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Author Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois, 1968-

Title Portraits of a people : picturing African Americans in the nineteenth century / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw ; contributions by Emily K. Shubert.

Publication Info. Andover, Mass. : Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy ; Seattle : In association with University of Washington Press, [2006]
©2006

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  704.942 S534P    Check Shelf
Description 183 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 28 cm.
Series Jacob Lawrence series on American artists
Jacob Lawrence series on American artists.
Note Catalog of an exhibition held at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, 14 January-26 March 2006; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, 21 April-17 July 2006 and the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California 25 August-26 November 2006.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Negro Portraits -- Signifying Enslavement and Portraying People -- "On deathless glories fix thine ardent view": Scipio Moorhead, Phillis Wheatley, and the Mythic Origins of Anglo-African Portraiture in New England -- "Moses Williams, Cutter of Profiles": Silhouettes and African American Identity in the Early Republic -- Portraits of a People.
Subject African Americans -- Portraits -- Exhibitions.
Portraits, American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
Art, American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
Added Author Shubert, Emily K.
Addison Gallery of American Art.
Delaware Art Museum.
Long Beach Museum of Art.
ISBN 0295985712 paperback alkaline paper
Standard No. 9780295985718
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