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Author McElroy, Guy C.

Title African-American artists, 1880-1987 : selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection / Guy C. McElroy, Richard J. Powell, Sharon F. Patton ; introduction by David C. Driskell.

Imprint Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle, ©1989.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  OVERSIZE 709.73 M141A    Check Shelf
Description 125 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Note from MS513 Therasea Elder papers.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 125).
Form Also issued online.
Summary "Three essays in this companion volume to a traveling exhibition trace the artistic and political forces shaping African-American art of the last century. McElroy, guest curator at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., explores the years 1880-1920; however, his dry, formalistic analyses of various works do not address what their makers might have had in common aside from race. Fortunately, Powell, program director for the Washington D.C. Project for the Arts, and Patton, chief curator of Harlem's Studio Museum, who respectively cover the periods 1920-1950 and 1950-1987, relate the pieces in the collection to one another, placing them in a socio-historical context. Color reproductions of 75 works are well integrated and commendably diverse, and include art by Elizabeth Catlett, whose subjects address societal inequities, and by Charles Alston, who in the 1930s led the influential Harlem Art Workshop and who was equally adept at figurative and abstract representation. Prints, etchings such as those of Henry O. Tanner, whose works are marked by religious themes, and the folk art of Bill Traylor, who at 85 began to draw on cardboard scraps, complement the oil paintings depicted here." -- Publishers Weekly.
Contents The foundations for change, 1880-190 / Guy C. McElroy -- From renaissance to realization, 1920-1950 / Richard J. Powell -- The search for identity, 1950-1987 / Sharon F. Patton -- Exhibition checklist and artist biographies.
Subject Evans-Tibbs Collection -- Exhibitions.
Evans-Tibbs Collection. (OCoLC)fst00590287
African American art -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
African American art -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
African American art. (OCoLC)fst00799012
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
Added Author Powell, Richard J., 1953-
Patton, Sharon F.
Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service.
Other Form: Online version: McElroy, Guy C. African-American artists, 1880-1987. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle, ©1989 (OCoLC)581399064
ISBN 0295968370
9780295968377
0295968362 (pbk.)
9780295968360 (pbk.)
Sudoc No. SI 1.2:AF 8/6
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