob Blackburn, Irving Blaney, Bessie Blount, Gloria Bohanon, Leslie Bolling, Shirley Bolton, Charles Bonner, Michael Borders, John Borican, Earl Bostic, Augustus Bowen, David Bowser, David Bradford, Edward Brandford, Brumsic Brandon, William Braxton, Arthur Britt Sr., Benjamin Britt, Sylvester Britton, Elmer Brown, Fred Brown, Kay Brown, Margery Brown, Richard L. Brown, Samuel Brown, Vivian E. Browne, Henry Brownlee, Linda Bryant, Starmanda Bullock, Juana Burke, Selma Burke, Eugene Burkes, Viola Burley, Calvin Burnett, John Burr, Margaret Burroughs, Nathaniel Bustion, Sheryle Butler, Elmer Simms Campbell, Thomas Cannon, Nick Canyon, Edward Carr, Art Carraway, Ted Carroll, Joseph S. Carter, William Carter, Catti, George Washington Carver, Yvonne Catchings, Elizabeth Catlett, Mitchell Caton, Dana Chandler, Kitty Chavis, George Clack, Claude Clark, Ed Clark, J. Henrik Clarke, Leroy Clarke, Ladybird Cleveland, Floyd Coleman, Donald Coles, Margaret Collins, Paul Collins, Sam Collins, Dan Concholar, Arthur Coppedge, Wallace X. Conway, Leonard Cooper, William A. Cooper, Art Coppedge, Eldzier Cortor, Samuel Countee, Harold Cousins, William Craft, Cleo Crawford, Marva Cremer, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Crite, Jerrolyn Crooks, Harvey Cropper, Doris Crudup, Robert Crump, Dewey Crumpler, Frank E. Cummings, William Curtis, Mary Reed Daniel, Alonzo Davis, Charles Davis, Willis "Bing" Davis, Dale Davis, Charles C. Dawson, Juette Day, Thomas Day, Roy DeCarava, Paul DeCroom, Avel DeKnight, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Richard Dempsey, Murry DePillars, Robert D'Hue, Kenneth Dickerson, Leo Dillon, Raymond Dobard, Vernon Dobard, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, Emory Douglas, Robert Douglass, Glanton Dowdell, David Driskell, Yolande Du Bois, Robert Duncanson, Eugenia Dunn, John Dunn, Adolphus Ealey, Eugene Eda, Melvin Edwards, Gaye Elliington, Annette Ensley, Marion Epting, Minnie Evans, Frederick Eversley, James Fairfax, Kenneth Falana, Allen Fannin, John Farrar, William Farrow, Elton Fax, Muriel Feelings, Tom Feelings, Frederick Flemister, Mikelle Fletcher, Curt Flood, Thomas Floyd, Doyle Foreman, Mozelle Forte (costume and fabric designer), Amos Fortune, Mrs. C.R. Foster, Inez Fourcard (as Fourchard), John Francis, Miriam Francis, Allan Freelon, Meta Warrick Fuller, Stephany Fuller, Gale Fulton-Ross, Ibibio Fundi, Alice Gafford, Otis Galbreath, West Gale, Reginald Gammon, Jim Gary, Herbert Gentry, Joseph Geran, Jimmy Gibbez, Sam Gilliam, Robert Glover, Manuel Gomez, Russell Gordon, Rex Goreleigh, Bernard Goss, Samuel Green, William Green, Donald Greene, Joseph Grey, Ron Griffin, Eugene Grigsby, Henry Gudgell, Charles Haines, Clifford Hall, Horathel Hall, Wesley Hall, David Hammons, James Hampton, Phillip Hampton, Lorraine Hansberry, Marvin Harden, Arthur Hardie, Inge Hardison, John Hardrick, Edwin Harleston, William A. Harper, Gilbert Harris, John Harris, Maren Hassinger, Isaac Hathaway, Frank Hayden, Kitty Hayden, Palmer Hayden, Vertis Hayes, Wilbur Haynie, Dion Henderson, Ernest Herbert, Leon Hicks, Hector Hill, Tony Hill, Geoffrey Holder, Al Hollingsworth, Varnette Honeywood, Earl Hooks, Humbert Howard, James Howard, Raymond Howell, Julien Hudson, Manuel Hughes, Margo Humphrey, Thomas Hunster, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Norman Hunter, Orville Hurt, Bill Hutson, Nell Ingram, Tanya Izanhour, Ambrose Jackson, Earl Jackson, May Jackson, Nigel Jackson, Suzanne Jackson, Walter Jackson, Louise Jefferson, Ted Joans, Daniel Johnson, Lester L. Johnson, Jr., Malvin Gray Johnson, Marie Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Barbara Jones, Ben Jones, Calvin Jones, Frederick D. Jones Jr., James Arlington Jones, Lawrence Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Eddie Jack Jordan, Ronald Joseph, Lemuel Joyner, Paul Keene, Elyse J. Kennart, Joseph Kersey, Gwendolyn Knight, Lawrence Compton Kolawole, Oliver LaGrone, Artis Lane, Doyle Lane, Raymond Lark, Lewis H. Latimer, Jacob Lawrence, Clarence Lawson, Bertina Lee, Joanna Lee, Peter Lee, Hughie Lee-Smith, Leon Leonard, Curtis Lewis, Edmonia Lewis, James Edward Lewis, Norman Lewis, Samella Lewis, Charles Lilly, Henri Linton, Jules Lion, Romeyn Lippman, Tom Lloyd, Jon Lockard, Juan Logan, Willie Longshore, Ed Loper, Ed Love, Al Loving, Geraldine McCullough, Lawrence McGaugh, Charles McGee, Donald McIlvaine, James McMillan, William McNeil, Lloyd McNeill, David Mann, William Marshall, Helen Mason, Philip Mason, Winifred Mason, Calvin Massey, Lester (Nathan) Mathews, William Maxwell, Richard Mayhew, Valerie Maynard, Yvonne Meo, Sam Middleton, Onnie Millar, Aaron Miller, Eva Miller, Lev Mills, P'lla Mills, Evangeline J. Montgomery, Arthur Monroe, Frank Moore, Ron Moore, Scipio Moorhead, Norma Morgan, Ken Morris, Calvin Morrison, Jimmie Mosely, Leo Moss, Lottie Moss, Archibald Motley, Hugh Mulzac, Frank Neal, George Neal, Otto Neals, Shirley Nero, Effie Newsome, Nommo, George Norman, Georg Olden, Ademola Olugebefola, Conora O'Neal (fashion designer), Cora O'Neal, Lula O'Neal, Pearl O'Neal, Ron O'Neal, Hayward Oubré, John Outterbridge, Carl Owens, Lorenzo Pace, Alvin Paige, Robert Paige, William Pajaud, Denise Palm, Norman Parish, Jules Parker, James Parks, Edgar Patience, Angela Perkins, Marion Perkins, Michael Perry, Jacqueline Peters, Douglas Phillips, Harper Phillips, Delilah Pierce, Howardena Pindell, Horace Pippin, Julie Ponceau, James Porter, Leslie Price, Ramon Price, Nelson Primus, Nancy Prophet, Noah Purifoy, Teodoro Ramos Blanco y Penita, Otis Rathel, Patrick Reason, William Reid, John Rhoden, Barbara Chase-Riboud, William Richmond, Percy Ricks, Gary Rickson, John Riddle, Gregory Ridley, Faith Ringgold, Malkia Roberts, Brenda Rogers, Charles Rogers, George Rogers, Arthur Rose, Nancy Rowland, Winfred Russell, Mahler Ryder, Betye Saar, Charles Sallee, Marion Sampler, John Sanders, Walter Sanford, Raymond Saunders, Augusta Savage, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Thomas Sills, Carroll Simms, Jewel Simon, Walter Simon, Merton Simpson, William H. Simpson, Louis Slaughter, Gwen Small, Albert A. Smith, Alvin Smith, Hughie Lee-Smith, John Henry Smith, Jacob Lawrence, John Steptoe, Nelson Stevens, Edward Stidum, Elmer C. Stoner, Lou Stovall, Henry O. Tanner, Ralph Tate, Betty Blayton Taylor, Della Taylor, Bernita Temple, Herbert Temple, Alma Thomas, Elaine Thomas, Larry Thomas, Carolyn Thompson, Lovett Thompson, Mildred Thompson, Mozelle Thompson, Robert (Bob) Thompson, Dox Thrash, Neptune Thurston, John Torres, Nat Turner, Leo Twiggs, Bernard Upshur, Royce Vaughn, Ruth Waddy, Anthony Walker, Earl Walker, Larry Walker, William Walker, Daniel Warburg, Eugene Warburg, Carole Ward, Laura Waring, Mary P. Washington, James Watkins, Lawrence Watson, Edward Webster, Allen A. Weeks, Robert Weil, James Wells, Pheoris West, Sarah West, John Weston, Delores Wharton, Amos White, Charles White, Garrett Whyte, Alfredus Williams, Chester Williams, Douglas R. Williams, Laura Williams, Matthew Williams, Morris Williams, Peter Williams, Rosetta Williams (as Rosita), Walter Williams, William T. Williams, Ed Wilson, Ellis Wilson, Fred Wilson, John Wilson, Stanley Wilson, Vincent Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Bernard Wright, Charles Young, Kenneth Young, Milton Young. [Note the 3rd edition consists of two volumes published by Gale Research in 1980, with a third supplemental volume issued in 1985.] Large stout 4tos, red cloth. 3rd revised expanded edition.
ST LOUIS (MO). St. Louis Public Library. An index to Black American artists. St. Louis: St. Louis Public Library, 1972. 50 pp. Also includes art historians such as Henri Ghent. In this database, only artists are cross-referenced. 4to (28 cm.)
SYRACUSE (NY). Syracuse University. Above/Below: Skyscrapers and Subways in New York City, 1913-1949. 2005. Group exhibition. Included: Claude Clark, James Lesesne Wells, et al.
TAHA, HALIMA. Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas. New York: Crown, 1998. xvi, 270 pp., approx. 150 color plates, brief bibliog., index, appendices of art and photo dealers, museums and other resources. Intro. by Ntozake Shange. Forewords by Dierdre Bibby and Samella Lewis. Text consists of a few sentences at best on most of the hundreds of listed artists. Numerous typos and other errors and misinformation throughout. 4to (29 cm.), laminated papered boards, d.j.
TATHAM, DAVID, ed. North American Prints, 1913-1947: an examination at century's end. Syracuse University Press, 2006. 197 pp., illus., indices. A collection of essays, eight contemporary scholars examine the rich diversity in the subject, style, and geography of printmaking from 1913-1947, a singular period of artistic creation. Three distinguished printmakers, who were active during the 1930s and 1940s, share their recollections of those decades, offering rare, first hand accounts of the political, social, and cultural elements that influenced the artists and their work. 8vo (9.2 x 6.2 in.), wraps.
THOMISON, DENNIS. The Black Artist in America: An Index to Reproductions. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1991. Includes: index to Black artists, bibliography (including doctoral dissertations and audiovisual materials.) Many of the dozens of spelling errors and incomplete names have been corrected in this entry and names of known white artists omitted from our entry, but errors may still exist in this entry, so beware: Jesse Aaron, Charles Abramson, Maria Adair, Lauren Adam, Ovid P. Adams, Ron Adams, Terry Adkins, (Jonathan) Ta Coumba T. Aiken, Jacques Akins, Lawrence E. Alexander, Tina Allen, Pauline Alley-Barnes, Charles Alston, Frank Alston, Charlotte Amevor, Emma Amos (Levine), Allie Anderson, Benny Andrews, Edmund Minor Archer, Pastor Argudin y Pedroso [as Y. Pedroso Argudin], Anna Arnold, Ralph Arnold, William Artis, Kwasi Seitu Asante [as Kwai Seitu Asantey], Steve Ashby, Rose Auld, Ellsworth Ausby, Henry Avery, Charles Axt, Roland Ayers, Annabelle Bacot, Calvin Bailey, Herman Kofi Bailey, Malcolm Bailey, Annabelle Baker, E. Loretta Ballard, Jene Ballentine, Casper Banjo, Bill Banks, Ellen Banks, John W. Banks, Henry Bannarn, Edward Bannister, Curtis R. Barnes, Ernie Barnes, James MacDonald Barnsley, Richmond Barthé, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Daniel Carter Beard, Romare Bearden, Phoebe Beasley, Falcon Beazer, Arthello Beck, Sherman Beck, Cleveland Bellow, Gwendolyn Bennett, Herbert Bennett, Ed Bereal, Arthur Berry, Devoice Berry, Ben Bey, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Willie Birch, Eloise Bishop, Robert Blackburn, Tarleton Blackwell, Lamont K. Bland, Betty Blayton, Gloria Bohanon, Hawkins Bolden, Leslie Bolling, Shirley Bolton, Higgins Bond, Erma Booker, Michael Borders, Ronald Boutte, Siras Bowens, Lynn Bowers, Frank Bowling, David Bustill Bowser, David Patterson Boyd, David Bradford, Harold Bradford, Peter Bradley, Fred Bragg, Winston Branch, Brumsic Brandon, James Brantley, William Braxton, Bruce Brice, Arthur Britt, James Britton, Sylvester Britton, Moe Brooker, Bernard Brooks, Mable Brooks, Oraston Brooks-el, David Scott Brown, Elmer Brown, Fred Brown, Frederick Brown, Grafton Brown, James Andrew Brown, Joshua Brown, Kay Brown, Marvin Brown, Richard Brown, Samuel Brown, Vivian Browne, Henry Brownlee, Beverly Buchanan, Selma Burke, Arlene Burke-Morgan, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Cecil Burton, Charles Burwell, Nathaniel Bustion, David Butler, Carole Byard, Albert Byrd, Walter Cade, Joyce Cadoo, Bernard Cameron, Simms Campbell, Frederick Campbell, Thomas Cannon (as Canon), Nicholas Canyon, John Carlis, Arthur Carraway, Albert Carter, Allen Carter, George Carter, Grant Carter, Ivy Carter, Keithen Carter, Robert Carter, William Carter, Yvonne Carter, George Washington Carver, Bernard Casey, Yvonne Catchings, Elizabeth Catlett, Frances Catlett, Mitchell Caton, Catti, Charlotte Chambless, Dana Chandler, John Chandler, Robin Chandler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Kitty Chavis, Edward Christmas, Petra Cintron, George Clack, Claude Clark Sr., Claude Lockhart Clark, Edward Clark, Irene Clark, LeRoy Clarke, Pauline Clay, Denise Cobb, Gylbert Coker, Marion Elizabeth Cole, Archie Coleman, Floyd Coleman, Donald Coles, Robert Colescott, Carolyn Collins, Paul Collins, Richard Collins, Samuel Collins, Don Concholar, Wallace Conway, Houston Conwill, William A. Cooper, Arthur Coppedge, Jean Cornwell, Eldzier Cortor, Samuel Countee, Harold Cousins, Cleo Crawford, Marva Cremer, Ernest Crichlow, Norma Criss, Allan Rohan Crite, Harvey Cropper, Geraldine Crossland, Rushie Croxton, Doris Crudup, Dewey Crumpler, Emilio Cruz, Charles Cullen (White artist), Vince Cullers, Michael Cummings, Urania Cummings, DeVon Cunningham, Samuel Curtis, William Curtis, Artis Dameron, Mary Reed Daniel, Aaron Darling, Alonzo Davis, Bing Davis, Charles Davis, Dale Davis, Rachel Davis, Theresa Davis, Ulysses Davis, Walter Lewis Davis, Charles C. Davis, William Dawson, Juette Day, Roy DeCarava, Avel DeKnight, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Nadine Delawrence, Louis Delsarte, Richard Dempsey, J. Brooks Dendy, III (as Brooks Dendy), James Denmark, Murry DePillars, Joseph DeVillis, Robert D'Hue, Kenneth Dickerson, Voris Dickerson, Charles Dickson, Frank Dillon, Leo Dillon, Robert Dilworth, James Donaldson, Jeff Donaldson, Lillian Dorsey, William Dorsey, Aaron Douglas, Emory Douglas, Calvin Douglass, Glanton Dowdell, John Dowell, Sam Doyle, David Driskell, Ulric S. Dunbar, Robert Duncanson, Eugenia Dunn, John Morris Dunn, Edward Dwight, Adolphus Ealey, Lawrence Edelin, William Edmondson, Anthony Edwards, Melvin Edwards, Eugene Eda [as Edy], John Elder, Maurice Ellison, Walter Ellison, Mae Engron, Annette Easley, Marion Epting, Melvyn Ettrick (as Melvin), Clifford Eubanks, Minnie Evans, Darrell Evers, Frederick Eversley, Cyril Fabio, James Fairfax, Kenneth Falana, Josephus Farmer, John Farrar, William Farrow, Malaika Favorite, Elton Fax, Tom Feelings, Claude Ferguson, Violet Fields, Lawrence Fisher, Thomas Flanagan, Walter Flax, Frederick Flemister, Mikelle Fletcher, Curt Flood, Batunde Folayemi, George Ford, Doyle Foreman, Leroy Foster, Walker Foster, John Francis, Richard Franklin, Ernest Frazier, Allan Freelon, Gloria Freeman, Pam Friday, John Fudge, Meta Fuller, Ibibio Fundi, Ramon Gabriel, Alice Gafford, West Gale, George Gamble, Reginald Gammon, Christine Gant, Jim Gary, Adolphus Garrett, Leroy Gaskin, Lamerol A. Gatewood, Herbert Gentry, Joseph Geran, Ezekiel Gibbs, William Giles, Sam Gilliam, Robert Glover, William Golding, Paul Goodnight, Erma Gordon, L. T. Gordon, Robert Gordon, Russell Gordon, Rex Goreleigh, Bernard Goss, Joe Grant, Oscar Graves, Todd Gray, Annabelle Green, James Green, Jonathan Green, Robert Green, Donald Greene, Michael Greene, Joseph Grey, Charles Ron Griffin, Eugene Grigsby, Raymond Grist, Michael Gude, Ethel Guest, John Hailstalk, Charles Haines, Horathel Hall, Karl Hall, Wesley Hall, Edward Hamilton, Eva Hamlin-Miller, David Hammons, James Hampton, Phillip Hampton, Marvin Harden, Inge Hardison, John Hardrick, Edwin Harleston, William Harper, Hugh Harrell, Oliver Harrington, Gilbert Harris, Hollon Harris, John Harris, Scotland J. B. Harris, Warren Harris, Bessie Harvey, Maren Hassinger, Cynthia Hawkins (as Thelma), William Hawkins, Frank Hayden, Kitty Hayden, Palmer Hayden, William Hayden, Vertis Hayes, Anthony Haynes, Wilbur Haynie, Benjamin Hazard, June Hector, Dion Henderson, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, William Henderson, Barkley Hendricks, Gregory A. Henry, Robert Henry, Ernest Herbert, James Herring, Mark Hewitt, Leon Hicks, Renalda Higgins, Hector Hill, Felrath Hines, Alfred Hinton, Tim Hinton, Adrienne Hoard, Irwin Hoffman, Raymond Holbert, Geoffrey Holder, Robin Holder, Lonnie Holley, Alvin Hollingsworth, Eddie Holmes, Varnette Honeywood, Earl J. Hooks, Ray Horner, Paul Houzell, Helena Howard, Humbert Howard, John Howard, Mildred Howard, Raymond Howell, William Howell, Calvin Hubbard, Henry Hudson, Julien Hudson, James Huff, Manuel Hughes, Margo Humphrey, Raymond Hunt, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Elliott Hunter, Arnold Hurley, Bill Hutson, Zell Ingram, Sue Irons, A. B. Jackson, Gerald Jackson, Harlan Jackson, Hiram Jackson, May Jackson, Oliver Jackson, Robert Jackson, Suzanne Jackson, Walter Jackson, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Bob James, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jasmin Joseph [as Joseph Jasmin], Archie Jefferson, Rosalind Jeffries, Noah Jemison, Barbara Fudge Jenkins, Florian Jenkins, Chester Jennings, Venola Jennings, Wilmer Jennings, Georgia Jessup, Johana, Daniel Johnson, Edith Johnson, Harvey Johnson, Herbert Johnson, Jeanne Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Marie Johnson-Calloway, Milton Derr (as Milton Johnson), Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Ben Jones, Calvin Jones, Dorcas Jones, Frank A. Jones, Frederick D. Jones, Jr. (as Frederic Jones), Henry B. Jones, Johnny Jones, Lawrence Arthur Jones, Leon Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Nathan Jones, Tonnie Jones, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Jack Jordan, Cliff Joseph, Ronald Joseph, Lemuel Joyner, Edward Judie, Michael Kabu, Arthur Kaufman, Charles Keck, Paul Keene, John Kendrick, Harriet Kennedy, Leon Kennedy, Joseph Kersey; Virginia Kiah, Henri King, James King, Gwendolyn Knight, Robert Knight, Lawrence Kolawole, Brenda Lacy, (Laura) Jean Lacy, Roy LaGrone, Artis Lane, Doyle Lane, Raymond Lark, Carolyn Lawrence, Jacob Lawrence, James Lawrence, Clarence Lawson, Louis LeBlanc, James Lee, Hughie Lee-Smith, Lizetta LeFalle-Collins, Leon Leonard, Bruce LeVert, Edmonia Lewis, Edwin E. Lewis, Flora Lewis, James E. Lewis, Norman Lewis, Roy Lewis, Samella Lewis, Elba Lightfoot, Charles Lilly [as Lily], Arturo Lindsay, Henry Linton, Jules Lion, James Little, Marcia Lloyd, Tom Lloyd, Jon Lockard, Donald Locke, Lionel Lofton, Juan Logan, Bert Long, Willie Longshore, Edward Loper, Francisco Lord, Jesse Lott, Edward Love, Nina Lovelace, Whitfield Lovell, Alvin Loving, Ramon Loy, William Luckett, John Lutz, Don McAllister, Theadius McCall, Dindga McCannon, Edward McCluney, Jesse McCowan, Sam McCrary, Geraldine McCullough, Lawrence McGaugh, Charles McGee, Donald McIlvaine, Karl McIntosh, Joseph Mack, Edward McKay, Thomas McKinney, Alexander McMath, Robert McMillon, William McNeil, Lloyd McNeill, Clarence Major, William Majors, David Mann, Ulysses Marshall, Phillip Lindsay Mason, Lester Mathews, Sharon Matthews, William (Bill) Maxwell, Gordon Mayes, Marietta Mayes, Richard Mayhew, Valerie Maynard, Victoria Meek, Leon Meeks, Yvonne Meo, Helga Meyer, Gaston Micheaux, Charles Mickens, Samuel Middleton, Onnie Millar, Aaron Miller, Algernon Miller, Don Miller, Earl Miller, Eva Hamlin Miller, Guy Miller, Julia Miller, Charles Milles, Armsted Mills, Edward Mills, Lev Mills, Priscilla Mills (P'lla), Carol Mitchell, Corinne Mitchell, Tyrone Mitchell, Arthur Monroe, Elizabeth Montgomery, Ronald Moody, Ted Moody, Frank Moore, Ron Moore, Sabra Moore, Theophilus Moore, William Moore, Leedell Moorehead, Scipio Moorhead, Clarence Morgan, Norma Morgan, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Patricia Morris, Keith Morrison, Lee Jack Morton, Jimmie Mosely, David Mosley, Lottie Moss, Archibald Motley, Hugh Mulzac, Betty Murchison, J. B. Murry, Teixera Nash, Inez Nathaniel, Frank Neal, George Neal, Jerome Neal, Robert Neal, Otto Neals, Robert Newsome, James Newton, Rochelle Nicholas, John Nichols, Isaac Nommo, Oliver Nowlin, Trudell Obey, Constance Okwumabua, Osira Olatunde, Kermit Oliver, Yaounde Olu, Ademola Olugebefola, Mary O'Neal, Haywood Oubré, Simon Outlaw, John Outterbridge, Joseph Overstreet, Carl Owens, Winnie Owens-Hart, Lorenzo Pace, William Pajaud, Denise Palm, James Pappas, Christopher Parks, James Parks, Louise Parks, Vera Parks, Oliver Parson, James Pate, Edgar Patience, John Payne, Leslie Payne, Sandra Peck, Alberto Pena, Angela Perkins, Marion Perkins, Michael Perry, Bertrand Phillips, Charles James Phillips, Harper Phillips, Ted Phillips, Delilah Pierce, Elijah Pierce, Harold Pierce, Anderson Pigatt, Stanley Pinckney, Howardena Pindell, Elliott Pinkney, Jerry Pinkney, Robert Pious, Adrian Piper, Horace Pippin, Betty Pitts, Stephanie Pogue, Naomi Polk, Charles Porter, James Porter, Georgette Powell, Judson Powell, Richard Powell, Daniel Pressley, Leslie Price, Ramon Price, Nelson Primus, Arnold Prince, E. (Evelyn?) Proctor, Nancy Prophet, Ronnie Prosser, William Pryor, Noah Purifoy, Florence Purviance, Martin Puryear, Mavis Pusey, Teodoro Ramos Blanco y Penita, Helen Ramsaran, Joseph Randolph; Thomas Range, Frank Rawlings, Jennifer Ray, Maxine Raysor, Patrick Reason, Roscoe Reddix, Junius Redwood, James Reed, Jerry Reed, Donald Reid, O. Richard Reid, Robert Reid, Leon Renfro, John Rhoden, Ben Richardson, Earle Richardson, Enid Richardson, Gary Rickson, John Riddle, Gregory Ridley, Faith Ringgold, Haywood Rivers, Arthur Roach, Malkia Roberts, Royal Robertson, Aminah Robinson, Charles Robinson, John N. Robinson, Peter L. Robinson, Brenda Rogers, Charles Rogers, Herbert Rogers, Juanita Rogers, Sultan Rogers, Bernard Rollins, Henry Rollins, Arthur Rose, Charles Ross, James Ross, Nellie Mae Rowe, Sandra Rowe, Nancy Rowland, Winfred Russsell, Mahler Ryder, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Charles Sallee, JoeSam., Marion Sampler, Bert Samples, Juan Sanchez, Eve Sandler, Walter Sanford, Floyd Sapp, Raymond Saunders, Augusta Savage, Ann Sawyer, Sydney Schenck, Vivian Schuyler Key, John Scott (Johnny) , John Tarrell Scott, Joyce Scott, William Scott, Charles Searles, Charles Sebree, Bernard Sepyo, Bennie Settles, Franklin Shands, Frank Sharpe, Christopher Shelton, Milton Sherrill, Thomas Sills, Gloria Simmons, Carroll Simms, Jewell Simon, Walter Simon, Coreen Simpson, Ken Simpson, Merton Simpson, William Simpson, Michael Singletary (as Singletry), Nathaniel Sirles, Margaret Slade (Kelley), Van Slater, Louis Sloan, Albert A. Smith, Alfred J. Smith, Alvin Smith, Arenzo Smith, Damballah Dolphus Smith, Floyd Smith, Frank Smith, George Smith, Howard Smith, John Henry Smith, Marvin Smith, Mary T. Smith, Sue Jane Smith, Vincent Smith, William Smith, Zenobia Smith, Rufus Snoddy, Sylvia Snowden, Carroll Sockwell, Ben Solowey, Edgar Sorrells, Georgia Speller, Henry Speller, Shirley Stark, David Stephens, Lewis Stephens, Walter Stephens, Erik Stephenson, Nelson Stevens, Mary Stewart, Renée Stout, Edith Strange, Thelma Streat, Richard Stroud, Dennis Stroy, Charles Suggs, Sharon Sulton, Johnnie Swearingen, Earle Sweeting, Roderick Sykes, Clarence Talley, Ann Tanksley, Henry O. Tanner, James Tanner, Ralph Tate, Carlton Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Janet Taylor Pickett, Lawrence Taylor, William (Bill) Taylor, Herbert Temple, Emerson Terry, Evelyn Terry, Freida Tesfagiorgis, Alma Thomas, Charles Thomas, James "Son Ford" Thomas, Larry Erskine Thomas, Matthew Thomas, Roy Thomas, William Thomas (a.k.a. Juba Solo), Conrad Thompson, Lovett Thompson, Mildred Thompson, Phyllis Thompson, Bob Thompson, Russ Thompson, Dox Thrash, Mose Tolliver, William Tolliver, Lloyd Toone, John Torres, Elaine Towns, Bill Traylor, Charles Tucker, Clive Tucker, Yvonne Edwards Tucker, Charlene Tull, Donald Turner, Leo Twiggs, Alfred Tyler, Anna Tyler, Barbara Tyson Mosley, Bernard Upshur, Jon Urquhart, Florestee Vance, Ernest Varner, Royce Vaughn, George Victory, Harry Vital, Ruth Waddy, Annie Walker, Charles Walker, Clinton Walker, Earl Walker, Lawrence Walker, Raymond Walker [a.k.a. Bo Walker], William Walker, Bobby Walls, Daniel Warburg, Eugene Warburg, Denise Ward-Brown, Evelyn Ware, Laura Waring, Masood Ali Warren, Horace Washington, James Washington, Mary Washington, Timothy Washington, Richard Waters, James Watkins, Curtis Watson, Howard Watson, Willard Watson, Richard Waytt, Claude Weaver, Stephanie Weaver, Clifton Webb, Derek Webster, Edward Webster, Albert Wells, James Wells, Roland Welton, Barbara Wesson, Pheoris West, Lamonte Westmoreland, Charles White, Cynthia White, Franklin White, George White, J. Philip White, Jack White (sculptor), Jack White (painter), John Whitmore, Jack Whitten, Garrett Whyte, Benjamin Wigfall, Bertie Wiggs, Deborah Wilkins, Timothy Wilkins, Billy Dee Williams, Chester Williams, Douglas Williams, Frank Williams, George Williams, Gerald Williams, Jerome Williams, Jose Williams, Laura Williams, Matthew Williams, Michael K. Williams, Pat Ward Williams, Randy Williams, Roy Lee Williams, Todd Williams, Walter Williams, William T. Williams, Yvonne Williams, Philemona Williamson, Stan Williamson, Luster Willis, A. B. Wilson, Edward Wilson, Ellis Wilson, Fred Wilson, George Wilson, Henry Wilson, John Wilson, Stanley C. Wilson, Linda Windle, Eugene Winslow, Vernon Winslow, Cedric Winters, Viola Wood, Hale Woodruff, Roosevelt Woods, Shirley Woodson, Beulah Woodard, Bernard Wright, Dmitri Wright, Estella Viola Wright, George Wright, Richard Wyatt, Frank Wyley, Richard Yarde, James Yeargans, Joseph Yoakum, Bernard Young, Charles Young, Clarence Young, Kenneth Young, Milton Young.
THOMPSON, JERRY and DUANE DETERVILLE. Black Artists in Oakland. Charleston (SC): Arcadia Publishing, 2007. 127 pp., illus., bibliog., index [including only two items on the visual arts - Samella Lewis's seminal publications of the early '70s.] The "artists" (each of whom receives an average of two sentences) encompass everything from playwrights, string quartets and jazz to African drummers and graffiti artists. A so-called "overview" the book does not provide a history or a starting point for further investigation on those artists listed in the very incomplete index. No research, no interviews with visual artists, no new information. The important Bay Area Black Artists Group (BABA] is particularly shortshrifted. Approximately 25 visual artists appear in a captioned photograph: Casper Banjo, David Bradford, Claude Clark, Sr., Claude Lockhart Clark, Bob Colescott, Melvyn Ettrick, Marie Johnson-Callaway, Arthur Monroe, Ted Pontiflet, Marlon Riggs, Raymond Saunders, Morrie Turner, Kamau Amen-Ra, Ernie Barnes, Emory Douglas, Violet Fields, James Gayles, Anne Maria Hardeman, Ben Hazzard, Mildred Howard, Woody Johnson, Marvin McMillan, JoeSam. Another 1981 photograph (taken at the opening of a Romare Bearden exhibition) includes: De Leon Harrison, Melvin Etterick, David Bradford, Arthur Monroe, Violet Fields, Jimi Evans, Ray Holbert, Mildred Howard, Romare Bearden, Woody Johnson. A few others appear in separate photos - Mike Henderson, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Leslie Stradford. Mention of Marvin H. McMillan. 8vo (24 cm.; 9.2 x 6.5 in.), wraps.
WASHINGTON (DC). American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution. African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond. April 27-September 3, 2012. 256 pp. exhib. cat., color and b&w illus. Text by Richard J. Powell, with catalogue entries by Virginia Mecklenburg, Theresa Slowik and Maricia Battle. Curated by Virginia Mecklenburg. A selection of paintings, sculpture, prints, and photographs by forty-three black artists who explored the African American experience from the Harlem Renaissance through the Civil Rights era and the decades beyond. [Traveling to: Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, September 28, 2012-January 6, 2013; Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL, February 1-April 28, 2013; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, June 1-September 2, 2013; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, February 14-May 25, 2014; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, June 28-September 21, 2014; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, October 18, 2014-January 4, 2015.] 4to (12.3 x 10.3 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
WASHINGTON (DC). Howard University Gallery of Art. Exhibition of Graphic Arts and Drawings by Negro Artists. January 5-February 29, 1947. Exhib. cat., illus. Curated and text by James V. Herring. Artists included: prints by Samuel Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Roy DeCarava, William Farrow, Allan Freelon, Harlan Jackson, Wilmer Jennings, Fred D. Jones, Lawrence Jones, James C. McMillan, Patrick Reason, Bryant Ringle, Charles Sallee, Albert Smith, Raymond Steth, Dox Thrash, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff. Drawings by Selma Burke, Frank Braxton, Eldzier Cortor, Allan Freelon, Edwin Harleston, Lois Jones, Norman Lewis, James C. McMillan, Frank Neal, James Porter, Patrick Reason, Henry O. Tanner, Annie Walker, Charles White. 8vo, wraps.
WASHINGTON (DC). Library of Congress. Seventy Five Years of Freedom: Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Proclamation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943. Mostly an annotated list of books and manuscripts on black history, however it also includes remarks on the exhibition curated by Alonzo Aden, and list of exhibitors (pp. 39-43). Included: Frank H. Alston, John Ingliss Atkinson, Henry Avery, Romare Bearden, Bob Blackburn, Samuel Brown, William S. Carter, Claude Clark, Sr., Eldzier Cortor, Samuel A. Countee, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Rohan Crite, Charles C. Davis, Selma Day, Joseph Delaney, Aaron Douglas, Elba Lightfoot DeReyes, Walter W. Ellison, John S. Glenn, Bernard Goss, Palmer Hayden, Fred Hollingsworth, Humbert Howard, Wilmer Jennings, Malvin G. Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Ronald Joseph, Joseph Kersey, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Edward Loper, John Lutz, Archibald Motley, James A. Porter, Georgette Seabrooke Powell, Angelica Pozo, Bryant Ringle, Charles Salee, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Raymond Steth, Dox Thrash, Earl Walker, James W. Washington, Jr., James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff.
WASHINGTON (DC). National Museum of American Art. Descriptive Catalogue of Painting and Sculpture in the National Museum of American Art. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1983. Of historical interest. As of October 31, 1982, the holdings included (multiple works indicated in paretheses): Edward Bannister, Ed Bereal, Claude Clark, Sr., Eldzier Cortor, Allan Rohan Crite (2), Emilio Cruz (3), Joseph Delaney, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Sam Gilliam (7), James Hampton, Palmer Hayden, Felrath Hines, Richard Hunt, Malvin Gray Johnson (2), Sargent Claude Johnson, William H. Johnson (177) Jacob Lawrence, Charles Searles, Henry O. Tanner, Alma Woodsey Thomas, (26), Bob Thompson (5), Laura Wheeler Waring (2), and Ellis Wilson. [For a fuller picture of the national holdings of African American art at this time see also National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Permanent Collection Illustrated Checklist.]
WASHINGTON (DC). National Museum of American Art. Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art. 1992. 205 pp., over 100 illus., 90 in excellent color, bibliog., list of works, checklist of 105 artists represented in National Museum of American Art. Curated and text by Regenia A. Perry. 32 artists discussed: Edward Mitchell Bannister, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Frederick J. Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, Allan Rohan Crite, Beauford Delaney, Robert S. Duncanson, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Sam Gilliam, James Hampton, Palmer Hayden, Richard Hunt, Joshua Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Frank Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Edmonia Lewis, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Keith Morrison, Marilyn Nance, James A. Porter, Augusta Savage, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Bill Traylor, Hale Woodruff, and Joseph Yoakum. Other artists mentioned as part of the collection, but not featured: Leroy Almon, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Steve Ashby, Ed Bereal, Wendell T. Brooks, Samuel Joseph Brown, Vivian E. Browne, Richard Burnside, Claude Clark, Houston Conwill, Eldzier Cortor, Emilio Cruz, William Dawson, Hilliard Dean, Roy DeCarava, Joseph Delaney, Richard Dempsey, Arthur "Pete" Dilbert, John Edward Dowell, Jr., Melvin Edwards, Frederick Eversley, Josephus Farmer, Walter Flax, Roland L. Freeman, Herbert Gentry, William Hawkins, Felrath Hines, Lonnie Holley, Margo Humphrey, Mr. Imagination, Keith Jenkins, Malvin Gray Johnson, Larry Francis Lebby, Norman Lewis, Ed Loper, Richard Mayhew, Eric Calvin McDonald, Lloyd McNeill, Robert McNeill, Inez Nathaniel-Walker, Joseph Norman, Leslie Payne, Elijah Pierce, Howardena Pindell, Michael Platt, Earle Richardson, John N. Robinson, Nellie Mae Rowe, Charles Sallee Charles Searles, Charles Sebree, Frank Smith, Edgar Sorrells-Adewale, Henry Speller, Raymond Steth, Lou Stovall, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Mildred Thompson, Dox Thrash, Mose Tolliver, Laura Wheeler Waring, James W. Washington, Jr., Edward B. Webster, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Franklin A. White, George W. White, Jr., Ellis Wilson, Richard Yarde, Kenneth Young. [Traveled to: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA.] Small 4to, cloth, dust jacket. First ed.
WASHINGTON (DC). Smithsonian Museum of American Art. African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond. April 27-September 3, 2012. 252 pp. exhib. cat., illus. Text by Richard J. Powell, Virginia Mecklenburg, Theresa Slowik. Curated by Virginia Mecklenburg. Paintings, sculpture, prints, and photographs by 43 black artists, a total of 100 works drawn entirely from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection, including new acquisitions. [Will travel to: Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, September 28, 2012-January 6, 2013; Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL, February 1-April 28, 2013; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, June 1-September 2, 2013; Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM, September 29, 2013-January 19, 2014; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, February 14-May 25, 2014; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, June 28-September 21, 2014; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, October 18, 2014-January 4, 2015.] 4to (12 x 10 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
WINSTON-SALEM (NC). Benton Convention Center. Reflections: the Afro-American artist: an exhibit of paintings, sculpture, and graphics. October 8-15, 1972. Unpag. (14 pp.) exhib. cat., illus. Group exhibition. Presented by the Winston-Salem Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. Included: Charles Alston, William E. Artis, Edward Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John T. Biggers, Ann Brewer, Francis H. Brown, Samuel J. Brown, Selma Burke, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Sr., Eldzier Cortor, Barbara Collins-Eure, James Diggs, Aaron Douglas, David Driskell, Robert S. Duncanson, Adolphus Ealey, John Farrar, Elton Fax, Frederick C. Flemister, James Everette Funches, Jefferson Grigsby, Ethel D. Guest, Edwin A. Harleston, William A. Harper, Janie R. Harrington, Palmer C. Hayden, Esther Page Hill, Earl J. Hooks, Rennick C. Hoyle, Richard Hunt, Joshua Johnson, Lemuel L. Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Robert H. Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lemuel L. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Joseph Kersey, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, Sam Middleton, Eva Hamlin Miller, Scipio Moorhead, Archibald J. Motley, Hayward Oubre, Delilah Pierce, Stephanie Pogue, James A. Porter, John Rhoden, Gregory D. Ridley, Irvin Riley, Charles D. Rogers, Arthur Rose, Augusta Savage, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Thomas Sills, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Mercedes Thompson, Leo Twiggs, Laura Wheeler Waring, Roland S. Watts, James Lesesne Wells, Glenda Wharton-Little, Charles White, Walter H. Williams, Ellis Wilson, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Alpha Worthy, Gilbert E. Young. 4to (11 x 8 in.), wraps.
Claude Clark (November 11, 1915 - April 21, 2001) was an African American painter, printmaker and art educator. Clark’s subject matter was the diaspora of African American culture, including dance scenes, street urchins, marine life, landscapes, and religious and political satire images executed primarily with a palette knife. Contents 1 Early life 2 Education 3 Painter and art educator 4 Public Collections 5 Publications 6 Group exhibitions 7 Awards 8 References 9 See also Early life Claude Clark was born on a tenant farm in Rockingham, Georgia November 11, 1915. In early August 1923, Clark’s parents left the south for a better life in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the Great Migration. Clark attended Roxborough High School[1] where he wrote poetry but also discovered a talent for painting. His Sunday School teacher encouraged him to exhibit in Sunday school class and at church.[2] Clark studied at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1935-1939) following high school graduation. He applied to and was eventually accepted to the Barnes Foundation in 1939.[1] In 1941, Claude met the daughter of an African Methodist Episcopal Church minister, Effie May Lockhart from California. They married in June 1943[1] and formed a dynamic “power” partnership in art, education and philosophy.[3] He continued his paint studies at The Barnes Foundation while teaching art in the Philadelphia Public School system during the early years of their marriage. The couple moved to Alabama and finally California while continuing their careers. Claude Clark working with Dox Thrash During the Great Depression Clark contacted the Artists Union for work through the Works Progress Administration (WPA). He worked with the WPA from 1939 – 1942. Clark joined the graphics art shop where he worked with Raymond Seth and Dox Thrash.[1] Clark was the subject of many articles and publications. He also was the author of A Black Art Perspective, a Black Teachers Guide to a Black Visual Arts Curriculum, Merritt Press 1970. As a member of the Black West Coast Arts Movement he co-developed the first African American Studies curriculum. He also mentored and supported many young emerging scholars and artists.[4] Education Claude Clark working with a palette knife. Claude Clark attended high school in Philadelphia, PA, graduating from Roxborough High School. From 1935 - 1939, Clark studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (later the University of the Arts) on full scholarship. While studying there, he came across the work of Van Gogh. Van Gogh's style and method formed the basis of Clark's approach to drawing and painting, with thick creamy texture and loosely applied paint using a palette knife.[1] In 1939 Clark applied to the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania and was accepted. Clark studied at Barnes from 1939 – 1944. The Albert Barnes collection consisted of an array of works that included African art, European Impressionism and American art. He was able to investigate the hundreds of original “old masters” and modernist works and to study first hand one of the first important collections of African art in America. While studying at Barnes in 1939, Clark found a job through the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). He also performed independent research from 1944 – 1958. Clark moved his family to Talladega, Alabama and subsequently Sacramento, California. He received a BA from Sacramento State University in 1958 and a Master of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962.[1] Painter and art educator "Guttersnipe" is an oil painting on wood panel done in 1942 by Claude Clark. It is part of the M H de Young Memorial Museum collection in San Francisco, CA Clark matured in art by recognizing his opportunity to develop without being constrained by the racism, poverty and inherent inequality of circumstance prejudice and labels bring. His work exhibited social realism, modern and abstract styles. When Clark could not afford paint, he salvaged throw away paint cans from trash bins in the back of art schools and mixed his own. Unable to afford to buy paint brushes and chemicals to clean them, he mastered use of the palette knife.[citation needed] Clark painted and exhibited from a very early age and sold his first works in his early twenties. Collectors continue to seek Clark’s works 70 years later. Clark worked at various jobs throughout the late 30’s and mid 40’s before accepting a position as an art instructor with Philadelphia Public school in 1945 – 1948. Clark became interested in working for a Black college as his interest in African and African American history developed further. He accepted a position at Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama as an Associate Professor of Art (1948 – 1955).[5] Clark painted, taught, exhibited and researched his interest further while supporting his family consisting of a wife Diama (Effie), son Claude Lockhart Clark and daughter Alice. “Freedom Morning” is a transparent watercolor done on paper in 1941 by Claude Clark. This painting was done in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is part of the . In 1955, while teaching at Talladega, Clark began feeling the financial pressures and made the decision to move his family to his wife’s native state of California to seek greater opportunity. Clark enrolled in Sacramento State University and taught art classes to other undergraduate students while simultaneously obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree. Following graduation in 1958, Clark accepted an art instruction position with Alameda County, California (1958 – 1967) and eventually secured a faculty position within the University of California system as an art instructor (Merritt College, 1968 – 1981).[1] Clark helped curate the first national African American exhibition at the Oakland Museum in 1967.[2] Clark continued to paint, research and exhibit throughout this period. Clark worked from his studio in Oakland, California following his Merritt College retirement from 1981 – 1998. He has exhibited in the United States, Africa, Caribbean, Europe and South America. He died in Oakland, California on April 21, 2001 after a long illness.[2] Public Collections This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (August 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. "Resting" is an oil painting on canvass done in 1944 by Claude Clark. It is part of the Smithsonian American Art collection in Washington, DC. National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Dayton, OH[6][not in citation given] Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, LA Apex Museum, Atlanta, GA Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA DuSable Museum, Chicago, IL Fisk University, Nashville, TN Hammonds House, Atlanta, GA Hampton University Museum [1], Hampton Roads, VA Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Talladega College, Talladega, AL Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.[7] St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO Publications Cederholm, Theresa Dickason, "Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory", Boston, MA: Trustees of the Boston Public Library, 1973. "Directory of American Scholars". New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1951. Dover, Cedric. "American Negro Art". Greenwich, CN: New York Graphic Society, 1960. Driskell, David C. "The Other Side of Color: American Art in the Collection of Camille O. And William H. Cosby Jr." Rohnert Park, CA: Pomegranate Communications, Inc. 2001 Fine, Elsa Honig. "The Afro-American Artist: A Search for Identity". New York: Holt, Rienhart and Winston, Inc.1973 and Hacker Art Books, Inc.1982. "International Directory of the Arts". Berlin SW61, Germany, 1965 and 1976 Irvine, Betty Jo, and Jane A. McCabe. "Fine Arts & The Black American". Bloomington, IN: Indiana University, Summer 1969. Ittman, John W. "Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered". Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art and Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001 Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins St James "Guide to Black Artists", Thomas Rigg, ed. Detroit: St James Press in association with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black culture, 1997 Locke, Alain. "The Negro In Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art". Washington D.C.: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1940. Myers, Carl L., rd. Black Power in the Arts. Flint, Michigan: Flint Board of Education, 1970. Patterson, Lindsay, comp and ed. "The Negro in Music and Art. International Library of Negro Life and History". New York: Publishers Company, Inc., 1967. Swartz, Walter. "Directory of Afro-American Resources". New York: R.R. Bosker, 1970 Taha, Halima "Collecting African American Art". New York City: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1998. The Art Gallery and the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland. "Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection". San Francisco: Pomegranate, 1998 Walker, Roslyn. "A Resource Guide to the Visual Arts of Afro-Americans". South Bend, Indiana: South Bend Community Corporation, 1971. Group exhibitions 2000, 20th Century African American Icons, Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1997, A Visual Heritage 1945 to 1980: Bay Area African American Artists, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA 1996, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA 1989, Black Printmakers and the WPA, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York 1988, Master Art Exhibition (NCA), Salvador-Bahia. Brazil 1986, Kenkeleba House, New York, NY 1985, Two Centuries of Black American Art, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA 1983-84, Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, CA 1982, Grand Oak Gallery. Oakland, CA 1976, Los Angeles (circuit) 1975, Philadelphia (circuit) 1968, New Perspectives in Black Art, Oakland Museum, Oakland, C A 1953, Sorbonne, Paris, France 1946, The Harmon Foundation, New York. NY 1945, The Negro Artist Comes of Age, Albany Institute of History and Art, New York. NY 1945, Brooklyn Museum. Brooklyn, New York. NY 1945, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ 1945, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA 1942-44, Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA 1942, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1941-42, American Negro Art, 19th and 20th Centuries, The Downtown Gallery, New York, NY 1939-40, World's Fair, New York, NYPicClick Insights - Claude Clark Sr African American Artist Painting 1915-2001 Framed Oil On Board PicClick Exclusive
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