African American Art

with an emphasis on representational art

Articles and essays from Resource Library in chronological order:

2010

• The Chemistry of Color: Contemporary African-American Artists (3/9/10)

2009

• Deep Sea: Drawings by William O. Golding (12/10/09)
• The Mural Tradition; essay by Edmund Barry Gaither (8/5/09)
• Image and Identity: The Art of William E. Scott, John W. Hardrick, and Hale A. Woodruff; essay by Harriet G. Warkel (7/27/09)
• Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool, Paintings 1964-2007 (6/3/09)
• The African American Image in Virginia (3/11/09)
• A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund (3/5/09)
• Harlem Renaissance (3/5/09)
• Labor and Leisure: Works by African-American Artists from the Permanent Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (3/5/09)
• Confronting History: Contemporary Artists Envision the Past (2/11/09)
• African American Images and Artists from the Swope Collection (2/5/09)

2008

• Whitfield Lovell: All Things in Time; essay by Bartholomew F. Bland (10/2/08)
• Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love (7/23/08)
• Bare Witness: Photographs by Gordon Parks (5/27/08)
• The Paintings of William Edouard Scott; text by Rachel Berenson Perry (5/16/08)
• Jacob Lawrence: Three Series of Prints (2/7/08)
• "The Highwaymen" and "Highwaymen Paintings" (2/6/08)
• Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist (1/25/08)
• Street Sense: Celebrating 20 Years of The Heidelberg Project (1/16/08)

2007

• I Am: Prints by Elizabeth Catlett (11/23/07)
• Martin Puryear (11/6/07)
• Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love (11/6/07)
• Aaron Douglas, African American Modernist (8/22/07)
• African American Quilts from the Robert and Helen Cargo Collection (5/22/07)
• William H. Johnson's World on Paper (2/18/07)
• Works on Paper by African-American Artists (1/30/07)

2006

• Jacob Lawrence: Tales of Freedom (9/28/06)
• Henry Ossawa Tanner and His Influence in America (8/11/06)
• "The Founding of Chicago" by Aaron Douglas Acquired by Spencer Museum of Art (8/9/06)
• 'Visiting Mr. Dawson' A portrait of the artist-through the eyes of those who knew him well; article by John Cain (8/4/06)
• Robert Scott Duncanson Painting, "The Quarry," Is Gift to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (7/24/06)
• Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century (4/24/06)
• A Symphony of Color: The Lyrical Paintings of Joseph Holston (3/28/06)
• "Black Spirit": Works on Paper by Eldzier Cortor; essay by Matt Backer (3/22/06)
• "Black Spirit": Works on Paper by Eldzier Cortor (3/20/06)
• Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment (2/7/06)
• Successions: Prints by African American Artists from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection (2/3/06)
• Honoring Heroes in History: Illustrations from the Coretta Scott King Book Awards, 2001-2005 (2/2/06)
• Faith Ringgold (1/28/06)
• Jacob Lawrence: Three Series of Prints - Genesis, Hiroshima, and Toussaint L'Ouverture (1/13/06)

2005

• Elizabeth Catlett: In the Image of the People; essay by Melanie Herzog (12/20/05)
• Legends and Legacy Award: Elizabeth Catlett (12/20/05)
• Picturing the Banjo (12/8/05)
• Henry Ossawa Tanner and the Lure of Paris (11/21/05)
• Syncopated Rhythms: 20th-Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection (11/14/05)
• Romare Bearden: Enchanter in Time (10/13/05)
• Paul Keene: His Art and Legacy (10/13/05)
• Audubon's Dream Realized: Selections from "The Birds of America" (9/6/05)
• Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment (8/24/05)
• Circle Dance: The Art of John T. Scott; essay by Richard J. Powell (5/16/05)
• Jacob Lawrence: In Focus; article by Sean M. Ulmer (4/20/05)
• Persistent Memories: African American Art From the University of Arizona Museum of Art Collection; article by Marcin Aleturowicz (2/28/05)
• African American Art; essay by Richard Powell (2/18/05)
• A Continent without Borders: Africa's Influence on African American Artists; essay by Nnamdi Elleh (2/3/05)

2004

• The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art (10/29/04)
• Robert S. Duncanson: Small Paintings from Ohio Collections (7/16/04)
• Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series from the Phillips Collection, with article by Mark Cole (6/9/04)
• African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (4/2/04)
• African American Works on Paper from the Cochran Collection (3/15/04)
• Testimony: Vernacular Art of the African-American South (3/15/04)
• African-American Art from the MFAH Collection (2/12/04)
• Three Series of Prints by Jacob Lawrence: Three Series of Prints - Genesis, Hiroshima, and Toussaint L'Ouverture (1/22/04)

2003

• African American Works on Paper from the Wes and Missy Cochran Collection (11/10/03)
• African American Artists Celebrate Community (11/11/03)
• The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art (10/20/03)
• The Art of Romare Bearden (9/23/03, rev. 12/20/03)
• Generations (6/26/03)
• Legacy of Struggle and Triumph: Icons of An Inside View; essay by Floyd Coleman (5/29/03)
• Alfreda's World; article by Martha R. Severens (5/27/03)
• Romare Bearden: Narrations (5/20/03)

2002

• Romare Bearden: Narrations (12/12/02)
• Mint Museum of Art Receives Six Romare Bearden Paintings (9/9/02)
• Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection (7/5/02)
• Looking Forward/Looking Black (2/20/02)

2001

• A Personal Reflection on The Barkley L. Hendricks Experience - As I See It, by Floyd R. Thomas, Jr. (6/8/01)
• To Be Real, by Richard J. Powell (6/8/01)
• The Amistad Research Center / Artist Biographies, essay and biographies by Mora J. Beauchamp-Byrd (8/29/01)
• Treasures from the Amistad Collection (8/20/01)
• The Barkley L. Hendricks Experience (3/17/01)
• Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art (2/19/01)
• Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence (2/8/01)

2000

• Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of 1938-40 (10/24/00)
• Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection (1016/00)
• Romare Bearden in Black-and-White: Photomontage Projections, 1964 (8/29/00)
• The Great Migration: The Evolution of African American Art, 1790-1945 (5/19/00)
• African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks,VII (3/8/00)
• African/American: Graphic Work by Contemporary Women Artists (3/6/00)
• An Exuberant Bounty: Prints and Drawings by African Americans (3/1/00)
• African American Self-Taught Art: High Museum of Art Collection (1/18/00)
• The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art (1/4/00)
• Jacob Lawrence and Expressions of Freedom (1/2/00)

1999

• Spirits of the Cloth: Contemporary Quilts by African American Artists (11/25/99)
• Southern Gate: African American Paintings from the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (10/29/99)
• To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (9/3/99)
• Black Image and Identity: African-American Art from the Permanent Collection (8/14/99)
• Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists (6/8/99)
• The Legend of John Brown by Jacob Lawrence (6/1/99)
• Jacob Lawrence--Aesop's Fables (4/11/99)
• Re/Righting History: Counternarratives in African-American Art (3/19/99)

1998

• Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance (9/21/98)
• Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors (1/6/98)

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