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Author Sims, Lowery Stokes, author.

Title Common Wealth : art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Lowery Stokes Sims ; with contributions by Dennis Carr [and ten others].

Publication Info. Boston, Massachusetts : MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, [2015]
©2015

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  OVERSIZE 704.0396 S614C    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index.
Contents Introduction : painting yourself out of a corner / Lowery Stokes Sims -- Vessels of memory -- Interiors -- Landscape and place -- Men -- Women -- Family and community -- Street life -- Dance, music, and song -- Spirituality -- Masks and symbols -- Abstraction -- Art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Elliot Bostwick Davis -- The National Center of Afro-American Artists / Edmund Barry Gaither -- An interview with Michael Rosenfeld / Lowery Stokes Sims.
Note Includes work by artists: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, William Artis, Maria Auxiliadora da Silva, Kofi Bailey, Edward Mitchell Bannister, James Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, John Thomas Biggers, Camille Billops, Nayland Blake, Mark Bradford, Grafton Tyler Brown, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Tony Capellán, Elizabeth Catlett, Dana C. Chandler Jr., Willie Cole, Robert Colescott, Eldzier Cortor, Allan Rohan Crite, Frank E. Cummings III, Willis "Bing" Davis, Thomas Day, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Waldomiro de Deus, Aaron Douglas, Dave Drake (or Dave the Potter), Robert S. Duncanson, William Edmondson, Robert T. Freeman, Sam Gilliam, Lyle Ashton Harris, Palmer Hayden, Felrath Hines, Sedrick Huckaby, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Mary A. Jackson, Sargent Claude Johnson, William H. Johnson, Loïs Mailou Jones, Wifredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence, Paulo Pedro Leal, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Al Loving (Alvin Demar Loving Jr.), Kerry James Marshall, David McGee, Archibald John Motley Jr., Gordon Parks, Marion Perkins, Horace Pippin, Harriet Powers, Heitor dos Prazeres, Martin Puryear, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Agnaldo Manoel dos Santos, Augusta Christine Fells Savage, Joyce J. Scott, José Antonio da Silva, Walter Augustus Simon, Lorna Simpson, Arthur (Art) Smith, Vincent Smith, Therman Statom, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mickalene Thomas, Robert (Bob) Thompson, Rubem Valentim, Sérgio Vidal da Rocha, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Charles Wilbert White, Kehinde Wiley, Fred Wilson, John Woodrow Wilson, Ernest C. Withers, Hale Aspacio Woodruff, and Richard Yarde.
Summary Reader's Digest Endowed Book Fund.
Subject Museum of Fine Arts, Boston -- Catalogs.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (OCoLC)fst00533093
African American art -- 19th century -- Catalogs.
African American art -- 20th century -- Catalogs.
African American art -- 21st century -- Catalogs.
Art -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Catalogs.
African American artists -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Catalogs.
African American art -- Catalogs. -- 19th century.
African American art -- Catalogs. -- 20th century.
African American art -- Catalogs. -- 21st century.
African American art. (OCoLC)fst00799012
African American artists. (OCoLC)fst00799017
Art. (OCoLC)fst00815177
Massachusetts -- Boston. (OCoLC)fst01205012
Chronological Term 1800-2099
Genre/Form Illustrated works. (OCoLC)fst01423873
Catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01423692
Catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Added Author Carr, Dennis, author.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, issuing body.
Added Title Art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468157
0878468153
Standard No. 99961609667
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