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A Selection of African American Art and Artists’ Books

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Survey Graphic. Volume LIII, No. 11, March 1 1925. Harlem: Mecca of the new negro
Survey Graphic. Volume LIII, No. 11, March 1 1925. Harlem: Mecca of the new negro
1925
The Negro in art : a pictorial record of the Negro artist and of the Negro theme in art, Alain Locke American
The Negro in art : a pictorial record of the Negro artist and of the Negro theme in art
Editor Alain Locke
Publisher Associates in Negro Folk Education
1940
Ten Afro-American artists of the Nineteenth century, James A. Porter
Ten Afro-American artists of the Nineteenth century
Author James A. Porter
Publisher Howard University
1967
Exhibition of work by Negro artists, Harmon Foundation
Exhibition of work by Negro artists
Publisher Harmon Foundation
1933
Modern Negro art : with eighty-five halftone plates, James A. Porter
Modern Negro art : with eighty-five halftone plates
Author James A. Porter
Publisher Dryden Press
1943
Trenton Doyle Hancock : mind of the mound : critical mass, Trenton Doyle Hancock American
Trenton Doyle Hancock : mind of the mound : critical mass
Multiple artists/makers
2019
Conjure, Delita Martin American
Conjure
Delita Martin
2021
Laylah Ali : artist-in-residence, winter 2012 : drawings, Laylah Ali
Laylah Ali : artist-in-residence, winter 2012 : drawings
Multiple artists/makers
2012
Kara Walker : a black hole is everything a star longs to be, Kara Walker American
Kara Walker : a black hole is everything a star longs to be
Multiple artists/makers
2020
Rosie Lee Tompkins : a retrospective, Lawrence Rinder
Rosie Lee Tompkins : a retrospective
Multiple artists/makers
2020
Ming Smith, Ming Smith American
Ming Smith
Multiple artists/makers
2020
Nick Cave : greetings from Detroit, Nick Cave, Chicago
Nick Cave : greetings from Detroit
Multiple artists/makers
2015
Benny Andrews : portraits : a real person before the eyes, Benny Andrews American
Benny Andrews : portraits : a real person before the eyes
Benny Andrews
Publisher Michael Rosenfeld Gallery
2020
Black art in Houston : the Texas Southern University experience : presenting the art of Biggers, Simms and their students, John Thomas Biggers American
Black art in Houston : the Texas Southern University experience : presenting the art of Biggers, Simms and their students
Multiple artists/makers
1978
The birth and the building of the DuSable Museum, Eugene Pieter Romayn Feldman
The birth and the building of the DuSable Museum
Author Eugene Pieter Romayn Feldman
Publisher DuSable Museum of African American History
1981
Resistance, dignity, and pride : African American artists in Los Angeles, Paul Von Blum American
Resistance, dignity, and pride : African American artists in Los Angeles
Author Paul Von Blum
Publisher CAAS Publications
2004
Art in Washington and its Afro-American presence : 1940-1970, Keith Morrison Jamaican
Art in Washington and its Afro-American presence : 1940-1970
Author Keith Morrison
Publisher Washington Project for the Arts
1985
Power objects : ancient and to the future, Howard University
Power objects : ancient and to the future
Publisher Howard University
1980
A proud continuum : eight decades of art at Howard University, Carolyn Elizabeth Shuttlesworth-Davidson
A proud continuum : eight decades of art at Howard University
Editor Carolyn Elizabeth Shuttlesworth-Davidson
Publisher Howard University
2005
The personal treasures of Bernard & Shirley Kinsey, Bernard Kinsey
The personal treasures of Bernard & Shirley Kinsey
Multiple artists/makers
2006
The art of Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Archibald J. Motley, Jr. American
The art of Archibald J. Motley, Jr.
Multiple artists/makers
1991
The Negro in American art : an exhibition, University of California Los Angeles
The Negro in American art : an exhibition
Publisher University of California Los Angeles
1967
66 signs of neon, Noah Purifoy American
66 signs of neon
Noah Purifoy
Judson Powell
1966
Blacks:USA:1973 : 2 Columbus Circle, September 26 to November 15, 1973, New York Cultural Center
Blacks:USA:1973 : 2 Columbus Circle, September 26 to November 15, 1973
Publisher New York Cultural Center
1973
Black power, black art ... and the struggle continues : political imagery from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, San Francisco State University
Black power, black art ... and the struggle continues : political imagery from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s
Publisher San Francisco State University
1994
Afri-Cobra III : [exhibition] September 7 to September 30, 1973, University of Massachusetts
Afri-Cobra III : [exhibition] September 7 to September 30, 1973
Publisher University of Massachusetts
1973
Fourteen hundred cowries : and other African tales, Abayomi Fuja
Fourteen hundred cowries : and other African tales
Multiple artists/makers
1971
One-way ticket, Langston Hughes American
One-way ticket
Multiple artists/makers
1949
What shall I tell my children who are Black?, Margaret Burroughs American
What shall I tell my children who are Black?
Author Margaret Burroughs
1968
West Africa vignettes, Elton C. Fax
West Africa vignettes
Author Elton C. Fax
1963
A secretary to the spirits, Ishmael Reed American
A secretary to the spirits
Author Ishmael Reed
Illustrator Betye Saar
1978
Wisdom of the ancestors : African proverbs compiled, Ruth E. Edwards American
Wisdom of the ancestors : African proverbs compiled
Author Ruth E. Edwards
1999
Riddle ma riddle as I suppose : riddles from the Sea Islands, South Carolina, Amos Kennedy American
Riddle ma riddle as I suppose : riddles from the Sea Islands, South Carolina
Author Amos Kennedy
2002
Fearless beadwork : improvisational peyote stitch : handwriting & drawings from hell, Joyce J. Scott American
Fearless beadwork : improvisational peyote stitch : handwriting & drawings from hell
Author Joyce J. Scott
1994
Tenderness, Khari Johnson-Ricks
Tenderness
Author Khari Johnson-Ricks
2018
Bring it home, Bennington College
Bring it home
Publisher Bennington College
2021
Testament Project : Volume 03, Kris Graves
Testament Project : Volume 03
Author Kris Graves
Publisher Bryn Mawr College
2016
Studies on a fluid body, Felicita Felli Maynard American
Studies on a fluid body
Photographer Felicita Felli Maynard
2020
Wild wild wild west & haunting of the seahorse, Jonathan Lyndon Chase American
Wild wild wild west & haunting of the seahorse
Author Jonathan Lyndon Chase
2020
Nathaniel Mary Quinn : this is life, Nathaniel Mary Quinn
Nathaniel Mary Quinn : this is life
Multiple artists/makers
2018
Tsé-tsé, Yusuf Amir Hassan
Tsé-tsé
Multiple artists/makers
2019