Vanderzee, James Augustus Joseph. (Lenox, MA, 1886-Washington, DC, 1983)
Bibliography and Exhibitions
MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Barron, Evelyn (Dir.).
Uncommon Images: JAMES VANDERZEE (Video).
1978.
A documentary portrait of one of the first and foremost photographers of black American life, who set up shop in Harlem at the beginning of the century and spent the next sixty years taking pictures there, recording the public and private life of the black community. Winner of CINE Golden Eagle, 1978. [Distributed by Filmmakers Library.] VHS-NTSC: b&w; sd; 22 min.
Birt, Rodger C. and Deborah Willis-Braithwaite.
VANDERZEE Photographer 1886-1983.
New York: Abrams in assoc. with The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1993.
192 pp., 187 beautifully printed duotone illus., bibliog. Biog. essay by Rodger C. Birt. The selection of photographic subjects includes: Bill Cosby, Eubie Blake, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marcus Garvey, The New York Black Yankees, Madame C. J. Walker's Beauty Salon, Florence Mills, innumerable Harlem residents and many other images. A major reference work on the most important photographer of the Harlem Renaissance and New York art, literary and dance scene. [Freitag 12845] 4to (30 cm.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
Boston (MA). Carreiro Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art.
JAMES VAN DER ZEE's New York.
1983.
Exhib. cat., illus. List of images laid in. Oblong 4to, pictorial wraps.
Chicago (IL). Art Institute of Chicago.
The JAMES VANDERZEE Studio.
January 25-April 25, 2004.
36 pp., 22 color illus. Texts by Colin Westerbeck, Dawoud Bey, James Vanderzee. 8vo (8.5 x 9.6 in.), wraps.
De Cock, Liliane and Reginald McGhee (Eds.).
JAMES VAN DER ZEE.
Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan and Morgan, 1973.
159 pp., profusely illustrated with over 100 b&w photographs of life in Harlem. Intro. by Regenia A. Perry. 4to (27.5 x 23.5 cm.), maroon boards, stamped in silver, pictorial d.j. First ed.
Flushing (NY). Flushing Gallery.
JAMES VANDERZEE Photographs, 1908-1982.
February 2-March 18, 1990.
Solo exhibition. Organized by Donna Mussenden Van Der Zee.
Haskins, Jim.
JAMES VANDERZEE, the picture-takin' man.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1979.
256 pp., photo illus. 8vo, black cloth, d.j. First ed.
Hulick, Diana Emery.
JAMES VANDERZEE's Harlem Book of the Dead: A Study in Cultural Relationships.
1993.
In: History of Photography 17.3 (1993): 277-283. Substantial article. 4to, wraps.
Lenox (MA). Lenox Public Library.
JAMES VANDERZEE.
1970.
Solo exhibition.
McGhee, Reginald, ed.
The World of JAMES VAN DER ZEE.
New York: Grove Press, 1969.
(24),165 pp., b&w illus. Includes conversation between Vanderzee and photographer/author Reginald McGhee. Vanderzee was the photographer who more than any other documented the events and famous personalities of the Harlem Renaissance. 4to (27 cm.), cloth, pictorial d.j. First ed.
Memphis (TN). Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
Roots in Harlem: Photographs by JAMES VANDERZEE from the Collection of Regenia A. Perry.
January 8-February 19, 1989.
Solo exhibition.
Mercer, Kobena.
JAMES VANDERZEE 55.
London: Phaidon, 2003.
128 pp., 55 photographs presented chronologically, each with commentary. [Same title was subsequently issued in Phaidon box set entitled 5 Pioneers of Photography ISBN0714853666.] 8vo (15.5 x 13.6 cm.), wraps.
New York (NY). Alternative Center for the Arts.
The Legacy of JAMES VANDERZEE: A Portrait of Black Americans.
1979.
Exhib. cat., 19 sepia photographs on individual plates contained in portfolio wrapper. Preface by Geno Rodriguez; foreword by Robert H. Browning. 8vo (8.5 x 9.25 in.), wraps.
New York (NY). International Center of Photography.
JAMES VANDERZEE: Selections from the Sandor Family Collection Gift.
January 27-April 1, 2001.
Solo exhibition.
New York (NY). Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.
JAMES VANDERZEE: Harlem Guaranteed.
September 12-November 2, 2002.
64 pp. exhib. cat., 31 color illus. Intro. by Hilton Als; text by Cheryl Finley. An exhibition of thirty vintage gelatin silver prints, dating from 1907 to 1954, including studio portraits with sitters of all ages, and photographs of Harlem’s architectural landmarks, parades, funerals and social clubs. Oblong 8vo (16 x 26 cm), boards in pictorial wraps with velcro fastener, in slipcase. Edition of 2000.
New York (NY). Sharpe Gallery.
JAMES VAN DER ZEE: On and Off the Record.
1987.
12 pp. exhib. cat., 7 illus. of photos by Vanderzee. Intro. by Brooks Adams. Large 8vo, stapled wraps.
New York (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem.
Harlem Heyday: The Photography of JAMES VANDERZEE Portraits of the Harlem Community during the 1920s and 1930s.
June 20-September 1, 1982.
22 pp., 12 b&w illus. (including 1 double-page). Intro. Mary Schmidt Campbell, C. Daniel Dawson. Text by Deborah Willis-Thomas. [Review: Kay Larsen, "Varieties of Black Identity," New York Magazine, August 2, 1982:52, b&w illus.] Sq. 8vo, wraps. First ed.
Norfolk (VA). Chrysler Museum of Art.
JAMES VAN DER ZEE: Artist and Photographer.
Thru May 29, 1988.
Solo exhibition.
Perry, Regenia A., intro.
JAMES VANDERZEE: Eighteen Photographs.
Washington, DC: Graphics International, 1974.
Portfolio of 18 photographs with chronol. And introduction by Regenia A. Perry. Sixteen of the photographs were printed from the original negatives; two photographs were printed from negatives made from vintage prints for which the negatives were lost. All of the prints were made by MacArthur fellow Richard Benson under VanDerZee's supervision, and are signed and numbered in pencil on the mount. Images: 24.1 x 19.1 cm. and smaller, on mounts 38.1 x 31.6 cm. Edition of 75, plus 15 proof copies.
Philadelphia (PA). Brandywine Workshop.
Brandywine Graphic Workshop Invites You to.an Illustrated Lecture By Romare Bearden on Henry Ossawa Tanner and Participate in the Inaugural Presentation of the "James Van Der Zee Award" to be Presented to Mr. Bearden By the Famed New York Photographer.
1976.
Photo of Bearden on cover with short text on Bearden by Allan L. Edmunds. 8vo, tri-fold sheet.
Pittsburgh (PA). Manchester Craftmen's Guild.
JAMES VANDERZEE.
February, 1996.
Solo exhibition.
Poughkeepsie (NY). Vassar College Art Gallery.
JAMES VAN DER ZEE.
December, 1974.
Solo exhibition. [Vassar College Miscellany News, Volume LX, Number 12, 6 December 1974.[
GENERAL BOOKS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
ALBANY (NY). New York State Museum.
Represent: Selections from the Studio Museum in Harlem.
September 9, 2006-February 25, 2007.
Group exhibition. Included: Barkley Hendricks, Adia Millett, Demetrius Oliver, James Vanderzee, et al.
ALTSCHULER, BRUCE, ed.
Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art.
Princeton University Press, 2005.
208 pp., illus. Unfortunately discussion of a museum collecting African or African American art is ghettoized in two essays about specialized museum collections (as if no other museum professional would consider such a purchase.) Passing mention of 70+ African American artists (only 14 women), most in the essay by Lowery Stokes Sims (Director, Studio Museum in Harlem) "Collecting the Art of African Americans at the Studio Museum in Harlem: Positioning the 'New' from the Perspective of the Past." The African artists are primarily clustered in the text by Pamela McClusky (Curator of African and Oceanic Art, Seattle Art Museum) "The Unconscious Museum: Collecting Contemporary African Art without Knowing It." 8vo (9.2 x 6.1 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
ANDERSON, JERVIS.
This Was Harlem: A Cultural Portrait, 1900-1950.
New York: Ferrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982.
x, 389 (1) pp., illus. (Vanderzee photos and Aaron Douglas Crisis cover). Mentions: Charles Alston, William Artis, Henry Bannarn, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, Selma Burke, Yolande Du Bois, E. Simms Campbell, Ernest Crichlow, Aaron Douglas, Elton Fax, Vertis Hayes, Gwendolyn Knight, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Augusta Savage, Hale Woodruff, James Vanderzee. 8vo (25 cm.; 9.2 x 6.2 in.), cloth, d.j.
ANDOVER (MA). Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Exeter Academy.
The Black Photographer (1908-1970): A Survey.
February 19- April 4, 1971.
36 pp., 32 full-page illus. of work by 32 photographers. A selection from the groundbreaking exhibition which comprised 309 works, organized by Reginald McGhee. Includes: Vance Allen, Anthony Barboza, June Clark, Robert (Bob) Fletcher, Bob Greene, Leroy W. Henderson, Jr., Omar Kharem, Leroy Lucas, Reginald McGhee, Hakim Raquib, Rudolph Robinson, Beuford Smith, Theron Taylor, Jerome Tucker, James Vanderzee, Edward West, Reginald Wickham, and many photographers not on record in any other exhibition such as Charles Blackwell, Omar Bradley, Hugh Hill, Solomon Roberts, et al. Sq. 8vo (21 x 21 cm.), stapled pictorial wraps. First ed.
APPIAH, KWAME ANTHONY and HENRY LOUIS GATES, Jr., eds.
Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.
Oxford University Press, 1999; 2005.
5 Vols. 4500 pp., 1000 photographs, maps, illus. Expanded to 8 vols. No new information or in-depth discussion of the visual arts. Names of visual artists included in the accounts of each period of black history are often lumped into a one sentence list; very few have additional biographical entries. [As of 2011, far more substantial information on most of the artists is available from Wikipedia than is included in this Encyclopedia.] Includes mention of: James Presley Ball, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David A. Bailey, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Cornelius Battey, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Everald Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, Dana Chandler, Roland Charles, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Albert V. Chong, Robert H. Colescott, Allan R. Crite, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Murry Depillars, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, Robert S. Duncanson, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, the Goodridge Brothers, Rex Goreleigh, Tapfuma Gutsa, Palmer Hayden, Lyle Ashton Harris, Chester Higgins, Joshua Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Ben Jones, Seydou Keita, Lois Mailou Jones, William (Woody) Joseph, Wifredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence, Edmonia Lewis, Fern Logan, Stephen Marc, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Willie Middlebrook, Scipio Moorhead, Archibald Motley, Gordon Parks, Horace Pippin, Prentiss H. Polk, James A. Porter, Elizabeth Prophet, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Chéri Samba, Augusta Savage, Jeffrey Scales, Addison L. Scurlock, Charles Sebree, Johannes Segogela, Twins Seven- even, Coreen Simpson, LornaSimpson, Moneta Sleet, Marvin & Morgan Smith, Renée Stout, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Hank Willis Thomas, Dox Thrash, James Vanderzee, Christian Walker, the Wall of Respect, Laura Wheeler Waring, Augustus Washington, Carrie Mae Weems, Charles White, Cynthia Wiggins, Carla Williams, Pat Ward Williams, et al. The entry on African Women Artists includes an odd and out-of-date collection of names: Elizabeth Olowu, Agnes Nyanhongo, Alice Sani, Inji Efflatoun, Grace Chigumira, Theresa Musoke, Palma Sinatoa, Elsa Jacob, and Terhas Iyasu. Hopefully future editions will follow the path of the substantially expanded edition of 2005 and will alter the overall impression that black visual artists are not worth the time and attention of the editors. [Note: Now out-of-print and available only through exorbitant subscription to the Oxford African American Studies Center (OAASC) a single database incorporating multiple Oxford encyclopedias, ongoing addiitions will apparently be unavailable to individuals or to most small libraries in the U.S. or worldwide.] 4to (29 cm.; 10.9 x 8.6 in.), cloth. Seond ed.
ATLANTA (GA). Atlanta Life Insurance Co.
The Fourth Annual Atlanta Life National Art Competition and Exhibition.
January 6-February 29, 1984.
Exhib. cat., illus. Juried by Benny Andrews, Jacqueline Bontemps, and David Driskell. Included: Terry Adkins, Ellsworth Ausby, Willie Birch, Carol A. Carter, Chuck Douglas, Joyce Dumas, Michael Ellison, Charles Joyner, Lev Mills, William Moore, Sana Musasama, Floyd Newsum, John T. Scott (purchase award), Clemson Smith, Freddie Styles, James Van Vanderzee, Stanley Wilson, Joyce Wellman.
ATLANTA (GA). High Museum of Art.
Photographs by Prentice H. Polk and James Van Der Zee.
January 2-March 5, 1995.
Two-person exhibition.
ATLANTA (GA). Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA).
Artists of the Heath Gallery 1965 to 1998.
April 27-June 30, 2002.
43 pp. exhib. cat., 24 color plates. Curated by Gudmund Vigtel, John Howett, and Laura Lieberman. Featured Georgia artists included Beverly Buchanan; non-Georgia artists included: Howardena Pindell. Stapled wraps.
ATLANTA (GA). Spelman College Museum.
Undercover: Performing and Transforming Black Female Identities.
September 10-December 5, 2009.
Group exhibition. Curated by Andrea Barnwell Brownlee and Karen Comer Lowe. Included: Mequitta Ahuja, Emma Amos, Sheila Pree Bright, Nick Cave, Renée Cox, Ellen Gallagher, Myrah Green, Lyle Ashton Harris, Lauren Kelley, Marcia Kure, Deana Lawson, Kalup Linzy, Beverly McIver, Nandipha Mntambo, Zanele Muholi, Wangechi Mutu, Magdalena Odundo, Lorraine O'Grady, Gordon Parks, Jessica Ann Peavy, Etiyé Dimma Poulsen, Berni Searle, Coreen Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Renée Stout, Mickalene Thomas, Sheila Turner, Iké Udé, James Vanderzee, Pat Ward Williams.
AUSTIN (TX). Austin Museum of Art.
Ghost Stories: The Disembodied Spirit.
September 10-November 28, 2004.
Group exhibition exploration of art and culture in the late-nineteenth century and the late-twentieth century about the depiction of ghosts and the otherworldly. Included: James Vanderzee. [Organized by Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine]
BALTIMORE (MD). Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland-Baltimore County.
Framing the Exhibition: Multiple Constructions.
March-April, 2000.
Exhib. cat. Group exhibition of 37 prints from 1928 through 1997 drawn from the Library's Special Collections. Included: Cary Beth Cryor and James Vanderzee.
BJELAJAC, DAVID.
American Art: A Cultural History.
New York: Prentice-Hall, 2004.
512 pp., 400 illus. (150 in color), bibliog. of books cited and books consulted for each chapter. Brief mention of: James Presley Ball, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, Aaron Douglas, Robert S. Duncanson, David Hammons, Jacob Lawrence, Edmonia Lewis, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Gordon Parks, Betye Saar, Lorna Simpson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, James Vanderzee, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems. This book is mentioned here because it is popular enough to have been reprinted and is credited as considering "America's visual culture as an arena in which conflicting notions of class, gender, race, and regional allegiance are fought." [Back cover blurb.] Unfortunately, this claim is not fulfilled. 4to (11.3 x 8.8 in.), cloth, d.j. 2nd ed.
BLOCKSON, CHARLES, ed.
Catalogue of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, a Unit of the Temple University Libraries.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.
820 pp., a dozen photographs, excellent title, name and detailed subject indices, approximately 11,000 entries describing a variety of historical artifacts: printed books, pamphlets, addresses and speeches, art catalogues, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts, broadsides, handbills, lithographs, tape recordings, stamps, coins, maps, oil paintings, and sculpture that all relate to African, African American, and Caribbean life and history. Intro by Dorothy Porter Wesley. The strength of the collection is such that even though the focus was not on art, there are nonetheless at least 250 art and architecture-related holdings. Bibliography entries specifically on the Fine Arts (including African art): items 640-806 (pp. 35-43); photography pp. 392-3. Artists mentioned (generally as authors rather than artists) include: Benny Andrews, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Jacqueline Fonvielle Bontemps, Clarence C. Bullock, E. Simms Campbell, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Leroy P. Clarke, William A. Cooper, Allan Rohan Crite, Beauford Delaney, David Driskell, Robert Duncanson, Elton Fax, Tom Feelings, Oliver (Ollie) Harrington, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Ida Ella Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Jesse Aaron, John L. Moore, Archibald Motley, Henry O. Tanner, Carroll Simms, Samella Lewis, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, Martin Puryear, Faith Ringgold, Thomas Sills, Augusta Savage, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Richard Samuel Roberts, James Vanderzee, Ruth Waddy, Deborah Willis (Ryan), Charles White.
BOLDEN, TONYA.
Wake up our Souls: A Celebration of Black American Artists.
New York: Abrams in association with Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2004.
128 pp., photo of each artist and 1-3 color illustrations for each, notes, glossary of art terms, bibliog., suggested reading, index. Written for young adults. Includes 32 artists illustrated with art from the Smithsonian's collection: Edward Mitchell Bannister, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Robert S. Duncanson, Melvin Edwards, James Hampton, Palmer Hayden, Felrath Hines, Earlie Hudnall, Jr., William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Malvin Gray Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Winnie Owens-Hart, Gordon Parks, James Porter, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Augusta Savage, Renée Stout, Hughie Lee-Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, James VanDerZee, Hale Woodruff. 4to (27 cm.; 10 x 8 in), cloth, d.j. First ed.
BRITTON, CRYSTAL A.
African-American Art: The Long Struggle.
New York: Smithmark, 1996.
128 pp., 107 color plates (mostly full-page and double-page), notes, index. Artists include: Terry Adkins, Charles Alston, Amalia Amaki, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, William E. Artis, Radcliffe Bailey, Xenobia Bailey, James P. Ball, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, Edward Mitchell Bannister, John T. Biggers, Camille Billops, Willie Birch, Bob Blackburn, Betty Blayton, David Bustill Bowser, Grafton Tyler Brown, James Andrew Brown, Kay Brown, Vivian Browne, Beverly Buchanan, Selma Burke, Margaret Burroughs, Carole Byard, Elizabeth Catlett, Dana Chandler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Ed Clark, Robert Colescott, Houston Conwill, Eldzier Cortor, Renée Cox, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Rohan Crite, Giza Daniels-Endesha, Dave [the Potter], Thomas Day, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, Leonardo Drew, Robert S. Duncanson, William Edmondson, Melvin Edwards, Minnie Evans, William Farrow, Gilbert Fletcher, James Forman, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Michele Godwin, David Hammons, Edwin Harleston, William A. Harper, Palmer Hayden, Thomas Heath, white artist Jon Hendricks (no illus.), Robin Holder, May Howard Jackson, Wadsworth Jarrell, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Lois Mailou Jones, Cliff Joseph, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie-Lee Smith, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Juan Logan, Valerie Maynard, Dindga McCannon, Sam Middleton, Scipio Moorhead, Keith Morrison, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Sana Musasama, Marilyn Nance, Gordon Parks, Marion Perkins, Howardena Pindell, Adrian Piper, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, Harriet Powers, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Martin Puryear, Patrick Reason, Gary Rickson, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, Augusta Savage, Joyce J. Scott, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Lorna Simpson, William H. Simpson, Clarissa Sligh, Frank Smith, Vincent D. Smith, Nelson Stevens, Renée Stout, Freddie L. Styles, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Jean Toche (no illus.), Lloyd Toone, Bill Traylor, James Vanderzee, Annie E. Walker, William Walker, Laura Wheeler Waring, Carrie Mae Weems, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Grace Williams, Michael Kelly Williams, Pat Ward Williams, William T. Williams, Ellis Wilson, Fred Wilson, Hale Woodruff, et al. 4to (32 cm.), pictorial boards, d.j. First ed.
CALO, MARY ANN.
Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-1940.
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007.
xiv, 264 pp., substantial scholarly notes, bibliog., index. Chapters on Alain Locke and the Invention of "Negro Art," Institutional Contexts: Negro Art Initiatives in the Interwar Decades, Framing the African American Artist, Advances (and Retreats) on the Art Front. Discussion of Charles Alston, Richmond Barthé, Cloyd Boykin, Aaron Douglas, John T. Hailstalk, John Hardrick, Palmer Hayden, James Herring, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Ronald Joseph, Archibald Motley, James A. Porter, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Augusta Savage, William Edouard Scott, Albert A. Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, James L. Wells, Hale Woodruff. Briefest mention of another 31 artists. Important research on the Boykin School of Art and Harlem Art Workshop of 1933 and the establishment of the Harlem Community Art Center. 8vo (23 x 16 cm.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
CAMPBELL, MARY SCHMIDT.
Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America.
New York: The Studio Museum and Abrams, N.Y., 1994.
200 pp., 140 illus., 55 in color, 29 artists mentioned along with an overall focus on music, dance, literature, and general culture, chronols., bibliog., good reference bibliography, books and magazines illustrated by Aaron Douglas, index. Texts by David Levering Lewis, David C. Driskell, Deborah Willis Ryan, J. Stewart. Artists included: Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Selma Burke, Allan Rohan Crite, Roy DeCarava, Aaron Douglas, David Driskell, Meta Vaux Fuller, Palmer Hayden, Charles S. Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Edmonia Lewis, Archibald Motley, Richard B. Nugent, James A. Porter, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Augusta Savage, Charles Sebree, Marvin and Morgan Smith, Henry O. Tanner, James Vanderzee, Laura W. Waring, Charles White, Hale Woodruff. Many others mentioned very briefly in passing. [Review: Kay Larsen, "Born Again," New York Magazine, March 16, 1987:74-75, color illus.] 4to (30 cm.; 11.5 x 8.6 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
CHICAGO (IL). Art Institute of Chicago.
A Century of Collecting: African American Art in the Art Institute of Chicago.
February 15-May 18, 2003.
Group exhibition. Curated by Daniel Schulman, associate curator of modern and contemporary art. 60 artists (over half contemporary) including: Benny Andrews, Radcliffe Bailey, Richmond Barthé, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Hilda Wilkinson Brown, Margaret Burroughs, William S. Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Edward Clark, Kerry Stuart Coppin, Eldzier Cortor, Allan Rohan Crite, Charles C. Dawson, Aaron Douglas, John E. Dowell, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Melvin Edwards, Walter Ellison, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, William Harper, George Herriman, Earlie Hudnall, Jr., Richard Hunt, Joshua Johnson, Rashid Johnson, Sargent Johnson, Joseph Kersey, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Willie Middlebrook, Keith Morrison, Archibald J. Motley, Marion Perkins, Allie Pettway, Jessie T. Pettway, Robert Pious, Adrian Piper, Horace Pippin, Martin Puryear, Faith Ringgold, William Edouard Scott, Vincent Smith, Nelson Stevens, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, James Vanderzee, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Gearldine Westbrook, Charles White, Sarah Ann Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Joseph E. Yoakum.
CHICAGO (IL). Art Institute of Chicago.
African Americans in Art: Selections from the Art Institute of Chicago.
1999.
Museum studies, v. 24, no. 2, 140-272, illus. (some in color), substantial bibliog. pp. 260-272. Essays by Susan F. Rossen, Colin L. Westerbeck, Amy M. Mooney (on Archibald J. Motley, Jr.), Andrea D. Barnwell and Kirsten P. Buick, Daniel Schulman (very important text on Marion Perkins), Cherise Smith (on Simpson, Weems and Willie Robert Middlebrook). Artists include: Samuel J. Miller, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Marion Perkins, Lorna Simpson; Carrie Mae Weems, Willie Robert Middlebrook, Joshua Johnson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Joseph Delaney, Aaron Douglas, Walter Ellison, Horace Pippin, James Vanderzee, Eldzier Cortor, Hilda Wilkinson Brown, William H. Johnson, Richmond Barthé, Beauford Delaney, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Margaret Burroughs, Roy DeCarava, Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, Richard Hunt, Melvin Edwards, Vincent D. Smith; Robert Thompson, Joseph Yoakum, Alma Thomas, Romare Bearden, Adrian Piper, Kerry Coppin, Kerry James Marshall, Kara Walker. Topics include Frederick A. Douglass, definitions of African American Art, mixed media work, sculpture. 4to (26 cm.), wraps.
CHICAGO (IL). Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College.
Likeness, Expression and Character: Presence in Photographs. Portraits from the Permanent Collection.
1987.
Group exhibition. Included: James Vanderzee, Kerry Stuart Coppin. [Review: Abigail Foerstner, "Show Unveils The Many Faces Of 20th Century Portraiture," Chicago Tribune, June 19, 1987.]
CINCINNATI (OH). Taft Museum of Art.
The Great Migration: The Evolution of African American Art, 1790-1945.
June 16-October 22, 2000.
25 pp. exhib. cat., 35 illus. including cover plates (27 in color), bibliog., checklist of 49 works. Text by R. Kumasi Hampton. Many lesser-known works from Ohio and Kentucky collections, including numerous women artists. Georgia E. Beasley, Rozelle (Zell) Ingram, Vera Jackson, Mary Edmonia Lewis, Geneva Higgins McGee, James Presley Ball, Jr., Edward Bannister, Romare Bearden, Elmer W. Brown, Fred Carlo, Eldzier Cortor, Allan Rohan Crite, Joseph Delaney, Robert S. Duncanson, John Wesley Hardrick, Sargent Claude Johnson, William Henry Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Fredrick Douglas Jones, Jr., Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Gordon Parks, Marion Perkins, Elijah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Charles E. Porter, James A. Porter, Patrick Reason, Charles Sallee, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Marvin and Morgan Smith, William E. Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Dox Thrash, James VanDerZee, James Lesesne Wells, Hale Woodruff. Oblong 4to (22 x 28 cm.), stapled wraps. First ed.
COLLEGE PARK (MD). University of Maryland Art Gallery.
Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection.
1998.
192 pp., 94 color plates, 33 b&w illus., checklist of 100 works by 61 artists, biogs., bibliog. Text by Terry Gipps. Important artist's collection. Includes: Terry Adkins, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Grafton Tyler Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Sr., Robert Colescott, Eldzier Cortor, Allan Rohan Crite, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Aaron Douglas, David Driskell, Robert S. Duncanson, Melvin Edwards, Minnie Evans, Meta Warrick Fuller, Sam Gilliam, Michael D. Harris, James V. Herring, Earl J. Hooks, Margo Humphrey, Clementine Hunter, Wilmer Jennings, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Richard Mayhew, Jerome Meadows, William McNeil, Sam Middleton, Keith Morrison, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, James Phillips, Stephanie Pogue, P.H. Polk, Charles Ethan Porter, James A. Porter, Martin Puryear, Ray Saunders, Augusta Savage, Charles Sebree, Frank Smith, Vincent Smith, Gilda Snowden, Frank Stewart, Lou Stovall, Henry O. Tanner, Bill Traylor, Alma Thomas, Yvonne Edwards Tucker, James VanDerZee, Laura Wheeler Waring, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Walter Williams, William T. Williams, Ellis Wilson, Hale Woodruff. 4to (12 x 9 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
COLLEGE PARK (MD). University of Maryland Art Gallery.
Selections from the David C. Driskell Collection.
January 20-March 22, 2003.
An exhibition of work by 39 major African American artists: Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John T. Biggers, Grafton Tyler Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, Kevin E. Cole, Bob Colescott, Eldzier Cortor, Allan Rohan Crite, Roy DeCarava, Aaron Douglas, Meta Warrick Fuller, Sam Gilliam, Michael D. Harris, Earl J. Hooks, Margo Humphrey, Clementine Hunter, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Keith Morrison, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Stephanie Pogue, Martin Puryear, Augusta Savage, Frank E. Smith, Frank Stewart, Lou Stovall, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, James Vanderzee, Laura Wheeler Waring, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Walter J. Williams, William T. Williams, Hale Woodruff.
COLLINS, LISA GAIL and MARGO CRAWFORD, eds.
New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006.
402 pp., 40 illus., chapter notes, notes on contributors, index. Contributors include: Collins, Crawford, Kellie Jones, Mary Ellen Lennon, Erina Duganne, Cherise Smith, Lee Bernstein, and others. Includes: Billy (Fundi) Abernathy, Sylvia Abernathy, Muhammad Ahmad, Benny Andrews, Amiri Baraka, Camille Billops, Betty Blayton, Gloria Bohanon, Ed Brown, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Ben Caldwell, Dana Chandler, Edward Christmas, Dan Concholar, Houston Conwill, Kinshasha Conwill, Robert Crawford, Alonzo Davis, Dale Davis, Roy DeCarava, Murry Depillars, Dj. Spooky (Paul D. Miller), Jeff Donaldson, Emory Douglas, Louis Draper, David Driskell, Melvin Edwards, Albert Fennar, Reginald Gammon, Ray Gibson, Sam Gilliam, Tyree Guyton, David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, James Hinton, Richard Hunt, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Suzanne Jackson, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Samella Lewis, Tom Lloyd. Clarence Major, Edward McDowell, Dindga McCannon, Senga Nengudi, John Outterbridge, Joe Oversotree, Gordon Parks, Judson Powell, Noah Purifoy, Sr., Herbert Randall, Betye Saar, Beuford Smith, Marvin Smith, Morgan Smith, Edward Spriggs, SUN RA, Curtis Tann, Askia Touré, James Vanderzee, Ruth Waddy, Bill Walker, Timothy Washington, Charles White, Randy Williams, William T. Williams, Deborah Willis, and Hale Woodruff. The texts explore the racial and sexual politics of the era, links with other contemporaneous cultural movements, prison arts, the role of Black colleges and universities, gender politics and the rise of feminism, color fetishism, photography, and more. 8vo (26 x 18 cm.; 9.9 x 7.1 in.), cloth, d.j.
COOKS, BRIDGET R.
Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011.
240 pp., color illus., notes, index. The narrative begins in 1927 with the Chicago "Negro in Art Week" exhibition, and in the 1930s with the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition of "William Edmondson" (1937) and "Contemporary Negro Art" (1939) at the Baltimore Museum of Art; the focus, however, is on exhibitions held from the 1960s to present with chapters on "Harlem on My Mind" (1969), "Two Centuries of Black American Art" (1976); "Black Male" (1994-95); and "The Quilts of Gee's Bend" (2202). Numerous artists, but most mentioned only in passing: Cedric Adams, Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, numerous Bendolphs (Annie, Jacob, Mary Ann, Mary Lee, Louisiana) and Loretta Bennett, Ed Bereal, Donald Bernard, Nayland Blake, Gloria Bohanon, Leslie Bolling, St. Clair Bourne, Cloyd Boykin, Kay Brown, Selma Burke, Bernie Casey, Roland Charles, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Claude Clark, Linda Day Clark, Robert Colescott, Dan Concholar, Emilio Cruz, Ernest Crichlow (footnote only), Alonzo Davis, Selma Day (footnote only), Roy DeCarava, Aaron Douglas, Emory Douglas, Robert M. Douglass, Jr., David Driskell, Robert S. Duncanson, William Edmondson, Elton Fax (footnote only), Cecil L. Fergerson, Roland Freeman, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Reginald Gammon (footnote only), K.D. Ganaway, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, William A. Harper, Palmer Hayden, Vertis C. Hayes, Barkley L. Hendricks, James V. Herring, Richard Hunt, Rudy Irwin, May Howard Jackson, Suzanne Jackson, Joshua Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Gwendolyn Knight, Wifredo Lam, Artis Lane, Jacob Lawrence, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Samella Lewis, Alvin Loving (footnote only), William Majors (footnote only), Richard Mayhew, Reginald McGhee, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Richard Mayhew, Willie Middlebrook, Ron Moody, Lottie and Lucy Mooney, Flora Moore, Scipio Moorhead, Norma Morgan, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Sara Murrell (footnote only), Otto Neals (footnote only), Odili Donald Odita, Noni Olubisi, Ademola Olugebefola, John Outterbridge, Gordon Parks, six Pettways (Annie E., Arlonzia, Bertha, Clinton, Jr., Jesse T., Letisha), James Phillips, Howardena Pindell, Horace Pippin, Carl Pope, James A. Porter, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Noah Purifoy, Martin Puryear, Okoe Pyatt (footnote only), Robert Reid (footnote only), John Rhoden, John Riddle, Faith Ringgold (footnote only), Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders (footnote only), Augusta Savage, William E. Scott, Georgette Seabrook, James Sepyo (footnote only), Taiwo Shabazz (footnote only), Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Merton Simpson (footnote only), Albert Alexander Smith, Arenzo Smith, Frank Stewart, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Danny Tisdale, Melvin Van Peebles, James Vanderzee, Annie Walker, Kara Walker, Augustus Washington, Timothy Washington, Carrie Mae Weems, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Pat Ward Williams, William T. Williams, Deborah Willis, Fred Wilson, Ernest C. Withers, Beulah Ecton Woodard, Hale Woodruff, Lloyd Yearwood, Annie Mae and Nettie Pettway Young. 8vo (9 x 6 in.), wraps.
CRAWFORD, JOE, ed.
The Black Photographers Annual 1973.
1973.
Over 110 full-page b&w illus. Foreword by Toni Morrison; intro. by Clayton Riley. Contains work by 49 African American U.S. photographers including Vance Allen, Bert Andrews, Anthony Barboza, Ken Beckles, Hugh Bell, Adger Cowans, Daniel Dawson, Roy DeCarava, Amartey Dente, Mel Dixon, Louis Draper, Clarence E. Eastmond, Albert Fennar, Mikki Ferrill, Bob Fletcher, Ray Francis, Rennie George, Ray Gibson, Leisant Giroux, Dorothy Gloster, Hugh Grannum, Leroy Henderson, Bill Hilton, Bill Jackson, Jim McDonald, James Mannas, Jr., K. A. Morais, Dexter Oliver, John Pinderhughes, Herbert Randall, Cornelius Reed, Morris Rogers, Lloyd E. Saunders, Moneta Sleet, Jr., Beuford Smith, Ming Smith, Chuck Stewart, Frank Stewart, Theron Taylor, Elaine Tomlin, Roger Tucker, Donald R. Valentine, James Van DerZee. Shawn Walker, Ernest Werts, Edward West, Reginald Wickham, Daniel S. Williams, Ted Williams. Foreword by Toni Morrison; intro. by Clayton Riley. Essential reference. Small 4to, stiff wraps. First ed.
CRAWFORD, JOE, ed.
The Black Photographers Annual Vol. 2 (1974).
1974.
106 pp., b&w illus. Contains work by 51 African American photographers from the U.S., England and Canada, including: Anthony Barboza, St. Clair Bourne, Ronnie Brathwaite, Bonnie Brissett, Vandell Cobb, Jim Collier, Bob Crawford, Joe Crawford, Cary Beth Cryor, Clarence Davis, Roy DeCarava, Albert Fennar, Mikki Ferrill, Roland L. Freeman, Kenley A. Gardner, Ronald K. Gray, Todd Gray, Al Green, George Hallett, Michael D. Harris, Chester Higgins, Jr., Reggie L. Jackson, Earl James, Omar Kharem, Jimmie Mannas, George Martin, Mickey Mathis, John Clark Mayden, Dennie Morris, Girard Mouton III, Jeanne Moutoussamy, Ozier Muhammad, P.H. Polk, George L. Robinson, Sa Rudolph, Cyril Ryan, Robert Sengstacke, Ed Sherman, Ron Simmons, Beuford Smith, Jamyl Smith, Ming Smith, Chuck Stewart, Frank Stewart, Willard Taylor, Jerome Tucker, James VanDerZee, Eric G. Vann, Shawn Walker, Lewis Watts, Ted Williams. Interview with P.H. Polk. Small 4to, stiff wraps.
CRAWFORD, JOE, ed.
The Black Photographers Annual Vol. 3 (1976).
1976.
Foreword by Gordon Parks; intro. James Baldwin. Includes: Anthony Barboza, Arza Barnett, Carroll Parrott Blue, John Braithwaite, Ovie Carter, William J. Cottman, Adger Cowans, Bob Crawford, Roy DeCarava, Albert Fennar, Hugh Grannum, Ronald K. Gray, N. Keith Hale, Lou Jones, Jeff Lawson, Matthew Lewis, Mickey Mathis, John Clark Mayden, Reginald McGhee, Marilyn Nance, Larry Neilson, P. H. Polk, Eli Reed, George L. Robinson, Addison N. Scurlock, Moneta Sleet, Jr., Beuford Smith, Jamyl Smith, Ming Smith, Gerald Straw, Theron Taylor, Donald Thomas, James VanDerZee, Robert Van Lierop, Eric G. Vann, Shawn Walker, Lewis Watts, Judith C. White, Shedrich Williams, Daniel S. Williams. [Also exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem.] Small 4to, wraps.
CRAWFORD, JOE, ed.
The Black Photographers Annual Vol. 4 (1980).
Brooklyn: Another View, 1980.
104 pp., 79 full-page b&w illus. Intro. by John A. Williams, essays on Parks and Saunders, interview with James Vanderzee. Includes: Jules Allen, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Anthony Barboza, Ronald Barboza, Dawoud Bey, Carroll Parrott Blue, Adger W. Cowans, Cary Beth Cryor, Louis Draper, Sharon C. Farmer, Roland Freeman, Keith Hale, Robert Houston, Marilyn Nance, Gordon Parks, Jacqueline LaVetta Patten, Paul Phillips, Richard Saunders, Moneta Sleet, Beuford Smith, Hamilton S. Smith, Ming Smith, Frank Smith, Frank Stewart, Gerald Straw, James Vanderzee, Mel Wright. 4to, printed papered boards. First ed.
DAVIES, CAROL BOYCE, ed.
Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences and Culture.
ABC-CLIO, 2008.
3 vols. 1110 pp. Marked by a more than usual editorail indifference to the visual arts, entries of erratic quality and less than desirable levels of research or scholarship. Deborah Willis is alotted a bare handful of pages to cover the entirety of African American photography. The essay on African Diaspora Art was allotted 17 pages to cover a period of 35,000 years and makes a courageous attempt to do so. It is not supported by any entries on individual artists, and many of the artists mentioned are not in the index. The entry is also plagued with inexcusable misspellings of numerous artists' names. The essay on Diaspora photography is also beset by the requirement of inappropriate brevity; the author desperately spends most of the allotted space listing the names of a fairly subjective selection of photographers, some with birth dates, others not. Clyde Taylor packs his 2 1/2 page space allotment to cover Diaspora Film with as many names as possible and, understandably, still can find no room for the Black Audio Film Collective or other such experimental filmmakers, Other essays are depressingly vacuous - the essay on the Black Arts Movement, allotted 2 pages, spends only 31 lines on vague remarks about the movement which the reader is led to think is attributable to events that took place in the Nile Valley thousands of years before. What can you say about a book that devotes more space to rap and hip-hop than to Barbados. Not a book worth consulting? 4to (10.3 x 7.3 in.), cloth.
DENVER (CO). Colorado Photographic Arts Center.
James Vanderzee / Gordon Parks.
June 25-July 31, 1979.
Two-person exhibition.
DOSS, ERIKA.
Twentieth-Century American Art.
Oxford University Press, 2002.
288 pp., 151 illus. (including 91 in color). Although it includes a chapter on "Feminist art and Black art," this by no means summarizes the level of inclusion of black artists at every point throughout the text. There are many glaring omissions (John Biggers, Mildred Howard, Lois Mailou Jones, Martin Puryear, Bob Thompson, etc.) and some odd summary comments (for example, Norman Lewis's work is described as "improvisatory environments"), but it's hard to quibble with the first survey of American art to give more than token acknowledgement to the work of African American artists. Over fifty artists and 17 illustrations are included: Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Amiri Baraka, Jean-Michel Basquiat (illus.), Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Dana Chandler, Michael Ray Charles (illus.), Barbara Chase-Riboud, Robert Colescott (illus.), Thornton Dial (illus.), Aaron Douglas, Emory Douglas, Melvin Edwards (illus.), Sam Gilliam, Coco Fusco (illus.), David Hammons (illus.), Palmer Hayden, Lonnie Holley, Cliff Joseph, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson (illus.), William H. Johnson, Cliff Joseph, Byron Kim, K.O.S., Jacob Lawrence (illus.), Norman Lewis (illus.), Alvin Loving, Kerry James Marshall, Archibald J. Motley (illus.), Chris Ofili, Lorraine O'Grady, Joe Overstreet, Gordon Parks, Adrian Piper, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Gary Rickson, Faith Ringgold (illus.), Alison Saar (illus.), Betye Saar (illus.), Augusta Savage, Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Alma Thomas, Iké Udé, James Vanderzee, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems (illus.), Charles White, Pat Ward Williams (illus.), Fred Wilson (illus.), Hale Woodruff. Karamu House, the Black Arts Movement and Spiral are mentioned in passing. 8vo (9.2 x 6.5 in..), wraps.
DRISKELL, DAVID C.
Two Centuries of Black American Art.
Los Angeles: Museum of Art, 1976.
221 pp. exhib. cat., 205 illus., 32 in color, bibliog., index. Groundbreaking survey exhibition of African American art. Texts by Driskell; catalogue notes by Leonard Simon. Includes Dave the Potter, Charles H. Alston, William E. Artis, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Grafton Tyler Brown, David Butler, Selma Burke, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Eldzier Cortor, Allan Rohan Crite, Thomas Day, Joseph Delaney, Aaron Douglas, Robert S. Duncanson, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Edwin A. Harleston, Palmer Hayden, Felrath Hines, Earl J. Hooks, Julien Hudson, Clementine Hunter, Wilmer Jennings, James Butler Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Richard Mayhew, Sam Middleton, Leo Moss, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Marion Perkins, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, Patrick Reason, John Rhoden, Gregory Ridley, Jr., William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Henry Ossawa Tanner, William (Bill) Taylor, Alma Thomas, Dox Thrash, Laura Wheeler Waring, Edward Webster, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Walter Williams, Ed Wilson, Ellis Wilson, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff. Additional artists mentioned in the text: James Allen, Leslie Bolling, John Kane (?), Jules Lion, James Vanderzee, many more. [Traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX; and the Brooklyn Museum, NY.] 4to, wraps. First ed.
DUBIN, STEVEN C.
Displays of Power: Controversy in the American Museum from the Enola Gay to Sensation.
New York: NYU Press, 2001.
list of interviews, notes, index. See particularly: Chapter 2 "Crossing 125th Street: Harlem on My Mind Revisited" (considerable information on Benny Andrews and the formation of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition; Afterword "When Elephants Fight: How 'Sensation' Became Sensational" [discussion of the controversy surrounding the display of Chris Ofili's Black Madonna.] Also includes brief mention of curators Henri Ghent, Thelma Golden, Lowery Sims.
DURHAM (NC). Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University.
Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection.
August 11, 2011-January 8, 2012.
Group exhibition of 100+ original photographic portraits of people of color by 60 global artists. [Not the same as the exhibition by this title at MOCAD in 2008 which was an all-black photo show.] Included: Artists in the exhibition: Henry Clay Anderson, James Barnor, Dawoud Bey, Deanna Bowen, Vanley Burke, Clement Cooper, William Cordova, Calvin Dondo, Rotimi Fani-Kayodé, Tony Gleaton, Joy Gregory, white South African artist Pieter Hugo, Ayana Vellissia Jackson, Rashid Johnson, Seydou Keïta, Deana Lawson, Christina Leslie, Oumar Ly, Sabelo Mlangeni, Megan Morgan, Dennis Morris, Zanele Muholi, J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, Horace Ové, Dawit L. Petros, Charlie Phillips, Athi-Patra Ruga, Wayne Salmon, Jamel Shabazz, Malick Sidibé, Xaviera Simmons, Mickalene Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas, James VanDerZee, Cecil Norman Ward, Carrie Mae Weems, and approx. two dozen white artists.
ESTELL, KENNETH.
African America: Portrait of a People.
Detroit: Visible Ink, 1994.
Section on Fine and Applied Arts pp. 593-655 mentions a sizeable number of artists (with many misspellings): Scipio Moorhead, Eugene Warburg, Bill Day [presumably Thomas Day], Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, Henry Bannarn, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé (photo), Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Robert Blackburn, curator Horace Brockington, Elmer Brown, Eugene Brown, Kay Brown, Linda Bryant, Selma Burke, Margaret Burroughs, E. Simms Campbell, Elizabeth Catlett, Cathy Chance, Dana Chandler, Gylbert Coker, Robert Colescott, Houston Conwill, Michael Cummings, Ernest Crichlow, Emilio Cruz, Roy DeCarava (with photo), Beauford Delaney, Aaron Douglas, David Driskell, Robert Duncanson, William Edmondson, Elton Fax, (with photo), Meta Warrick Fuller, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, Philip Hampton, Florence Harding (as Harney), Palmer Hayden, James V. Herring, George Hulsinger, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Zell Ingram, Venola Jennings, Larry Johnson, Lester L. Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Ben Jones, Emeline King, Jacob Lawrence (with photo); Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Samella Lewis, Ionis Bracy Martin, Cheryl McClenny, Geraldine McCullough, Evangeline J. Montgomery, Jimmy Mosely, Juanita Moulon, Archibald Motley (with photo), Otto Neals, Senga Nengudi, Ademola Olugebefola, Hayward Oubré, John Outterbridge, Gordon Parks, Marion Perkins, Delilah Pierce, Howardena Pindell, Jerry Pinkney, Horace Pippin, James Porter, Florence Purviance, Martin Puryear, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Charles Sallee, Augusta Savage, William E. Scott, Charles Searles, Lorna Simpson, Willi Smith (with photo), William E. Smith, Edward Spriggs, F. [Doc] Spellmon, Nelson Stevens, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Jean Taylor, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Dox Thrash, James VanDerZee, Laura Waring, Faith Weaver, Edward T. P. Welburn, Charles White, Randy Williams, William T. Williams (with photo), John Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Dolores Wright, Richard Yarde, and George Washington Carver. Also mentions fashion designers Stephen Burrows (photo), Gordon Henderson, Willi Smith. 4to, cloth.
FAYETTEVILLE (NC). Walton Arts Center.
Images of America, African American Voices: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Walker.
January 9-March 27, 2004.
125 pp., 83 color plates, 1 b&w illus., plus color and b&w text photos, checklist of 64 works in all media, endnotes, bibliog. Text by Michael D. Harris. A very substantial collection. Artists include: Ron Adams, Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Radcliffe Bailey, Romare Bearden, Phoebe Beasley, Frank Bowling, Calvin Burnett, Nanette Carter, William S. Carter, Ed Clark, Kevin Cole, Robert Colescott, Tarrance D. Corbin, Allan Rohan Crite, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Louis Delsarte, David Driskell, Edward J. Dwight, Michael Ellison, Herbert Gentry, Sam Gilliam, Luther Hampton, Margo Humphrey, Richard Hunt, Bill Hutson, Lois Mailou Jones, Gwendolyn Knight, Jacob Lawrence, Henri Linton, Juan Logan, Juan Logan, Whitfield Lovell, Alvin D. Loving, Clarence Morgan, Reginald McGhee, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, James Phillips, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Ray Saunders, John T. Scott, Charles Searles, Charles Sebree, A. J. Smith, Cedric Smith, Frank E. Smith, John H. Smith, Bill Taylor, Mildred J. Thompson, Dudley Vaccianna, James Vanderzee, Larry Walker, Joyce Wellman, William T. Williams. [Traveled to Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA, July 23-September 26, 2004; Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, June 11-September 17, 2005; Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH, September 15-November 11, 2006; and other venues.] Oblong 4to, pictorial wraps. First ed.
FLINT (MI). Flint Institute of the Arts and Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit.
Point of View: African American Art from the Elliot and Kimberly Perry Collection.
January 26-April 13, 2014.
Exhib. cat., illus. Text by Jacqueline Francis. Two-venue group exhibition of more than 40 African American artists and three artists of the African Diaspora. Includes painting, photography, collage, sculpture, prints and video. Older works from the early part of the Perry Collection will be on view in Detroit at the same time that the contemporary works will be shown at the FIA. Artists include: Nina Chanel Abney, Mequitta Ahuja, Radcliffe Bailey, Chakaia Booker, iona rozeal brown, Elizabeth Catlett, Michael Ray Charles, Bethany Collins, Eldzier Cortor, Renée Cox, Noah Davis, Abigail Deville, Theaster Gates, Deborah Grant, Lyle Ashton Harris, Leslie Hewitt, Ann Johnson, Rashid Johnson, Jennie C. Jones, Titus Kaphar, Lauren Kellay, Glenn Ligon, Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Wardell Milan, Nandipha Mntambo, Wangechi Mutu, Kori Newkirk, Demetrius Oliver, Robert Pruitt, William Edouard Scott, Xaviera Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Shinique Smith, Jeff Sonhouse, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Hank Willis Thomas, James Vanderzee, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Kehinde Wiley, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Brenna Youngblood
GATES, HENRY LOUIS and EVELYN BROOKS HIGGINBOTHAM, eds.
African American National Biography.
2009.
Originally published in 8 volumes, the set has grown to 12 vollumes with the addition of 1000 new entries. Also available as online database of biographies, accessible only to paid subscribers (well-endowed institutions and research libraries.) As per update of February 2, 2009, the following artists were included in the 8-volume set, plus addenda. A very poor showing for such an important reference work. Hopefully there are many more artists in the new entries: Jesse Aaron, Julien Abele (architect), John H. Adams, Jr., Ron Adams, Salimah Ali, James Latimer Allen, Charles H. Alston, Amalia Amaki, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, William E. Artis, Herman "Kofi" Bailey, Walter T. Bailey (architect), James Presley Ball, Edward M. Bannister, Anthony Barboza, Ernie Barnes, Richmond Barthé, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cornelius Marion Battey, Romare Bearden, Phoebe Beasley, Arthur Bedou, Mary A. Bell, Cuesta Ray Benberry, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Howard Bingham, Alpha Blackburn, Robert H. Blackburn, Walter Scott Blackburn, Melvin R. Bolden, David Bustill Bowser, Wallace Branch, Barbara Brandon, Grafton Tyler Brown, Richard Lonsdale Brown, Barbara Bullock, Selma Hortense Burke, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs, John Bush, Elmer Simms Campbell, Elizabeth Catlett, David C. Chandler, Jr., Raven Chanticleer, Ed Clark, Allen Eugene Cole, Robert H. Colescott, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest T. Crichlow, Michael Cummings, Dave the Potter [David Drake], Griffith J. Davis, Thomas Day, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Thornton Dial, Sr., Joseph Eldridge Dodd, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, Sam Doyle, David Clyde Driskell, Robert S. Duncanson, Ed Dwight (listed as military, not as artist); Mel Edwards, Minnie Jones Evans, William McNight Farrow, Elton Fax, Daniel Freeman, Meta Warrick Fuller, Reginald Gammon, King Daniel Ganaway, the Goodridge Brothers, Rex Goreleigh, Tyree Guyton, James Hampton, Della Brown Taylor (Hardman), Edwin Augustus Harleston, Charles "Teenie" Harris, Lyle Ashton Harris, Bessie Harvey, Isaac Scott Hathaway, Palmer Hayden, Nestor Hernandez, George Joseph Herriman, Varnette Honeywood, Walter Hood, Richard L. Hunster, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Bill Hutson, Joshua Johnson, Sargent Claude Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Ann Keesee, Gwendolyn Knight, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, Samella Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Jules Lion, Edward Love, Estella Conwill Majozo, Ellen Littlejohn, Kerry James Marshall, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Richard Mayhew, Carolyn Mazloomi, Aaron Vincent McGruder, Robert H. McNeill, Scipio Moorhead, Archibald H. Motley, Jr., Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Mr. Imagination (Gregory Warmack), Lorraine O'Grady, Jackie Ormes, Joe Overstreet, Carl Owens, Gordon Parks, Sr., Gordon Parks, Jr., C. Edgar Patience, Howardena Pindell, Adrian Margaret Smith Piper, Rose Piper, Horace Pippin, William Sidney Pittman, Stephanie Pogue, Prentiss Herman Polk (as Prentice), James Amos Porter, Harriet Powers, Elizabeth Prophet, Martin Puryear, Patrick Henry Reason, Michael Richards, Arthur Rose, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, Augusta Savage, Joyce J. Scott, Addison Scurlock, George Scurlock, Willie Brown Seals, Charles Sebree, Joe Selby, Lorna Simpson, Norma Merrick Sklarek, Clarissa Sligh, Albert Alexander Smith, Damballah Smith, Marvin and Morgan Smith, Maurice B. Sorrell, Simon Sparrow, Rozzell Sykes, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, J.J. Thomas, Robert Louis (Bob) Thompson, Mildred Jean Thompson, Dox Thrash, William Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Leo F. Twiggs, James Augustus Joseph Vanderzee, Kara Walker, William Onikwa Wallace, Laura Wheeler Waring, Augustus Washington, James W. Washington, Jr., Carrie Mae Weems, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, John H. White, Jack Whitten, Carla Williams, Daniel S. Williams, Paul Revere Williams (architect), Deborah Willis, Ed Wilson, Ellis Wilson, Fred Wilson, John Woodrow Wilson, Ernest C. Withers, Beulah Ecton Woodard, Hale Aspacio Woodruff.
GOLDBERG, VICKI and ROBERT SILBERMAN, eds.
American Photography: A Century of Images.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1999.
228 pp., 50 color and 110 b&w illus. Includes: Bernie Boston, Albert Chong, Chester Higgins, Jr., Gordon Parks, Eli Reed, Lorna Simpson, James Vanderzee, Carrie Mae Weems, Ernest C. Withers. 4to, cloth, d.j.
GOLDEN, THELMA, ed.
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art.
New York: Abrams, 1995.
223 pp. exhib. catalogue, approx. 100 illus., 23 full-page color plates, bibliog., film and video program lists. Important compendium of writings on masculinity and race. Writers include: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., John G. Hanhardt, Elizabeth Alexander, Greg Tate, Valerie Smith, bell hooks, Ed Guerrero, Phillip Brian Harper, Isaac Julien, Tricia Rose, Andrew Ross, Clyde Taylor. 25 artists including: Emma Amos, Kenseth Armstead, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, Nayland Blake, Skunder Boghossian, Mel Chinn, Robert Colescott, Renée Cox, Roy DeCarava, Aaron Douglas, Jean DeDeaux, Kevin Jerome Everson, David Hammons, Lyle Ashton Harris, Barkley Hendricks, K.O.S., Jacob Lawrence, Glenn Ligon, Carl Pope, Adrian Piper, Horace Pippin, Martin Puryear, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson, James Vanderzee, Christian Walker, Jack Waters (video The Male GaYze), Carrie Mae Weems, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams, Pat Ward Williams, Fred Wilson and filmmaker Marco Williams ("In Search of My Father." [Exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.] [Exhibition reviews (among others): Ellis Cose and Peter Plagens, "Black Like Whom?" Newsweek (November 14, 1994):64+; Michael Kimmelman, "Constructing Images of the Black Male," NYT, (November 11, 1994):C1; Elizabeth Hess, "Visible Man," Village Voice (November 22, 1994):31+; Mark Stevens, "Black and Blue," New York Magazine (November 21,1994):68; Sandra Hernandez, "Approaching 'Black Male' Agitates L.A." LA Weekly (January 6-12, 1995):10; Jen Budney, "Black Male," Flash Art, February 1995: 91; Linda Nochlin, "Learning from 'Black Male,'" Art in America 3 (March 1995):86-91; Joe Lewis, "More 'Black Male' for L.A.," Art in America 83 (April 1995):25; Okwui Enwezor, "The Body in Question: Whose Body? ‘Black Male: Representation of Masculinity in Contemporary Art'," Third Text, no. 31, Summer 1995.] 8vo, stiff wraps. First ed.
GREENWICH (CT). Bruce Museum of Arts and Science.
Group show.
February-May, 1994.
Works by 19 African American artists drawn from the Reader's Digest collection. Included: Romare Bearden, Robert Colescott, Roy DeCarava, Sam Gilliam, Noah Jemison, Jacob Lawrence, Howardena Pindell, Lorna Simpson, James Vanderzee, Carrie Mae Weems, Michael Kelly Williams, and 8 others. [Review by Vivien Raynor in NYT, February 6, 1994.]
HALL, STUART and MARK SEALY, eds.
Different: Historical Context Contemporary Photographers and Black Identity.
London and New York: Phaidon, 2001.
207 pp., b&w and color illus. (most full-page), index of artists. Major text by Stuart Hall. Work by black artists from the U.S., Britain, Caribbean, and Africa, exploring images of their identity. Includes: Ajamu, Faisal Abdu'allah, Vincent Allen, David A. Bailey, Oladélé Bamgboyé, Dawoud Bey, Zarina Bhimji, Vanley Burke, Mama Casset, Albert V. Chong, Clement Cooper, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Samuel Fosso, Armet Francis, Remy Gastambide, Bob Gosani, Joy Gregory, George Hallett, Lyle Ashton Harris, Seydou Keita, Roshini Kempadoo, Peter Max Khondola, Alf Kumalo, Anthony Lam, Eric Lesdema, Dave Lewis, Peter Magubane, Ricky Maynard, Eustaguio Neves, Horace Ove, Gordon Parks, Eileen Perrier, Ingrid Pollard, Richard Samuel Roberts, Franklyn Rodgers, Faizal Sheikh, Yinka Shonibare, Malick Sidibé, Lorna Simpson, Clarissa Sligh, Robert Taylor, Iké Udé, James VanDerZee, Maxine Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Willis, Ernest Withers. Small 4to (25 cm.), red papered boards. First ed.
HAMPTON (VA). Hampton University.
The International Review of African American Art Vol. 8, no. 4.
1991.
64 pp. issue devoted to African American photography. Articles include: "African American Photographers 1839-1989. An Overview" by Deborah Willis; "Vanderzee" by Donna Mussenden Vanderzee; "The Eye Music of Gordon Parks" by Mary Jane Hewitt and "For The Record: James Van Der Zee, Marcus Garvey, and The UNIA Photographs." illus. by Gordon Parks, Vance Allen, Sulaiman Ellison, James P. Ball, Goodridge Brothers, James Van Der Zee, James Latimer Allen, C.M. Battey, Elise Forrest Harleston, P.H. Polk, Richard S. Roberts, Marvin and Morgan Smith, Moneta Sleet, Jr., Richard Saunders, and Robert Sengstacke. 4to, wraps.
HARNEY, ELIZABETH, ed.
Flava: Wedge Curatorial Projects 1997-2007.
2008.
142 pp., 50 color and 80 b&w illus. Intro. by Deborah Willis. Texts by Julie Crooks, Cameron Bailey, Warren Crichlow, Pamela Edmonds, Gaylene Gould, Pablo Idahosa, Jürgen Schadeberg, Ruth Kerkham Simbao. A collection of photo-based work that explores black identity celebrates the tenth anniversary of Toronto's Wedge Curatorial Projects, founded by collector and Wedge Gallery Director Kenneth Montague. The works range from vintage Harlem Renaissance images to the Black British Arts movement, documentary photographs of Africa to contemporary portraiture and conceptual work. Includes: J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, Dawit L. Petros, Seydou Keïta, Malick Sidibé, Stacey Tyrell, Mickalene Thomas, James VanDerZee and Hank Willis-Thomas, among others. 4to (12 x 8 in.), boards.
HARTFORD (CT). Amistad Foundation, Wadsworth Atheneum.
Contemporary Memories: Selections from the Collection of The Amistad Center for Art & Culture.
October 28, 2012-April 21, 2013.
Group exhibition. Curated by Alona C. Wilson. Included: Benny Andrews, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Sheila Pree Bright, Kesha Bruce, Willie Cole, Jeff Donaldson, Emory Douglas, David Driskell, Herbert Gentry, Richard Hunt, Louise E. Jefferson, Jacob Lawrence, Charly Palmer, Addison Scurlock, Hank Willis Thomas, James Vanderzee, Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Willis, Hale Woodruff, Richard Yarde, and others.
HARTFORD (CT). Amistad Foundation, Wadsworth Atheneum.
Contemporary Memories: Selections from the Collection of The Amistad Center for Art & Culture.
October 28-April 21, 2013.
Group exhibition. Curated by Alona C. Wilson. Included: Benny Andrews, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Sheila Pree Bright, Kesha Bruce, Willie Cole, Jeff Donaldson, Emory Douglas, David Driskell, Herbert Gentry, Louise E. Jefferson, Jacob Lawrence, Charly Palmer, Addison Scurlock, Shinique Smith, Hank Willis Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Willis, Hale Woodruff, Richard Yarde.
HARTFORD (CT). Wadsworth Atheneum.
Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera.
2005-2006.
20 pp. exhib. cat., illus. Group exhibition of daguerrotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes as well as work by contemporary photographers. Curated by Lisa Henry and Frank Mitchell. Includes: Maya Freelon Asante, April Banks, Sheila Pree Bright, Kesha Bruce, Albert Chong, Renée Cox, Gerald Cyrus, Roy DeCarava, Leslie Hewitt, Melvina Lathan, Stephanie Lindsey, Gordon Parks, Wendy Phillips, Betye Saar, Lorna Simpson, Bayeté Ross Smith, Darryl Smith, Hank Willis Thomas, James Vanderzee, Augustus Washington, Lewis Watts, Carrie Mae Weems, Amanda Williams, Carla Williams, Deborah Willis, et al. [Traveled to: Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, 2008; DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, IL, April 16-June 14, 2009; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, 2010; Thorne-Sagendorph Gallery, Keene State College, NH, 2010; David Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2011.]
HEMPSTEAD (NY). Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University.
A Blossoming of New Promises: Art in the Spirit of the Harlem Renaissance.
February 5-March 14, 1984.
28 pp., 19 b&w illus., 5 full-page color plates (including cover plate), checklist of 55 works by 25 artists, notes, bibliog. Text by Gail Gelburd. Includes (only 5 women artists): Charles Alston, Richmond Barthé, Aaron Douglas, Meta Warrick Fuller, Edwin A. Harleston, Palmer Hayden, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Archibald Motley, P.H. Polk, James Porter, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Augusta Savage, William Scott, Albert Alexander Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, James Vanderzee, Laura Wheeler Waring, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Hale Woodruff. 4to, stapled wraps. First ed.
HOUSTON (TX). Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
The Target Collection of American Photography: A Century in Pictures.
December 3, 2006-February 5, 2007.
Group exhibition. Included: James Vanderzee. [Traveled to: Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX (May 19-August 12, 2007); and Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX (September 11-November 30, 2008.)
HOUSTON (TX). The Menil Collection.
Everyday People: 20th-Century Photography from The Menil Collection.
January 26-April 29, 2007.
Group exhibition. Included: Gordon Parks, Moneta Sleet, Jr., ad James Vanderzee.
JEGEDE, DELE.
Encyclopedia of African American Artists (Artists of the American Mosaic).
Westport (CT): Greenwood, 2009.
280 pp., b&w illus. and 8 pp. color plates, brief bibliogs. after biographical entries, short general bibliog., index. 66 artists included, some with full entries, some additional artists named in passing. Not remotely encyclopedic. Includes: Charles Alston, Olu Amoda, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, George Andrews, Herman Kofi Bailey, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, John T. Biggers, Elmer Simms Campbell, George Washington Carver, Elizabeth Catlett, Sonya Clark, Robert Colescott, Larry Collins, Ed Colston, Achamyele Debela, Roy DeCarava, Gebre Desta, Buddie Jake Dial, Thornton Dial, Sr., Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, David Driskell, Melvin Edwards, Victor Ekpuk, Ben Enwonwu, Tolulope Filani, Sam Gilliam, Palmer Hayden, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Charnelle Holloway, George Hughes, Richard Hunt, Wadsworth Jarrell, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Lois Mailiou Jones, Ronald Joseph, Byron Kim, Wosene Worke Kosrof, Jacob Lawrence, Edmonia Lewis, Cynthia Lockhart, Frank (Toby) Martin, Richard, Mayhew, Carolyn Mazloomi, Julie Mehretu, Archibald Motley, Wangechi Mutu, Barbara Nesin, Odili Donald Odita, Christopher Okigbo, Bruce Onobrakpeya, Kolade Oshinowo, Gordon Parks, Thomas Phelps, Horace Pippin, Willi Posey (under Jones), Ellen Jean Price, Martin Puryear, Femi Richards, Faith Ringgold, Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Betye Saar, Augusta Savage, John T. Scott, Gerard Sekoto, Thomas Shaw, Lorna Simpson, Edgar Sorrells-Adewale, SPIRAL, Renée Stout, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Fatimah Tuggar, Obiora Udechukwu, James Vanderzee, Ouattara Watts, Carrie Mae Weems, Charles White, William T. Williams, Hale Woodruff. 4to (10.1 x 7.2 in.), boards.
JORDAN, DENISE.
Harlem Renaissance Artists.
Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2003.
64 pp., illus. in color and b&w, bibliog., index. General survey designed for juvenile readers, with brief biographies of 11 artists: Richmond Barthé, Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Claude Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Augusta Savage, Hale Woodruff, James Vanderzee. 8vo (24 cm.).
KALAMAZOO (MI). Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.
Reflections: African American Life from the Myrna Colley-Lee Collection.
February 23-May 19, 2013.
Group exhibition of 50-57 works (depending on the venue) including paintings, collages, works on paper and quilts. Curated by Rene Paul Barilleaux and Susan McClamroch. Included: Radcliffe Bailey, Romare Bearden, Carol Ann Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Ernest Crichlow, James Denmark, Roland L. Freeman, Gerald Ivey, Gwendolyn Knight, Norman Lewis, Geraldine Nash, Joseph Norman, Hystercine Rankin, Betye Saar, John T. Scott, James Vanderzee, Charles White, Hale Woodruff, et al. [Traveled to: Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, August 17-October 27, 2013; Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA, December 6, 2013-February 22, 2014; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, March 16-June 8, 2014; Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS, September 14-November 16, 2014; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL, January 17-March 8, 2015; Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin, TX, June 19-August 23, 2015.]
KALAMAZOO (MI). Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts.
Embracing Diverse Voices: African-American Art in the Collection.
October 3-November 29, 2009.
Group exhibition of over sixty works of art. Artists included: Al Harris, Murphy Darden, James M. Watkins, Maria Scott and James Palmore along with nationally known artists Robert S. Duncanson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, Lorna Simpson, Hughie Lee-Smith, Charles White, photographs by James Van Der Zee and Ernest C. Withers. [Traveled to: Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH, September 19-November 16, 2014.]
Lewis, Samella, ed.
Black Art: an international quarterly Vol. 1, No. 4 (Summer 1977).
1977.
68 pp., b&w and color illus. Includes: Larry Walker Artist/Teacher; Fremez: Cuban Printmaker; Obituary: William Ellsworth Artis; The Image and the Poem; Kenneth Falana portfolio; Camille Billops's autobiographical essay; Raymond Saunders portfolio; The sculpture of Chester Williams; UCLA exhibition on Ghanaian art. Artwork by: Raymond Saunders, Larry Walker, Fremez, Betye Saar, Kenneth Falana, Camille Billops, Chester Williams, Howard Smith, Dana Chandler, Elizabeth Catlett, plus photographs by James VanDerZee. 4to, wraps.
LINCOLN (NE). Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Interpreting Experience: Bey, DeCarava, VanDerZee.
December 8, 2001-March 3, 2002.
Three-person exhibition of 25 images.
LONDON (UK). Hayward Gallery and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
180 pp. exhib. cat., 153 color plates, numerous b&w illus., checklist of over 130 works. Foreword by David A. Bailey; texts by Richard J. Powell, Simon Callow, Andrea D. Barnwell, Jeffrey C. Stewart, Paul Gilroy, Martina Attille, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Artists include: Charles Alston, Aaron Douglas, Richmond Barthé, Meta Vaux Fuller, Palmer Hayden, William H. Johnson, Sargent Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Isaac Julien, Jacob Lawrence, Archibald Motley, Richard S. Roberts, Augusta Savage, James VanDerZee, and white artist Winold Reiss. 4to, cloth, d.j. First hardcover ed.
LONDON (UK). Tate Modern.
Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography.
May 22-August 31, 2008.
Group exhibition of 350 works featuring the history of photography taken on the street or in the studio. Included: Malick Sidibé and James Vanderzee.
LOS ANGELES (CA). California African American Museum.
Between Two Worlds: The Alitash Kebede Collection.
June 14-September 2, 2007.
Exhibition of over 100 works. Included: Skunder Boghossian, Emilio Cruz, Richard Mayhew, Betye Saar, Alison Saar, Lezley Saar, Jacob Lawrence, James Vanderzee, Bob Thompson, and Todd Gray, plus many others.
LOS ANGELES (CA). California African American Museum.
Place of Validation: Art and Progression.
September 29, 2011-April 1, 2012.
Group exhibition of work by over 84 artists. Funded as part of the Getty's Pacific Standard Time exhibitions, but without funding for a catalogue.
MADISON (W(). Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
Apple Pie: Symbols of Americana in MMoCA's Permanent Collection.
January 23-April 11, 2010.
Group exhibition. Included: Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and James Vanderzee.
MASSOOD, PAULA J.
Making a Promised Land: Harlem in Twentieth-Century Photography and Film.
Rutgers University Press, 2013.
264 pp., illus. 8vo, cloth, d.j.
MEMPHIS (TN). Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
The Soul of a City: Memphis Collects African American Art.
June 9-September 2, 2013.
Group exhibition of 130 works. Included: Romare Bearden, Radcliffe Bailey, Chakaia Booker, Elizabeth Catlett, Sonya Clark, Thornton Dial, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Sam Gilliam, Clementine Hunter, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Whitfield Lovell, Wangechi Mutu, Demetrius Oliver, Elijah Pierce, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Lorna Simpson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Bill Traylor, James Vanderzee, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Kehinde Wiley, Ernest C. Withers, Purvis Young, and Memphis artists George Hunt, Brenda Joysmith, TWINS (Jerry & Terry Lynn), Jared Small, Danny Broadway, Anthony Lee, Michael Rodgers, Dewitt Jordan, Kiersten Williams, Hattie Childress, Luther Hampton, Edwin Jeffrey, and Hawkins Bolden.
MINNEAPOLIS (MN). University Art Museum, University of Minnesota.
A Stronger Soul Within a Finer Frame: Portraying African Americans in the Black Renaissance.
1990.
64 pp. exhib. cat., 21 b&w illus., color cover illus., exhib. checklist. Multi-disciplinary exhibition rather randomly covering literature, painting, graphic arts, film and music. Many works were exhibited in reproduction only. Text by John S. Wright and Tracy E. Smith. Includes: James Latimer Allen, Charles Alston, Richmond Barthé, C.M. Battey, Aaron Douglas, E. Simms Campbell, Palmer Hayden, Lois Mailou Jones, Archibald Motley, Jr., Augusta Savage, Addison Scurlock, Albert A. Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, James Vanderzee, Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias, and many white artists. Also includes a section on the Black Arts movement of the Sixties with images of work by Alison Saar and Gordon Parks. 4to (28 cm), pictorial stapled wraps. First ed.
NATANSON, NICHOLAS.
The Black Image in the New Deal: The Politics of FSA Photography.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.
xii, 305 pp., 105 b&w photos, list of illus., notes, bibliog., index. Interesting scholarly study of FSA photographs 1935-42. 10% of the images of the FSA depicted black subjects or their dwellings. Includes: Dan Burley, Ellsworth Davis, Griffith J. Davis, Roy DeCarava, Austin Hansen, Nat Harris, Leonard C. Hyman, Vera Jackson, Billy Joseph, E. F. Joseph, Dewitt Keith, Robert H. McNeill, Gordon Parks, P.H. Polk, Paul Poole, Emmanuel F. Rowe, Richard Samuel Roberts, Richard Saunders, Addison L. Scurlock, Robert S. Scurlock, Moneta J. Sleet, Roger Smith, James Vanderzee, Robert Williams, Emma King Woodard, Steve Wright. 8vo, cloth, dust jacket. First ed.
NEW ORLEANS (LA). New Orleans Museum of Art.
Inner Cities.
January 17-April 11, 2004.
Group exhibition. Included: James Van Der Zee.
NEW YORK (NY)..
The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference.
Wiley, 1999.
Includes a short and dated list of the usual 110+ artists, with a considerable New York bias, and a random handful of Haitian artists, reflecting the collection at the Schomburg: architect Julian Francis Abele. Josephine Baker, Edward M. Bannister, Amiri Baraka, Richmond Barthé, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, John T. Biggers, Camille Billops, Bob Blackburn, Betty Blayton, Frank Bowling, Grafton Tyler Brown, Selma Burke, Margaret Burroughs, David Butler, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Edward Clark, Robert Colescott, Ernest Crichlow, Emilio Cruz, William Dawson, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Aaron Douglas, John Dowell, Robert S. Duncanson, John Dunkley, William Edmondson, Melvin Edwards, Minnie Evans, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Sam Gilliam, Henry Gudgell, David Hammons, James Hampton, William A. Harper, Bessie Harvey, Isaac Hathaway, Albert Huie, Eugene Hyde, Jean-Baptiste Jean, Florian Jenkins, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Lois Mailou Jones, Lou Jones, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Ronald Joseph, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, Georges Liautaud, Seresier Louisjuste, Richard Mayhew, Jean Metellus, Oscar Micheaux, David Miller, Scipio Moorhead, Archibald J. Motley, Abdias do Nascimento, Philomé Obin, Joe Overstreet, Gordon Parks, David Philpot, Elijah Pierce, Howardena Pindell, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, David Pottinger, Harriet Powers, Martin Puryear, Gregory D. Ridley, Faith Ringgold, Sultan Rogers, Leon Rucker, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, Augusta Savage, William Edouard Scott, Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene, Ntozake Shange, Philip Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Moneta J. Sleet, Vincent D. Smith, Micius Stéphane, Renée Stout, SUN RA, Alma Thomas, Neptune Thurston, Mose Tolliver (as Moses), Bill Traylor, Gerard Valcin, James Vanderzee, Melvin Van Peebles. Derek Walcott, Kara Walker, Eugene Warburg, Laura Wheeler Waring, James W. Washington, Barrington Watson, Carrie Mae Weems, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Jack Whitten, Lester Willis, William T. Williams, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Richard Yarde. 8vo (9.1 x 7.5 in.), cloth, d.j.
NEW YORK (NY). Alternative Museum.
Ashes to Ashes: Visions of Death.
1983.
16 pp. exhib. cat., illus. Curated by Geno Rodriguez; text by Judd Tully. Included: James Vanderzee. Oblong 4to (22 x 28 in.), stapled wraps. Offset printing.
NEW YORK (NY). Bellevue Hospital Center Atrium.
Images of Color 2008 - New York.
February 19-March 6, 2008.
An Exhibition in Celebration of Black History Month. Works from the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation's Art Collection. Included: Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Ramona Candy, Stephanie Chisholm, Eva Cockroft, Eldzier Cortor, Masha Froliak, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, D. Lammie-Hanson, Alex Harsley, William Howard, Richard Hunt, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Richard Mayhew, Otto Neals, Ademola Olugebefola, Valerie Phillips, Gina Samson, Alfred J. Smith, Vincent Smith, James VanDerZee, Charles White, Emmett Wigglesworth, John Wilson, and Wendy Wilson.
NEW YORK (NY). Bellevue Hospital Center Atrium.
New York City: In Focus.
October 9-November 21, 2008.
Group exhibition of New York based photographers, as well as, emerging photographers with subjects focusing on different aspects of iconic imagery from NYC: architecture, landscape, culture and people. Included: Pamela Allen, Dawoud Bey, Wayne Clarke, D. Lammie Hanson, Alex Harsley, Leroy Henderson, Charlie Martin, Valerie Phillips, Ming Smith, James Vanderzee.
NEW YORK (NY). Bill Hodges Gallery.
African American Art IV.
2006.
80 pp., 89 illus. (approx. 59 in color), one-page bios. of each artist, notes. Artists included: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Camille Billops, Edward Clark, Roy DeCarava, Melvin Edwards, Lyle Ashton Harris, Jo Ann Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Nelson A. Primus, Charles Sebree, Lorna Simpson, James Vanderzee, James Lesesne Wells. Small 4to, pictorial card wraps. First ed.
NEW YORK (NY). Feature Gallery.
I Only Want You to Love Me.
October 7-November 4, 1989.
Group exhibition of work by nine artists Curated by Hilton Als. Included: Camille Billops, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, Darryl Turner, James VanDerZee. The homage to Fassbinder's film seems to have been more in the mind of the curator than in the work of the artists.
NEW YORK (NY). International Center of Photography.
African American Vernacular Photography: Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection.
December 5, 2005-February 26, 2006.
128 pp., 70 color plates. Texts by curator Brian Wallis and by Deborah Willis. Images of African Americans in a variety of genres and poses, including formal studio portraits, casual snapshots, images of children, images of uniformed soldiers, wedding portraits and so-called "Southern-views" made for tourist consumption, all dating from 1860 to 1960. [Exhibition by same title organized by the International Center of Photography, January 23-April 9, 1994.] 4to (29 cm.; 11.3 x 8.5 in.), boards.
NEW YORK (NY). International Center of Photography and Seattle Art Museum, Seattle.
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self.
New York: ICP and Abrams, 2003.
416 pp. exhib. cat., illus. Curated by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis. Exhibition of 77 photographers. Includes: Dawoud Bey, Kerry Stuart Coppin, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Renée Cox, Roy DeCarava, Rico Gatson, Mark S. Greenfield, Lyle Ashton Harris, Chester Higgins, Jr., Rashid Johnson, Isaac Julien, Glenn Ligon, Wangechi Mutu, Kori Newkirk, Maria de Mater O'Neill, Gordon Parks, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson, James Vanderzee, Carrie Mae Weems, Fred Wilson. 4to (10.3 x 7.8 in.), cloth, d.j.
NEW YORK (NY). Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.
African American Art, 20th century Masterworks, VI.
January 14-March 6, 1999.
60 pp., 41 color plates, 36 b&w illus. Foreword by Michael Rosenfeld. Artists include: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Selma Burke, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Harold Cousins, Allan Rohan Crite, Beauford Delaney, Sam Gilliam, Palmer Hayden, Richard Hunt, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Betye Saar, William Edouard Scott, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Bob Thompson, Bill Traylor, James VanDerZee, Charles White and Hale Woodruff. [Traveled to Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI.] 8vo (23 cm.; 8.5 x 6 in.), pictorial stiff wraps. First ed.
NEW YORK (NY). Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.
African American Art: 20th century Masterworks, III.
February 1-April 6, 1996.
48 pp. exhib. cat., 49 color plates (most full-page), exhib. checklist; statements by artists and brief biogs. of each. Includes: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, Bearden, Richmond Barthé, Eldzier Cortor, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, William Edmondson, Sam Gilliam, Palmer Hayden, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois. Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Richard Mayhew, Prentiss Polk, James Porter, Betye Saar, Augusta Savage, Henry O. Tanner, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, James Vanderzee, Charles White, Ellis Wilson, Hale Woodruff. 8vo (23 cm.; 8.5 x 6 in.), pictorial stiff wraps. First ed.
NEW YORK (NY). Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.
African American Art: 20th century Masterworks, V.
January 22-March 21, 1998.
52 pp., checklist of 44 works, all illus. in color, plus b&w photos of artists with brief biog. notes for each. Text by Leslie King-Hammond. Includes: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Harold Cousins, Beauford Delaney, Aaron Douglas, William Edmondson, Sam Gilliam, Palmer Hayden, Richard Hunt, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Haywood Oubré, Marion Perkins, Horace Pippin, Betye Saar, Henry O. Tanner, Bob Thompson, Bill Traylor, VanDerZee, Charles White, Hale Woodruff. [Traveled to Newcombe Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans.] 8vo (8.5 x 6 in.), pictorial stiff wraps. First ed.
NEW YORK (NY). Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IX.
January 17-March 9, 2002.
64 pp. exhib. catalogue, 40 illus. (most in color), biogs., bibliog. Text by Dr. Leslie King-Hammond. Artists include: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, William E. Artis, Romare Bearden, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Marion Perkins, Horace Pippin, Betye Saar, Augusta Savage, Charles Sebree, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Bill Traylor, James VanDerZee, Laura Wheeler Waring, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff. 8vo (23 cm.; 8.5 x 6 in.), pictorial stiff wraps. First ed.
NEW YORK (NY). Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VII. Educating our children.
January 13-March 4, 2000.
70 pp., color illus., bibliog. Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, William E. Artis, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Selma Burke, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Harold Cousins, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Palmer Hayden, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Edward Loper, Marion Perkins, Horace Pippin, Betye Saar, Albert Alexander Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Bill Traylor, James VanDerZee, Laura Wheeler Waring, Charles White, Ellis Wilson, Hale Woodruff. [Traveled to Appleton Museum, Florida State University, Ocala, FL.] 8vo (23 cm., 8.5 x 6 in.), pictorial stiff wraps. First ed.
NEW YORK (NY). Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.
African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VIII.
January 18-March 10, 2001.
68 pp. exhib. catalogue, 70 illus. (mostly in color), bibliog. Foreword by Alvia J. Wardlaw; text by hallery k harrisburg and Michael Rosenfeld. Artists include: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, William E. Artis, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Beauford Delaney, Aaron Douglas, Herbert Gentry, Palmer Hayden, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Richard Mayhew, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Betye Saar, Augusta Savage, Charles Sebree, Albert Alexander Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Bill Traylor, James VanDerZee, Charles White, Ellis Wilson, Hale Woodruff. [Traveled to: Texas Southern University Museum, Houston, TX.] Sq. 8vo (23 cm.; 8.5 x 6 in.), pictorial stiff wraps. First ed.
NEW YORK (NY). Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.
African-American art: 20th Century Masterworks, X.
January 17-March 8, 2003.
80 pp. exhib. cat., illus. (44 in color), bibliog. Text by Robin Kelley. 27 artists included: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Eldzier Cortor, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Palmer Hayden, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Marion Perkins, Horace Pippin, Betye Saar, Augusta Savage, William Edouard Scott, Charles Sebree, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Bill Traylor, James VanderZee, Charles White, Ellis Wilson, Hale Woodruff. 8vo (23 cm.; 8.5 x 6 in.), pictorial stiff wraps. First ed.
NEW YORK (NY). Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.
Building Community: The African American Scene.
January 13-March 11, 2006.
28 pp. exhib. cat., color illus. 19 artists included: Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Eldzier Cortor, Allan Rohan Crite, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Aaron Douglas, Robert Duncanson, Allan Freelon, Palmer Hayden, Malvin Gray Johnson, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Hughie Lee-Smith, Horace Pippin, William Edouard Scott, Henry Ossawa Tanner, James Vanderzee, Hale Woodruff. Poem by Richard Wright "We of the Streets." 12mo (16 cm.), card wraps.
NEW YORK (NY). Michael Rosenfeld Gallery.
Exultations: African American Art: 20th century Masterworks, II.
February 1-April 8, 1995.
48 pp., 45 color plates, 3 b&w illus., exhib. checklist of 51 works by 29 artists. Text by Richard J. Powell. Includes: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, Ernie Barnes, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Norman Cousins, Allan Rohan Crite, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Aaron Douglas, Sam Gilliam, Palmer Hayden, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Horace Pippin, Robert Pious, Prentice H. Polk, James A. Porter, Betye Saar, Augusta Savage, Henry O. Tanner, Bob Thompson, James VanDerZee, Charles White, Ellis Wilson, and Hale Woodruff. [Traveled to Flint Art Institute, Flint, MI.] Sq. 8vo (23 cm.; 8.5 x 6 in.), pictorial stiff wraps. First ed.
NEW YORK (NY). Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Black New York Photographers of the Twentieth Century: Selections from the Schomburg Center Collections.
May 19-September 30, 1999.
76 pp., 56 full-page b&w illus., 1 text illus., checklist with brief biographies of all photographers. Intro. Mary F. Yearwood. Includes: Salimah Ali, James L. Allen, Jules Allen, Vance Allen, Bert Andrews, Anthony Barboza, Cornelius M. Battey, Dawoud Bey, Terry E. Boddie, Anthony Bonair, Kwame Brathwaite, Ron Campbell, Doughba Hamilton Caranda-Martin, Wayne Clarke, Gerald Cyrus, Isaac Diggs, Martin Dixon, Sulaiman Ellison, Lavell (Khepera Ausar) Finerson, Collette V. Fournier, Gerard H. Gaskin, Austin Hansen, Inge Hardison, Joe Harris, Gerald E. Hayes, Tahir Hemphill, Leroy W. Henderson, Heru (Art Harrison), Chester Higgins, Cecil Layne, Steve J. Martin, Frantz Michaud, Cheryl Miller, Marilyn Nance, Gordon Parks, Moira Pernambuco, Edgar E. Phipps, Juanita M. Prince-Cole, Orville Robertson, Eli Reed, Richard Saunders, Coreen Simpson, Moneta Sleet, Jr., Beuford Smith, Klytus Smith, Ming Smith, Morgan and Marvin Smith, Chuck Stewart, Frank Stewart, James Vanderzee, Shawn W. Walker, Budd Williams. 4to, pictorial wraps. First ed.
NEW YORK (NY). Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Schomburg Collects WPA Artists 1935-1943.
September 6, 2013-January 4, 2014.
Group exhibition. Includes: Hale Woodruff, Augusta Savage, Beauford Delaney, James Vanderzee, Bob Blackburn, Addison Scurlock.
NEW YORK (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem.
African Queen.
January 26-March 27, 2005.
Group exhibition focusing on images of black women. Over 50 works in various media by 30 contemporary artists. Curated by Rashida Bumbray, Ali Evans, Sandra D. Jackson and Christine Y. Kim. Includes (among others): John Bankston, Dawoud Bey, Mark Bradford, Chakaia Booker, Renée Cox, Rico Gatson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Barkley Hendricks, Deana Lawson, Kalup Linzy's "All My Churen," Adia Millett, Nzingah Muhammad, Wangechi Mutu, Kori Newkirk, J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, Nadine Robinson, Tracey Rose, Rudy Shepherd, Malick Sidibé, Lorna Simpson, Xaviera Simmons, Shinique Smith, Mickalene Thomas, Fatimah Tuggar, Ike Udé, James VanderZee, Francesco Vezzou, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Deborah Willis.
NEW YORK (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem.
Challenge of the Modern: African American Artists, 1925-1946.
January 23-March 30, 2003.
125 pp., illus. (many in color), bibliog. Texts by Lowery Stokes Sims, Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Leronn Brooks, Leslie King-Hammond and Helen Shannon. Artists include: James Latimer Allen, Charles Alston, William Artis, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr., Selma Burke, Albert I. Cassell, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Stuart Davis, Beauford Delaney, Aaron Douglas, William Edmondson, Louis Fry, Palmer Hayden, Clementine Hunter, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Anna Russell Jones, Wifredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Howard Mackey, Edna Manley, Robert McNeil, Archibald Motley, Bruce Nugent, Philomé Obin, Hayward Oubré, Horace Pippin, Elizabeth Prophet, Winnold Reiss (white), Hilyard Robinson, Charles Sebree, Morgan and Marvin Smith, James Vanderzee, Carl Van Vechten (white), James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Ellis Wilson, Clarence "Cap" Wigington, Hale Woodruff. 4to (11 x 8.5 in.; 30 cm.), wraps. First ed.
NEW YORK (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem.
Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection.
April 1-June 28, 2009.
Group exhibition of over 200 works by more than 100 artists. Included: John Ahearn, Jules Allen, Charles Alston, Xenobia Bailey, John Bankston, Romare Bearden, Chakaia Booker, Beverly Buchanan, Elizabeth Catlett, Roy DeCarava, Nzuji De Magalhaes, Thornton Dial, Sr., Lamidi Fakeye, Amos Ferguson, Meschac Gaba, Deborah Grant, Rashawn Griffin, David Hammons, Clementine Hunter, Gwen Knight, Glenn Ligon, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Kerry James Marshall, Dave McKenzie, Quentin Morris, Wangechi Mutu, Chris Ofili, William Pope.L, Martin Puryear, Faith Ringgold, Nadine Robinson, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Lezley Saar, Malick Sidibé, Lorna Simpson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Hank Willis Thomas, James Vanderzee, William Villalongo, Kara Walker, Larry Walker, Jack Whitten, Deborah Willis, Fred Wilson, Paula Wilson, Hale Woodruff.
NEW YORK (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem.
Harlemworld: Metropolis as Metaphor.
January 6-April 4, 2004.
120 pp. exhib. cat., 230 illus. (197 in color.) Curated by Thelma Golden; texts by Golden, Greg Tate, Cheryl Finley, Mable O. Wilson, and Susan Cahan. Group exhibition of work by 18 emerging African American architects and selected photographers. Each architect has designed 2 double page spreads for the catalogue. Photographers: James VanDerZee, Alice Attie, Kira Lynn Harris and Adler Guerrier. Architects include: Nathaniel Belcher/ Steven Slaughter, Milton S.F. Curry, J. Yolande Daniels, Felicia Davis, Darell Wayne Fields, Zevilla Jackson Preston, Olalekan B. Jeyifous, Coleman A. Jordan, Gordon Kipping, Leyden Lewis, Ronald L. Norsworthy, II, Todd Palmer, Emmanuel Pratt, Shawn Rickenbacker, Amanda Williams, Wilbur Williams, William Williams, Karen Felicia Sanders, et al. 4to (31 x 23 cm.), wraps.
NEW YORK (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem.
hrlm: pictures.
July 20-October 23, 2005.
Group exhibition of more than 50 photographs by 31 artists (not all of African descent). Curated by Rashida Bumbray, Ali Evans and Christine Y. Kim. Artists in the exhibition included: Jules Allen, Alice Attie, damali ayo, Randal Wilcox, Dawoud Bey, Terry E. Boddie, Jonathan Calm, Christine Camila, Karen Davis, h. eugene foster, Adler Guerrier, Eric Henderson, Mikki K. Harris, Leslie Hewitt, Brooke Jacobs, Robert W. Johnson, Ray A. Llanos, Melinda Lewis, Dave McKenzie, Gordon Parks, Carlos Perez, Katherin Schmidiger, Greg Tate, Constance Williams, and James VanDerZee.
NEW YORK (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem.
Inside the Collection: Interiors from the Studio Museum.
July 15-October 24, 2010.
Group exhibition featuring a selection of photographs in the Museum’s holdings that focus on indoor scenes and spaces. Included: James Vanderzee, Adia Millett, Frank Stewart and Carrie Mae Weems.
NEW YORK (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem.
Red, Black, and Green.
July 12-September 16, 2001.
Group exhibition. Curated by Thelma Golden. Included: Benny Andrews, Dawoud Bey, Chakaia Booker, Ed Clark, Gregory Coates, Deborah Grant, David Hammons, Jacob Lawrence, Glenn Ligon, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Lorna Simpson, James Vanderzee, Kara Walker, et al. [Review: Holland Cotter, "Invoking Marcus Garvey While Looking Ahead," NYT, August 24, 2001.]
NEW YORK (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem.
Self-Portrait.
March 26-April 27, 1980.
Unpag. (16 pp.) exhib. cat., 9 illus. (1 in color), biogs. Includes 50 self-portrait photographs by 32 photographers. Pref. by Mary Schmidt Campbell; texts by Patricia Mornan Bell and Richard Muhlberger. Group exhibition includes: Salimah Ali, Jules Allen, Anthony Barboza, Hugh Bell, Dawoud Bey, Michael Britto, Adger W. Cowans, Pat Davis, Daniel Dawson, Mel Dixon, Al Fennar, Bob Fletcher, Roland Freeman, Vince Frye, Al Green, Gail Hansberry, Leroy Henderson, John Burke Horne, Roy Lewis, Fern Logan, Jeanne Moutoussamy, Marilyn Nance, Larry Neilson, Gordon Parks, John Pinderhughes, Coreen Simpson, Beuford Smith, Ming Smith, Chuck Stewart, James Vanderzee, E. Lee White, and Leroy Woodson. [Traveled to: Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, August 17-October 5, 1980.] Sq. 8vo (20 x 20 cm), stapled wraps. First ed.
NEW YORK (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem.
Who, What, Wear: Selections from the Permanent Collection.
November 10, 2011-May 27, 2012.
Group exhibition. Focus on evolutions in style - self-expression, fashion, artistic technique and societal ideals of beauty. Included: Dawoud Bey, Seydou Keita, Malick Sidibé, Hank Willis Thomas, James Vanderzee, Kehinde Wiley, et al.
NEWARK (DE). Mechanical Hall, University of Delaware.
Forget Me Not: Photography between Poetry and Politics.
February 11-May 17, 2015.
Group exhibition featuring work by artists active from the 1840s to the present. Included: Augustus Washington, Gallo W. Cheston, P.H. Polk, James VanDerZee, Roy DeCarava, Bert Andrews, Carrie Mae Weems, Ming Smith, William Anderson, Wendel White, Colette Gaiter and Clarissa Sligh.
NEWARK (DE). University Museum, University of Delaware.
A Century of African American Art: The Paul R. Jones Collection.
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004.
259 pp., mostly color plates throughout, artists' biogs., bibliog., notes on contributors, index. Ed. by Amalia Amaki, curator of the collection, with additional texts by Sharon Pruitt, Ann E. Gibson, Ikem Stanley Okoye, Marcia R. Cohen and Diana McClintock, Carla Williams, Winston Kennedy. Artists include: Jim Alexander, William J. Anderson, Benny Andrews, Heman Kofi Bailey, Romare Bearden, Camille Billops, Frank Bowling, Benjamin Britt, Selma Burke, Margaret Burroughs, Doughba H. Caranda-Martin, Nanette Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, David Driskell, Michael Ellison, John W. Feagin, Reginald Gammon, Samuel Guilford, Earl J. Hooks, Margo Humphrey, Bill Hutson, Amos "Ashanti" Johnson, P.R. Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Samella Lewis, James Little, Lionel Lofton, Edward Loper, Aimee Miller, Jimmie Lee Mosely, Ming Smith Murray, Ayokunle Odeleye, Harper T. Phillips, Howardena Pindell, Prentice H. Polk, Alvin Smith, Cedric Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Leo Twiggs, James Vanderzee, Carrie Mae Weems, Charles White, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff, et al. [Traveled to numerous venues including: Spelman College Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, September 8-December 10, 2005; Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA, September 7-December 29, 2007.] 4to (29 cm.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
OKLAHOMA CITY (OK). Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
Harlem Renaissance.
February 5-April 19, 2009.
156 pp. exhib. cat. Included more than 100 paintings, sculptures, and photographs by artists such as: James Lattimore Allen, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Archibald J. Motley Jr., Faith RInggold, James Vanderzee, Hale Woodruff, and others. 4to (31 x 23 cm.), wraps.
OTFINOSKI, STEVEN.
African Americans in the Visual Arts.
New York: Facts on File, 2003.
x, 262 pp., 50 b&w photos of some artists, brief 2-page bibliog., index. Part of the A to Z of African Americans series. Lists over 170 visual artists (including 18 photographers) and 22 filmmakers with brief biographies and token bibliog. for each. An erratic selection, far less complete than the St. James Guide to Black Artists, and inexplicably leaving out over 250 artists of obvious historic importance (for ex.: Edwin A. Harleston, Grafton Tyler Brown, Charles Ethan Porter, Wadsworth Jarrell, John Outterbridge, Noah Purifoy, William Majors, Camille Billops, Whitfield Lovell, Al Loving, Ed Clark, John T. Scott, Maren Hassinger, Lorraine O'Grady, Winnie Owens-Hart, Adrienne Hoard, Oliver Jackson, Frederick Eversley, Glenn Ligon, Sam Middleton, Ed Hamilton, Pat Ward Williams, etc. and omitting a generation of well-established contemporary artists who emerged during the late 70s-90s. [Note: a newly revised edition of 2012 (ten pages longer) has not rendered it a worthy reference work on this topic.] 8vo (25 com), laminated papered boards.
PAINTER, NELL IRVIN.
Creating Black Americans: African American History and its Meanings 1619 to the Present.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
xvi, 458 pp., 148 illus. (110 in color), 4 maps, bibliog., index. Valuable for its images. A historical and cultural narrative that stretches from Africa to hip-hop with unusual attention paid to visual work. However, Painter is a historian not an art historian and therefore deals with the art in summary fashion without discussion of its layered imagery. Artists named include: Sylvia Abernathy, Tina Allen, Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Xenobia Bailey, James Presley Ball, Edward M. Bannister, Amiri Baraka (as writer), Richmond Barthé, Jean-Michel Basquiat, C. M. Battey, Romare Bearden, Arthur P. Bedou, John T. Biggers, Camille Billops, Carroll Parrott Blue, Leslie Bolling, Chakaia Booker, Cloyd Boykin, Kay Brown, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Dana Chandler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Chris Clark, Claude Clarke, Houston Conwill, Brett Cook-Dizney, Allan Rohan Crite, Willis "Bing" Davis, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, David C. Driskell, Robert S. Duncanson, Melvin Edwards, Tom Feelings, Roland L. Freeman, Meta Warrick Fuller, Paul Goodnight, Robert Haggins, Ed Hamilton, David Hammons, Inge Hardison, Edwin A. Harleston, Isaac Hathaway, Palmer Hayden, Kyra Hicks, Freida High-Tesfagiogis, Paul Houzell, Julien Hudson, Margo Humphrey, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Wadsworth Jarrell, Joshua Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, William H. Johnson, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Jacob Lawrence, Viola Burley Leak, Charlotte Lewis, Edmonia Lewis, Samella Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Estella Conwill Majozo, Valerie Maynard, Aaron McGruder, Lev Mills, Scipio Moorhead, Archibald Motley, Jr., Howardena Pindell, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, Harriet Powers, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, JoeSam, Melvin Samuels (NOC 167), O.L. Samuels, Augusta Savage, Joyce J. Scott, Herbert Singleton, Albert A. Smith, Morgan & Marvin Smith, Vincent Smith, Nelson Stevens, Ann Tanksley, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Dox Thrash, James Vanderzee, Kara Walker, Paul Wandless, Augustus Washington, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Pat Ward Williams, Hale Woodruff, Purvis Young. 8vo (9.4 x 8.2 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
PARIS (France). Pavilion des Arts.
Black Photography in America.
1988.
Unpag. (36 pp.) text by Alain Dister, 36 b&w photos, mostly full-page, by Gordon Parks (12 images), James VanderZee (8 images), Roy DeCarava (12 images), and Coreen Simpson (4 images). Dual lang. text in French/English. The exhibition was part of the 1988 Mois de la Photo, Paris. 4to, printed card covers. First ed.
PATTON, SHARON F.
African American Art.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
319 pp., illus. throughout in color and b&w, notes, list of illus., timeline, index. Excellent new survey covering approximately 108 artists from Scipio Moorhead to Dawoud Bey, including 22 women artists: Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Malcolm Bailey, James Presley Ball, Henry (Mike) Bannarn, Edward Bannister, Dutreuil Barjon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, Peter Bentzon, Dawoud Bey, Bob Blackburn, Grafton Tyler Brown, Vivian E. Browne, Jacob (Jacoba) Bunel, Elizabeth Catlett, Dana Chandler, Ed Clark, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Houston Conwill, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Dave (the Potter), Thomas Day, Beauford Delaney, Jean-Louis Dolliole, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, Robert M. Douglass, Robert S. Duncanson, William Edmondson, Melvin Edwards, Minnie Evans. Frederick J. Eversley, John Frances, Meta Fuller, Reginald Gammon, Herbert Gentry, Sam Gilliam, Célestin Glapion, Thomas Goss, Jr., Henry Gudgell, David Hammons, James Hampton, Maren Hassinger, Palmer Hayden, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Richard Hunt, Bill Hutson, Clifford L. Jackson, May Howard Jackson, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Oliver Jackson, Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Daniel Larue Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Ben Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Jules Lion, Tom Lloyd, Al Loving, Richard Mayhew, Sam Middleton, Scipio Moorhead, Keith Morrison, Archibald Motley, Ademola Olugebefola, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Howardena Pindell, Adrian Piper, Rose Piper, Horace Pippin, Harriet Powers, Noah Purifoy, Martin Puryear, Patrick Reason, Faith Ringgold, Jean Rousseau, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, Augusta Savage, Addison Scurlock, Lorna Simpson, Merton D. Simpson, Vincent D. Smith, Thelma Streat, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Dox Thrash, James Vanderzee, Christian Walker, William W. Walker, Eugene Warburg, Charles White, Pat Ward Williams, Walter J. Williams, Hale Woodruff. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed
PHILADELPHIA (PA). Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Represent: 200 Years of African American Art.
January 10-April 5, 2015.
224 pp. exhib. cat, color illus. Intro. Richard J. Powell, thematic essays by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw. Highlights over 150 objects in the museum's collection, whereas the exhibition packed into an overly small room included only 75 works by a meager 50 artists, including: Moses Williams, Dawoud Bey, Moe Brooker, Samuel J. Brown, Donald Camp, Elizabeth Catlett, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Aaron Douglas, John Dowell, Jr., David Drake (Dave the Potter), Sam Gilliam, Barkley L. Hendricks, Peter Hill, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Glenn Ligon, Odili Donald Odita, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Gordon Parks, Jerry Pinkney, Horace Pippin, Martin Puryear, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Joyce J. Scott, Lorna Simpson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Dox Thrash, Bill Traylor, James Vanderzee, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, and John Wilson. [Review: Philip Kennicott, The Washington Post, January 14, 2015;] 4to (12.2 x 9.8 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
PHILADELPHIA (PA). Sande Webster Gallery.
Day and Night in Black & White.
August, 2004.
Group photo exhibition. Included: Anthony Barboza, Raymond Holman, Ron Tarver, Tony Ward, James Vanderzee.
PHILADELPHIA (PA). Sande Webster Gallery.
Storytellers: An Exploration of Photojournalism.
June 1-26, 2007.
Group exhibition of work by 12 photographers. Included: Raymond Holman, Ron Tarver, James Vanderzee, et al.
PLOSKI, HARRY A., ed.
The Negro Almanac: A Reference Work on the Afro-American.
New York: A Wiley-Interscience Publication, 1983.
1550 pp. Includes essay on The Black Artist. Gylbert Coker cited as art consultant. Many misspellings. Artists mentioned include: Scipio Moorhead, James Porter, Eugene Warburg, Robert Duncanson, William H. Simpson, Edward M. Bannister, Joshua Johnston, Robert Douglass, David Bowser, Edmonia Lewis, Henry O. Tanner, William Harper, Dorothy Fannin, Meta Fuller, Archibald Motley, Palmer Hayden. Malvin Gray Johnson, Laura Waring, William E. Scott, Hughie Lee-Smith, Zell Ingram, Charles Sallee, Elmer Brown, William E. Smith, George Hulsinger, James Herring, Aaron Douglas, Augusta Savage, Charles Alston, Hale Woodruff, Charles White, Richmond Barthé, Malvin Gray Johnson, Henry Bannarn, Florence Purviance, Dox Thrash, Robert Blackburn, James Denmark, Dindga McCannon, Frank Wimberly, Ann Tanksley, Don Robertson, Lloyd Toones, Lois Jones, Jo Butler, Robert Threadgill, Faith Ringgold, Romare Bearden, Ernest Crichlow, Norman Lewis, Jimmy Mosley, Samella Lewis, F. L. Spellmon, Phillip Hampton, Venola Seals Jennings, Juanita Moulon, Eugene Jesse Brown, Hayward Oubré, Ademola Olugebefola, Otto Neals, Kay Brown, Jean Taylor, Genesis II, David Hammons, Senga Nengudi, Randy Williams, Howardena Pindell, Edward Spriggs, Beauford Delaney, James Vanderzee, Melvin Edwards, Vincent Smith, Alonzo Davis, Dale Davis, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Gordon Parks, Rex Goreleigh, William McBride, Jr., Eldzier Cortor, James Gittens, Joan Maynard. Kynaston McShine, Coker, Cheryl McClenney, Faith Weaver, Randy Williams, Florence Hardney, Dolores Wright, Cathy Chance, Lowery Sims, Richard Hunt, Roland Ayers, Frank Bowling, Marvin Brown, Walter Cade, Catti, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Manuel Hughes, Barkley Hendricks, Juan Logan, Alvin Loving, Tom Lloyd, Lloyd McNeill, Algernon Miller, Norma Morgan, Mavis Pusey, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, Thomas Sills, Thelma Johnson Streat, Alma Thomas, John Torres, Todd Williams, Mahler Ryder, Minnie Evans, Jacob Lawrence, Haywood Rivers, Edward Clark, Camille Billops, Joe Overstreet, Louise Parks, Herbert Gentry, William Edmondson, James Parks, Marion Perkins, Bernard Goss, Reginald Gammon, Emma Amos, Charles Alston, Richard Mayhew, Al Hollingsworth, Calvin Douglass, Merton Simpson, Earl Miller, Felrath Hines, Perry Ferguson, William Majors, James Yeargans. Ruth Waddy; Evangeline Montgomery, Jeff Donaldson, Wadsworth Jarrell, Gerald Williams, Carolyn Lawrence, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Frank Smith, Howard Mallory, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Nelson Stevens, Vivian Browne, Kay Brown, William Harper, Isaac Hathaway, Julien Hudson, May Howard Jackson, Edmonia Lewis, Patrick Reason, William Simpson, A. B. Wilson, William Braxton, Allan Crite, Alice Gafford, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, William Artis, John Biggers, William Carter, Joseph Delaney, Elton Fax, Frederick Flemister, Ronald Joseph, Horace Pippin, Charles Sebree, Bill Traylor, Ellis Wilson, John Wilson, Starmanda Bullock, Dana Chandler, Raven Chanticleer, Roy DeCarava, John Dowell, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, Daniel Johnson, Geraldine McCullough, Earl Miller, Clarence Morgan, Norma Morgan, Skunder Boghossian, Bob Thompson, Clifton Webb, Jack Whitten. 4to, cloth. 4th ed.
POWELL, RICHARD J.
Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century.
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997.
256 pp., 176 illus. (including 31 in color), biog. notes, list of illus., bibliog. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed.
POWELL, RICHARD J.
Black Art: A Cultural History.
London: Thames & Hudson, 2002.
272 pp., 192 illus. including 39 in color, biog. notes, list of illus., index. Revised and slightly enlarged from 1997 edition. 8vo, wraps. Second Revised ed.
POWELL, RICHARD J.
Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
292 pp., 116 illus. (43 in color), notes, bibliog., index. Substantial chapter devoted to Barkley L. Hendricks; discussion of the self-portrait photographs of Lyle Ashton Harris and Renée Cox; extensive discussion of African American fashion model Donyale Luna, and brief mention of nearly 70 other African and African American artists. 8vo (25 x 23 cm.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
PROVIDENCE (RI). Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.
A Century of Black Photographers, 1840-1960.
March 31-May 8, 1983.
192 pp., 150 illus., biogs., bibliog. Includes a list of photographers who were not exhibited (listed by state). Curated by Valencia Hollins Coar. Texts: "Black Photography: Contexts For Evolution" by Deborah J. Johnson; "Historical Consciousness and Photographic Moment" by Michael R. Winston; "Photography And Afro-Amemrican History" by Angela Davis. [Traveled to six other venues including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Newark Museum, and ending at the HIgh Museum, Atlanta, GA, June 29- August 26, 1984.] [Review: C. Gerald Fraser, "A Century of Black Photographers," NYT, March 2, 1984.] Included in the exhibition: James Presley Ball, Sr., J.P. Ball & Son, Wallace Goodridge, the Goodridge Brothers, Harry Shepherd, Herbert Collins, Cornelius M. Battey, Arthur P. Bedou, Leonard G. Hyman, Paul Poole, James A. Vanderzee, Prentiss H. Polk, Harvey James Lewis, Robert H. McNeill, Reverend Lonzie Odie Taylor, Allen E. Cole, Milton J. Hinton, Gordon Parks, Griffith J. Davis, Richard Saunders, Carroll T. Maynard, Clifton George Cabell, Robert S. Scurlock, George H. Scurlock, Moneta J. Sleet, Matthew Lewis, Jr., Roy DeCarava. Supplementary list of photographers not included in the exhibition: James N. Bird, D. J. McCaw, J. D. Bell, Frank Herman Cloud, H. D. Grifith, E. M. Colburne, George Hunter, et al. 4to, wraps.
RICHMOND (VA). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
GENERATIONS: African-American Art in the VMFA Collection.
June 21-November 30, 2003.
Group exhibition. Romare Bearden, Roy DeCarava, Frederick Eversley, Richard Hunt, A. B. Jackson, Jacob Lawrence, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, James VanDerZee, Carrie Mae Weems, and local artists Charles Baker, Alice Ivory, Walter A. Simon, and Benjamin Wigfall and a further group of artists called "Virginia Selections": Willie Cole, Sam Gilliam, Gregory A. Henry, Clayton Singleton, Renée Stout and Ken Wright.
RICHMOND (VA). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Labor and Leisure: Works by African-American Artists from the Permanent Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
February 4-May 3, 2009.
Group exhibition of work from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Included: Romare Bearden, Leslie Garland Bolling, Willie Cole, Jacob Lawrence, Lorna Simpson, James VanDerZee, and Charles White.
RIGGS, THOMAS, ed.
St. James Guide to Black Artists.
Detroit: St. James Press, 1997.
xxiv, 625 pp., illus. A highly selective reference work listing only approximately 400 artists of African descent worldwide (including around 300 African American artists, approximately 20% women artists.) Illus. of work or photos of many artists, brief descriptive texts by well-known scholars, with selected list of exhibitions for each, plus many artists' statements. A noticeable absence of many artists under 45, most photographers, and many women artists. Far fewer artists listed here than in Igoe, Cederholm, or other sources. Stout 4to (29 cm.), laminated yellow papered boards. First ed.
SAINT LEON, PASCAL MARTIN, N'GONE FALL, and JEAN LOUP PIVIN, eds.
Anthology of African and Indian Ocean Photography/Anthologie de la photographie africaine et de l'océan indien.
Paris: Revue Noire Editions, 1998.
432 pp., 500 b&w and color illus., biogs., bibliog., including 200 portfolios of work by African and African Diasporic photographers, biogs., bibliog. Reference to the history of Sub-Saharan photography: the precursors, studio photographers, official agerncies, independents to the contemporary global diaspora. Pub. in separate English, French and Portuguese editions. Texts by Elikia M'Bokolo, Agnes de Gouvian Saint-Cyr, Jean Loup Pivin, Vera Viditz-Ward, Philippe David, Frederic Chapuis, Albert Chong, Aminata Sow Fall, Alexander Joe, John Mauluka, Santu Mofokeng, Jean-Francois Werner, Erika Nimis, Richard Pankhurst and Denis Gerard, Simon Njami, Sebastien Porte, Santu Mofokeng, Tobias Wendt, Guy Hersant, Tierno Monenembo, Michele Rakotoson, et al. Photographers include: Alex Agbaglo Acolatse, the Aguilar brothers, Joseph Moise Agbodjelou, Ajamu, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Daniel Affoumo Amichia, Cornelius Yao Augusti Azaglo, Phillip Kwame Apagya, John Badchu, Rose-Ann Marie Bailey, Albert Chong, David Damoison, J. P. Decker, Jean Depara, Doudou Diop, Aloune Diouf, Nelson Ankruma Event, Samuel Fosso, Antoine Freitas, Meissa Gaye, Mix Gueye, Deale, Scholtz Studio, Mama Casset, Studio 3Z, Mountaga Dembele, Felix Diallo, the Boyadjans, Houssein Assamo, Abdourahman Issa, Amin Mahamoud Ahmed, Ramadan Ali Ahmed, Alioune Bâ, Stella Fakiyesi, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Rene Pena Gonzales, Francis K. Honny, Serge Emmanuel Jongue, Zaccharia Kabe, Kenneth Kamau, Dorris Haron Kasco, Seydou Keita, Alf Kumalo, John Kiyaya, Philippe Koudjina, Dionysius Leomy, Alfonso Lisk-Caren, Peter Magubane, Boubacar Mandémory, John Mauluka, Robert H. McNeill, Pierrot Men, Santu Mofokeng, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Eustaquio Neves, Antonio Ole, F.F. Olympio, Jose Ondoa, Carla Osorio, Gordon Parks, Rene Pena, Vantoen Pereira, Jr., Abderramane Sakaly, Rene-Paul Savignan, Bouna Medoune Seye, Malick Sidibé, Penny Siopis, Doro Sy, Adama Sylla, HF Fine Studio, Patrice Felix Tchicaya, Andrew Tshabangu, James Vanderzee, David Zapparoli, and dozens more. 4to (32 x 24.5 cm.), cloth with embossed lettering, dust jacket. First ed.
SALEM (MA). Peabody Essex Museum.
In Conversation: Modern African American Art.
June 1-September 2, 2013.
Group exhibition of over 100 paintings, sculptures and photographs by 43 artists, drawn from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection. Included: Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, John T. Biggers, Frederick T. Brown, Allan Rohan Crite, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Thornton Dial, Frederick Eversley, Roland Freeman, Sam Gilliam, Tony Gleaton, Earlie Hudnall, Jr., Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Robert McNeill, Marilyn Nance, Gordon Parks, Sr., Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, and James Vanderzee, among many others.
SAN ANTONIO (TX). San Antonio Museum of Art.
The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art.
February 4-April 3, 1994.
68 pp. exhib. cat., 59 illus., 23 color plates, checklist of 124 works, bibliog. Essays by Gylbert Coker and Corinne Jennings. Artists in the exhibition: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, John W. Banks, Edward Bannister, Basquiat, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Grafton Tyler Brown, Samuel J. Brown, William Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Sr., John Coleman, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Crite, Mary R. Daniel, Alonzo Davis, Joseph Delaney, Thornton Dial, Aaron Douglas, Robert S. Duncanson, Minnie Evans, William Farrow, Rex Goreleigh, John W. Hardrick, William A. Harper, Palmer Hayden, Clementine Hunter, J. Johnson, William H. Johnson, Frank Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Samella Lewis, Lionel Lofton, Edward L. Loper, Ulysses Marshall, Sam Middleton, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Ike Morgan, Emma Lee Moss, Archibald Motley, Marion Perkins, Charles Ethan Porter, Patrick Reason, Charles Sallee, Raymond Saunders, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, William E. Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Dox Thrash, William Tolliver, Bill Traylor, James Vanderzee, Laura Wheeler Waring, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Ellis Wilson, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff, and Joseph Yoakum. [Traveled to: El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN.] 4to (28 cm.), pictorial wraps. First ed.
SAN FRANCISCO (CA and NEW YORK (NY)). Jenkins Johnson Gallery.
Connections.
February 5-March 28, 2009.
Two-venue bi-coastal exhibition. Co-curated by Karen Jenkins-Johnson and Lisa Henry. Group exhibition. Included: John Bankston, Romare Bearden, Sheila Pree Bright, Elizabeth Catlett, Robert Colescott, Gerald Cyrus, Kira Lynn Harris, Deborah Jack, Jacob Lawrence, Sonya Lawyer, Glenn Ligon, Felicia Megginson, Gordon Parks, Lorna Simpson, Hank Willis Thomas, James VanDerZee, Carrie Mae Weems, Carla Williams & Deirdre Visser, Philemona Williamson, John Wilson, Lauren Woods.
SANTA MONICA (CA). M. Hanks Gallery.
Masterpieces of African American Art: An African American Perspective.
January 16-March 29, 2007.
58 pp. exhib. cat., color illus., checklist of work by 25 artists, cbiogs. Iincludes a talk by Charles White given in 1971 to an art class at San Jose State Uniuversity taught by Marie Calloway, and an interview with Charmaine Jefferson, Includes: Includes: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Phoebe Beasley, Howard Bingham, Roland Charles, Meta Warrick Fuller, Palmer Hayden, Lois Mailou Jones, Michael Massenburg, Sam Middleton, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Temisan Okpaku, Johnny Otis, William Pajaud, Augusta Savage, Frank Stewart, Alma Thomas, Mildred Thompson, William Tolliver, James Vanderzee, Charles White, Walter J. Williams. 8vo (23 cm.), wraps. First ed.
SAVANNAH (GA). Beach Institute African American Cultural Center.
Eclectic Lens: Photographs from The Paul Jones Collection.
1991.
Includes: P.H. Polk, James VanDerZee, et al.
SCHOENER, ALLON, ed.
Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America 1900-1968.
New York: Random House and Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968.
255 (1), illus. Pref. by Thomas P. F. Hoving; the controversial preface by Candice Van Ellison (a 17-yr. old high school student), and foreword by Allon Schoener. Originally an exhibition mounted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this important compendium of over 500 photos and press clippings remains a useful photographic reference to the cultural and political history of the Harlem community. The 1979 edition of the catalogue omits the Hoving, Van Ellison, and original Schoener foreword, replacing them with a new Schoener foreword and a foreword by Black scholar Nathan Irvin Huggins. The 1995 edition reprints the original texts from 1968 with a new foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Included among the photographs selected in this 'documentary' exhibition were works by Gordon Parks, Frank Stewart, James Vanderzee, Lloyd Yearwood. The exhibition sparked the formation of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (B.E.C.C.), founded on January 9, 1969 to protest the exhibition, and maintain a picket line in front of the Metropolitan Museum. Protesters included: Benny Andrews, Raymond Andrews, Romare Bearden, Barbara Carter, Roy DeCarava, Calvin Douglass, Reginald Gammon, Leroy Henderson, Felrath Hines, Cliff Joseph, Norman Lewis, Richard Mayhew, Raymond Saunders, Vivian E. Browne, Russ Thompson, Bob Carter, Bill Durante, Mahler Ryder, curator Henri Ghent, activist Joan Sandler, and Ed Taylor, joined by white artists Alice Neel, John Dobbs, and Mel Roman. [Reviews: John Canaday, "Getting Harlem Off My Mind," NYT, January 12, 1969:D25; Grace Glueck, "Art: 'Harlem on My Mind' in Slides, Tapes and Photos," NYT, January 17, 1969:28; Cathy Aldredge, "Harlem on My Mind: A Boxed-In Feeling," New York Amsterdam News, February 1, 1969:38; and "Letters to the Editor of The Times," NYT, January 22, 1969:46; January 29, 1969:40; and February 1, 1969: 28; Benny Andrews, "The B.E.C.C. Black Emergency Cultural Coalition," Arts Magazine, Summer 1970:18-19 (list of protesters.) Among the post-exhibition analyses, see: Steven C. Dubin, Chapter 2 "Crossing 125th Street: Harlem on My Mind Revisited," in Displays of Power: Controversy in the American Museum from the Enola Gay to Sensation. NYU Press, 2001:18ff; see also an important later scholarly analysis: Bridget R. Cooks, "Black Art and Activism," American Studies, 48:1 (Spring 2007): 5-40. On the web at: https://journals.ku.edu/index.php/amerstud/article/viewFile/3141/3898.].] 4to (28 x 22 cm.), laminated boards, d.j. First ed.
SCOTTSDALE (AZ). Museum of Contemporary Art.
HairStories.
October 3, 2003-January 4, 2004.
64 pp., 24 color plates, 2 b&w historical photos, biogs., exhib. Checklist, bibliog. Texts by Kim Curry-Evans, Dr. Neal A. Lester. Includes: Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Radcliffe Bailey, Dawoud Bey, Milton Bowens, Mark Bradford, Sonya Clark, Tina Dunkley, Bill Gaskins, Kojo Griffin, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Jacob Lawrence, Cathleen Lewis, Stephen Marc, Kerry James Marshall, Beverly McIver, Kori Newkirk, Gordon Parks, Nadine Robinson, Alison Saar, Lorna Simpson, Joe Willie Smith, James Vanderzee, Cynthia Wiggins, Kehinde Wiley, Deborah Willis. [Traveled to: Clark Atlanta University Galleries, Atlanta, GA, February 1-April 10, 2004; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, May 4-July 3, 2004; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, January-March, 2005; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA April 16-June 19, 2005; Forty Acres Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, June-August, 2005; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, July 9-September 11, 2005.] 4to, wraps. First ed.
SHEPHERD, ROBERT D., ed.
Grace Abounding: The Core Knowledge Anthology of African-American Literature, Music, and Art.
Charlottesville (VA): Core Knowledge Foundation, 2006.
910 pp., illus. A neo-conservative multi-cultural add-on. Designed for homeschoolers and teachers of Grades 4-10 with lesson plans, tests and answer keys, not priced as affordable text for students. Said to provide "insight into every facet of the African-American literary and arts tradition, tracing its development from African roots, through Emancipation, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s, all the way to the emergent voices of the twenty-first century." 36 artists are included, each with biog. blurb, illus., brief commentary on illus., several sample questions. includes: Charles Alston, William Artis, Edward M. Bannister, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Frederick Brown, Hilda Wilkinson Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, Irene Clark, Beauford Delaney, Louis J. Delsarte, Richard Dempsey, Aaron Douglas, David C. Driskell, Sam Gilliam, Rex Goreleigh, James Hampton, Sargent Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Edmonia Lewis, Hughie Lee-Smith, Richard Mayhew, Lev T. Mills. Scipio Moorhead, Gordon Parks, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, Charles Sallee, Augusta Savage, William E. Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma W. Thomas, James Vanderzee, Charles White, Hale Woodruff. 2nd ed. with CD
SOUTHAMPTON (NY). Parrish Art Museum.
An American Legacy: Art from the Studio Museum.
March 23-June 1, 2003.
Group exhibition of 85 works Curated by Thelma Golden. Included: James Vanderzee, Terry Adkins, Charles Alston, Dawoud Bey, Willie Cole, Beauford Delaney, Melvin Edwards, David Hammons, Norman Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Al Loving, Kerry James Marshall, Sam Middleton, Wangechi Mutu, Odili Donald Odita, Martin Puryear, Betye Saar, Alma Thomas, Kara Walker, Nari Ward, Jack Whitten, et al. [Review: Helen A. Harrison "Out of Harlem Comes a Vibrant Chronicle," NYT, April 27, 2003.]
ST LOUIS (MO). St. Louis Public Library.
An index to Black American artists.
St. Louis: St. Louis Public Library, 1972.
50 pp. Also includes art historians such as Henri Ghent. In this database, only artists are cross-referenced. 4to (28 cm.)
ST. LOUIS (MO). St. Louis Art Museum.
African American Art: Photographs from the Collection.
April 15-July 24, 2005.
Group exhibition featuring 10 photographs acquired since 1988. Curated by Andrew Walker. Included: D. Michael Cheers, Roy DeCarava, David Lee, Stephen Marc, Gordon Parks, Moneta Sleet Jr., James Van der Zee, and Carrie Mae Weems.
THAGGERT, MIRIAM.
Images of Black Modernism: verbal and visual strategies of the Harlem Renaissance.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
xii, 256 pp., illus., bibliog., index. Contents: Introduction: a crisis in Black art and literature; Tone pictures: James Weldon Johnson's experiment in dialect; Reading the body: fashion, etiquette, and narrative in Nella Larsen's Passing; Surface effects: satire, race, and language in George Schuyler’s Black no more and "the Negro-art hokum;" Collectin’ Van Vechten: the narrative and visual collections of Carl Van Vechten; A photographic language: camera lucida and the photography of James Van Der Zee and Aaron Siskind; Conclusion. remembering Harlem: Wallace Thurman, Alain Locke, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s "Harlem" exhibition. Includes passing mention of Josephine Baker, Romare Bearden, Earl Lewis, Reginald McGhee. 8vo (9.2 x 6.5 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
VANDERZEE, JAMES, OWEN DODSON and CAMILLE BILLOPS.
The Harlem Book of the Dead.
Dobbs Ferry: Morgan and Morgan, 1978.
85 pp. Foreword by Toni Morrison. A combination of poetry by Owen Dodson. photography by James Vanderzee and text by Camille Billops. A history of the spiritual meanings of death, funeral rites and burials in the proud Harlem community of the interwar years. Large 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed.
VIRGINIA BEACH (VA). Contemporary Art Center of Virginia.
GENERATIONS: African-American Art in the VMFA Collection.
January 19-March 12, 2006.
Group exhibition. Included: Charles Ewert Baker, Romare Bearden, Willie Cole, Roy DeCarava, Frederick Eversley, Sam Gilliam, Gregory A. Henry, Richard Hunt, Alice Ivory, Alexander Brooks Jackson, Jr., Jacob Lawrence, Alison Saar, Walter A. Simon, Clayton Singleton, Renée Stout, James Vanderzee, Carrie Mae Weems, Benjamin Wigfall, Ken Wright.
WASHINGTON (DC). American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond.
April 27-September 3, 2012.
256 pp. exhib. cat., color and b&w illus. Text by Richard J. Powell, with catalogue entries by Virginia Mecklenburg, Theresa Slowik and Maricia Battle. Curated by Virginia Mecklenburg. A selection of paintings, sculpture, prints, and photographs by forty-three black artists who explored the African American experience from the Harlem Renaissance through the Civil Rights era and the decades beyond. [Traveling to: Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, September 28, 2012-January 6, 2013; Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL, February 1-April 28, 2013; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, June 1-September 2, 2013; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, February 14-May 25, 2014; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, June 28-September 21, 2014; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, October 18, 2014-January 4, 2015.] 4to (12.3 x 10.3 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
WASHINGTON (DC). Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Celebrating the Legacy III: African American Art at the Corcoran.
January 5-February 25, 2002.
Group exhibition. Curated by Susan Badder. Exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, prints and photographs. Artists included: Joshua Johnson, Robert Duncanson, William Edmondson, Sargent Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Addison Scurlock, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, James Vanderzee.
WASHINGTON (DC). Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Selections from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell.
October 23, 2004-January 31, 2005.
208 pp. exhib. cat., 130 illus. (40 in color). Exhibition of 187 photographs, paintings, drawings, and sculptures from the holdings of Washington, D.C.-based collector Julia (Judy) Norrell. Foreword by Bill Clinton; texts by Philip Brookman, Merry Foresta, Julia J. Norrell, Paul Roth, Jacquelyn Days Serwer. Includes: Radcliffe Bailey, Beverly Buchanan, William H. Clarke, Roy DeCarava, David Driskell, Jonathan Green, Chester Higgins, Jr., Clementine Hunter, Rashid Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Willie Little, Whitfield Lovell, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Gordon Parks, Addison L. Scurlock, Fazal Sheikh, Malick Sidibé, Renée Stout, James Vanderzee, Carrie Mae Weems, Fred Wilson, and numerous white artists. [Traveled to North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, May 7-June 16, 2006.] 4to (30 cm.), cloth, d.j.
WASHINGTON (DC). Howard University Gallery of Art.
Mixing Metaphors: The Aesthetic, the Social and the Political in African American Art.
August 14-December 17, 2010.
Exhib. cat., illus. Group traveling exhibition. Curated by Deborah Willis - a selection from the Bank of America collection. 94 photographs, paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture and mixed media executed by 37 artists ranging from range from photographers Ernest C. Withers, Robert Sengstacke, Jamel Shabazz, Lorna Simpson, Chuck Stewart, Gordon Parks, Dawoud Bey, Carrie Mae Weems, and James VanDerZee to Henry Clay Anderson, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Willie Birch, Beverly Buchanan, Walter Cade, Kevin E. Cole, Robert Colescott, Allan Rohan Crite, Allan Edmunds, Lawrence Finney, Sam Gilliam, Earlie Hudnall, Margo Humphrey, Jacob Lawrence. Willie Little, Juan Logan, Whitfield Lovell, Julie Mehretu, Martin Puryear, Faith Ringgold, Mario A. Robinson, Raymond Saunders, Leo Twiggs, James W. Washington, William T. Williams, and Fred Wilson. [Traveled to: The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum, Atlanta, GA, March 19-July 31, 2011.]
WASHINGTON (DC). Library of Congress.
The African American Odyssey: Fine Prints and Photographs by 20th Century African American Artists.
February, 1998.
Exhib. cat. Group exhibition. Included: Romare Bearden, Bob Blackburn, Elizabeth Catlett, Roland Freeman, Sam William, Chester Higgins Jr., Jacob Lawrence, Martin Puryear, Raymond Steth and James Van Der Zee.
WASHINGTON (DC). National Museum of American Art.
The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s.
April 28-August 13, 1990.
Exhib. cat., illus. Group exhibition. Included: Lorna Simpson, Albert Chong, James Vanderzee.
WASHINGTON (DC). National Portrait Gallery.
Let Your Motto be Resistance: African American Portraits.
October 19, 2007-March 2, 2008.
184 pp., 98 full-page b&w illus., notes, biographies of subjects, index of photographers. Intro. by Lonnie G. Bunche, III; texts by Deborah Willis, Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, Cheryl Finley; poems by Elizabeth Alexander. Spectacular exhibition of 98 photographic portraits of famous African American subjects from Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth to Wynton Marsalis, including images of nine visual artists: Edward M. Bannister, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, Felrath Hines, Jacob Lawrence, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Gordon Parks, Horace Pippin. Curated by Deborah Willis. Work by 71 photographers including approximately a dozen images taken by African American photographers: Anthony Barboza, Arthur P. Bedou, Gordon Parks, Prentiss H. Polk, Addison L. Scurlock, James Vanderzee, Milton Williams. [The inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC. An abbreviated version of the exhibition is to be consitituted as a traveling show.]
WASHINGTON (DC). Sixth District Police Headquarters.
The Evans-Tibbs Collection: Selections from the Permanent Holdings. 19th and 20th Century American Art.
August 25-31, 1985.
Unpag., 18 b&w illus., checklist of 40 works by 41 artists. Text by Thurlow E. Tibbs, Jr. An exhibition sponsored by the Far East Community Services, Inc. and the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Artists included: Charles Alston, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Hilda Brown, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Mary Reed Daniel, Beauford Delaney, Louis Delsarte, Richard Dempsey, Aaron Douglas, David Driskell, Clementine Hunter, Joshua Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Gerald McCain, Lev Mills, Marion Perkins, Delilah Pierce, Patrick Reason, Betye Saar, William E. Scott, Addison Scurlock, Charles Sebree, Sharon Sutton, Henry O. Tanner, Alma W. Thomas, Bill Traylor, Curtis Tucker, Yvonne Tucker, James Vanderzee, Joyce Wellman, James L. Wells, Charles White, Hale Woodruff. 4to (28 cm.), wraps. First ed.
WASHINGTON (DC). Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond.
April 27-September 3, 2012.
252 pp. exhib. cat., illus. Text by Richard J. Powell, Virginia Mecklenburg, Theresa Slowik. Curated by Virginia Mecklenburg. Paintings, sculpture, prints, and photographs by 43 black artists, a total of 100 works drawn entirely from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection, including new acquisitions. [Will travel to: Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, September 28, 2012-January 6, 2013; Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL, February 1-April 28, 2013; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, June 1-September 2, 2013; Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM, September 29, 2013-January 19, 2014; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, February 14-May 25, 2014; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, June 28-September 21, 2014; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, October 18, 2014-January 4, 2015.] 4to (12 x 10 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
WASHINGTON (DC). Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
New York: Abrams, 2003.
112 pp., 52 color plates, bibliog., index. Text by Gwen Everett. Includes: Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John T. Biggers, Allan Rohan Crite, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Melvin Edwards, Roland Freeman, Sam Gilliam, Russell T. Gordon, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Norman Lewis, Whitfield Lovell, Robert McNeill, Gordon Parks, Horace Pippin, James Porter, Betye Saar, Renée Stout, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, James Vanderzee, Hale Woodruff, Purvis Young, et al. [Traveled to: New-York Historical Society, April 1-June 1, 2003, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, June 28-September 7, 2003, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, October 2-November 30, 2003, Cincinnati Art Museum, January 8-March 7, 2004, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, April 3-June 7, 2004, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, July 2-September 5, Long Beach Museum of Art, October 3-November 28, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, January 8-February 28, 2005, Spelman College Museum of Fine Arts, Atlanta, GA, March 24-May 13, 2005.] Sq. 4to (25 cm.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
WASHINGTON (DC). Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
America's Art: Smithsonian American Art Museum.
New York: Abrams, 2006.
323 pp., color and b&w illus. Text by Theresa J. Slowik, Eleanor Harvey and Elizabeth Broun. Includes: Joshua Johnson, Robert S. Duncanson, Edward M. Bannister, Romare Bearden, Joseph Delaney, James Hampton, Malvin Gray Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Augusta Savage, James A. Vanderzee, and Sam Gilliam (the only contemporary black artist.) 4to (13 x 10.5 in.), cloth, d.j.
WASHINGTON (DC). Tartt Gallery.
Taken: Photography and Death.
1989.
Exhib. cat. Group exhibition. Curated and text by Jo C. Tartt, Jr. Includes: James Vanderzee.
WATERVILLE (ME). Colby College Art Museum.
Freedom of Expression: Politics and Aesthetics in African American Art.
March 4-June 13, 2010.
Group exhibition. Included: Edward M. Bannister, Romare Bearden, Allan Rohan Crite, Beauford Delaney, David Driskell, Sam Gilliam, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jean Lacy, Jacob Lawrence, Glenn Ligon, Martin Puryear, Alison Saar, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Bob Thompson, James Vanderzee, Mr. Imagination, Charles White, Fred Wilson, Hale Woodruff.
WATSON, STEVEN.
The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930.
New York, Pantheon, 1995.
224 pp., approx. 95 b&w illus., notes, chronol., bibliog., index. Useful survey packed with information, but not about the visual arts. Includes: Aaron Douglas and Bruce Nugent; brief mention of Josephine Baker, Richmond Barthé and James Vanderzee. Oblong 8vo (9.6 x 9.6 in.), 1/4 cloth, d.j. First ed.
WELD, ALISON, ed.
Art by African Americans in the Collection of the New Jersey State Museum.
Trenton: The New Jersey State Museum, 1998.
159 pp., b&w and color illus., chronology of Black America (by Larry Greene), selected general bibliog., checklist of 170 works. Foreword by David C. Driskell; individual biographical texts (some with footnotes) and full-page color plate for each of the 60 artists by Alison Weld (curator), Sharon Patton, Margaret Rose Vendryes, Tritobia H. Benjamin, James Smalls, Carl E. Hazlewood, Calvin Reid, and Ronne Hartfield. Artists included in this selection: Uthman Ibn Abdur-Rahmen, Terry Adkins, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Anthony Barboza, Romare Bearden, Frank Bowling, Wendell T. Brooks, James Andrew Brown, Selma Burke, Willie Cole, Allan Rohan Crite, Victor Davson, Roy DeCarava, Nadine DeLawrence, Thornton Dial, Sr., Robert S. Duncanson, William Edmondson, Melvin Edwards, Minnie Evans, Sam Gilliam, Rex Goreleigh, Gladys Grauer, Renée Green, Larry Hilton, Milton Hinton, Lonnie Holley, Diane Horn, Manuel Hughes, Richard Hunt, Joshua Johnson, Ben Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, James Little, Tom Lloyd, Al Loving, Thomas Malloy, John Moore, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Joe Overstreet, Lorenzo Pace, Gordon Parks, Janet T. Pickett, Horace Pippin, P.H. Polk, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Mei Tei-Sing Smith, Chuck Stewart, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Dox Thrash, Bill Traylor, James VanDerZee, Shawn Walker, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff. An exhibition of the same name (September 19-December 31, 1998) was organized to accompany publication of the catalogue. 4to (28 cm.), wraps. First ed.
WEST PALM BEACH (FL). Norton Museum of Art.
Say it Loud: Art by African and African American Artists in the Collection.
December 27, 2012-March 3, 2013.
Group exhibition. Curated by Cheryl Brutvan. Included: Charles Alston, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Bradford, Nick Cave, Willie Cole, Robert H. Colescott, Sam Gilliam, Jacob Lawrence, Al Loving, Kerry James Marshall, J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, Gordon Parks, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Augusta Savage, Yinka Shonibare, Mary Sibande, Malick Sidibé, Lorna Simpson, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, James Vanderzee, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems.
WHALAN, MARK.
The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008.
303 pp., illus. Discussion of writers as W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, and Alain Locke, as well as of the legacy of the war for the representation of African Americans in film, photography, and anthropology, with a particular focus on the photographer James Vanderzee. 8vo (9.2 x 6.2 in.), cloth. First ed.
WHITE PLAINS (NY). Krasdale Foods Art Gallery and Lehman College.
Empowerment: The Art of African American Artists.
June-September, 1994.
Exhib. cat., illus. Text by Sigmund R. Balka. Artists included: Romare Bearden, Beverly Buchanan, Noah Jemison, Norman Lewis, Whitfield Lovell, James Vanderzee, Philemona Williamson, et al.
WILLIAMSTOWN (MA). Williams College Museum of Art.
Black Photographers Bear Witness: 100 Years of Social Protest.
1989.
72 pp. exhib. cat., illus., bibliogs. Texts by Deborah Willis and Howard Dodson. Includes James Presley Ball, Cornelius M. Battey, James Vanderzee, Marvin and Morgan Smith, Gordon Parks, Moneta Sleet Jr., Robert Sengstacke, Ozier Muhammad, Brent Jones, Christian Walker, Pat Ward Williams, and Carrie Mae Weems. [Review by Andy Grundberg, "A Century of Black History Brought Into Focus," NYT, July 2, 1989.] 4to (28 cm.), pictorial self-wraps. First ed.
WILLIS DEBORAH (photo ed.) and MICHAEL H. COTTMAN (text).
The Family of Black America.
New York: Crown, 1996.
189 pp., color and b&w illus. Research by Linda Tarrant-Reid. Photographers include: James Vanderzee, Richard Samuel Roberts, Radcliffe Bailey, Dawoud Bey, Roland Charles, Marvin Edwards, Roland Freeman, Lonnie Graham, Chester Higgins, Jr., Lou Jones, Winston Kennedy, William E. Lathan, Stephen Marc, John W. Mosley, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Gordon Parks, John Pinderhughes, Eugene Roquemore, David "Oggi" Ogburn, Mei Tei Sing Smith, Hank Sloane Thomas (aka Hank Willis Thomas), Lester Sloan, Jeffrey Henson Scales, Accra Shepp, Moneta Sleet, Jr., Clarissa Sligh, Ron Tarver, Carrie Mae Weems, Robert Whitby, Wendel A. White, Juanita Williams, Mel Wright. 4to, wraps. First ed.
WILLIS, DEBORAH.
A Search for Self: The Photograph and Black Family Life.
1999.
In: Marianne Hirsch, ed. The Familial Gaze, Dartmouth, 1999. Mentions Clarissa Sligh, James Vanderzee, et al. 8vo (9.1 x 6.1 in.), wraps.
WILLIS, DEBORAH and CARLA WILLIAMS.
The Black Female Body: A Photographic History.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.
228 pp., 185 illustrations from the origins of photography to the present. The text examines Western culture's fascination with black women's bodies. Black photographers included: Harry Adams, Ajamu, James Lattimer Allen, Allison Bolah, Roland Charles, Albert V. Chong, Renée Cox, Angele Etoundi Essamba, Elise Fitte-Duval, Kianga Ford, Joy Gregory, Lyle Ashton Harris, Chester Higgins, Jr., Allen Jackson, Roshini Kempadoo, Harlee Little, Fern Logan, Stephen Marc, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, John W. Mosley, Ming Smith Murray, Oggi Ogburn, Lorraine O'Grady, Catherine Opie, Gordon Parks, Edgar Eugene Phipps, Adrian Piper, Prentiss H. Polk, Richard Samuel Roberts, Coreen Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Clarissa T. Sligh, Beuford Smith, James Vanderzee, Maxine Walker, Cynthia Wiggins, Carla Williams, Charles Williams, Pat Ward Williams, Deborah Willis. [Note: complete list of illustrations, not included in the book, are available at Carla Williams's website carlagirl.net]. 4to (30.5 x 23 cm.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
WILLIS, DEBORAH, ed.
Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present.
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000.
348 pp., 81 color plates, 487 b&w illus., notes, bibliog., index. Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley. Published to accompany the three-part traveling exhibition organized by the Smithsonian Institution. Important gathering of photographs of Black subjects by African American photographers from mid-nineteenth century through the present (roughly half from 1980s and 90s) by the pre-eminent historian of this subject. Photographers include: O'Neal Abel, Salima Ali, James Lattimer Allen, Winifred Hall Allen, Amalia Amaki, Linda L. Ammons, Ken D. Ashton, Thomas Askew, John B. Bailey, James Presley Ball, Sr., James Presley Ball, Jr., Thomas Ball, Anthony Barboza, Cornelius M. Battey, Anthony Beale, Arthur P. Bedou, Donald Bernard, Dawoud Bey, Howard Bingham, Caroll Parrott Blue, Terry Boddie, Rick Bolton, St. Clair Bourne, George O. Brown, John H. Brown, Jr., Keith M. Calhoun, Dennis Callwood, Don Camp, Roland Charles, Albert Chong, Carl Clark, Linda Day Clark, Allen Edward Cole, Florestine Perrault Collins, Herbert Collins, Adger Cowans, Renée Cox, Cary Beth Cryor, Steven Cummings, Gerald G. Cyrus, Jack Davis, C. Daniel Dawson, Roy DeCarava, Doris Derby, Stephanie Dinkins, Lou Draper, George Durr, Nekisha Durrett, Edward (Eddie) Eleha, Darrel Ellis, Jonathan Eubanks, Delphine A. Fawundu, Alfred Fayemi, Jeffrey Fearing, Joe Flowers, Collette Fournier, Jack T. Franklin, Elnora Frazier, Daniel Freeman, Roland L. Freeman, King Daniel Ganaway, Bill Gaskins, Glenalvin Goodridge, Wallace Goodridge, William Goodridge, Bob Gore, Lonnie Graham, Todd Gray, Camille Gustus, Robert Haggins, Austin Hansen, Edwin Harleston, Elise Forrest Harleston, Charles "Teenie" Harris, Doug Harris, Joe Harris, Lyle Ashton Harris, Thomas Allen Harris, Lucius Henderson, Craig Herndon, Leroy Henderson, Calvin Hicks, Chester Higgins, Jr., Milton Hinton, Raymond Holman, Earlie Hudnall, Jr., Curtis Humphrey, Reginald Jackson, Chris Johnson, Brent Jones, Kenneth George Jones, Lou Jones, Benny Joseph, Kamoinge Workshop, Perry A. Keith, Andrew T. Kelly, Roshini Kempadoo, Winston Kennedy, Keba Konte, Andree Lambertson, Bill Lathan, Carl E. Lewis, Nashomeh L. R. Lindo, Harlee Little, Fern Logan, Stephen Marc, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Charles Martin, Louise Ozell Martin, Chandra McCormick, Robert H. McNeill, Bertrand Miles, Cheryl Miller, Robert (Bob) Moore, John W. Mosley, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Ming Smith Murray (as Ming Smith), Mansa Mussa, Marilyn Nance, Sunny Nash, Constance Newman, David Ogburn, G. Dwoyid Olmstead, Kambui Olujimi, Villard Paddio, Gordon Parks, D.M. Pearson, Moira Pernambuco, Bonnie Phillips, John Pinderhughes, P. H. Polk, Paul Poole, Carl R. Pope, Marion James Porter, Sheila Pree, Eli Reed, Richard Roberts, Wilhelmina Williams Roberts, Orville Robertson, Herb Robinson, Eugene Roquemore, Susan J. Ross, Ken Royster, Jeffery St. Mary, Richard Saunders, Jeffrey Scales, Addison L. Scurlock, George H. Scurlock, Robert S. Scurlock, Robert A. Sengstacke, Harry Shepherd, Accra Shepp, Carl Sidle, Coreen Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Moneta Sleet, Clarissa Sligh, Beuford Smith, Marvin Smith, Morgan Smith, Frank Stallings, Charles (Chuck) Stewart, Gerald Straw, Ron Tarver, Hank Willis Thomas, Elaine Tomlin, June DeLairre Truesdale, Sheila Turner, Richard Aloysius Twine, James Vanderzee, Vincent Alan W., Christian Walker, Shawn W. Walker, Augustus Washington, Lewis Watts, Carrie Mae Weems, Ellie Lee Weems, Jean Weisinger, Edward West, Wendel A. White, Cynthia Wiggins, Carlton Wilkinson, Carla Williams, Charles Williams, Milton Williams, Pat Ward Williams, William Earle Williams, Ernest C. Withers, Mel Wright. Large 4to (31 cm.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
WILLIS-THOMAS, DEBORAH.
Black Photographers 1840-1940. An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography.
New York: Garland, 1985.
xviii, 141 pp., including 24 pp. list of photographers and bibliography, plus full-page b&w illus.by some of the listed photographers, name index, geographical index, index to photographic collections. Important reference. Includes: James Latimer Allen, Eldridge Asher, John B. Bailey, Hattie Baker, Walter Baker, James Presley Ball, Thomas Ball, Edward M. Bannister, J.F. Barnes, Cornelius Battey, D.E. Beasley, Arthur P. Bedou, Hayes Louis Bowdre, Walter A. Boyd, B.B. Browder, Hayward Bryant, James S. Campbell, Frank Herman Cloud, Herbert Collins, C. J. Davis, Roy DeCarava, Robert S. Duncanson, Eddie Elcha, James C. Farley, George Fields, Daniel Freeman, King Daniel Ganaway, Glenalvin Goodridge, Wallace Goodridge, William Goodridge, J. H. Gray, Francis Grice, Austin Hansen, Elise Forrest Harleston, Frank Harris, Benjamin L. Higgins, Lewis P. Hunster, Harvey Husband, Andrew F. Jackson, John W. Johnson, Dewitt Keith, W. H. Lawson, Edward Henry Lee, Jules Lion, John Roy Lynch, Arthur L. Macbeth, Robert McNeill, R. E. Mercer, J. W. Miller, G. W. Minter, Thestus Myzell, Gordon Parks, F. R. Perryman, Edgar E. Phipps, Prentiss H. Polk, Paul Poole, Charles L. Reason, Richard Samuel Roberts, W.H. Ross, Thomas Rutter, Addison N. Scurlock, Harry (Henry) Shepherd, Frank C. Smith, Marvin and Morgan Smith, W. H. S. Spigner, Walter Stephens. Fannie J. Thompson, James A. Vanderzee, Augustus Washington, Miles Webb, Ellis L. Weems, Woodard Studios. 4to, silver lettered black cloth. First ed.
WILMINGTON (DE). University of Delaware.
Original Acts: Photographs of African-American Performers from the Paul R. Jones Collection.
February 5-March 28, 2002.
Curated by Amelia Amaki. Photographers include: Jim Alexander, William Anderson, Bert Andrews, John H. Cochran Jr., Robert Cohen, Adger Cowans, William Crite, Jenni Girtman, Edward Jones, Frank H. Lee, Leonard Mainor, Ming Smith Murray, Prentiss H. (P.H.) Polk, Frank Stewart, Gerald Straw, Sheila Turner, Onikwa Bill Wallace, J. Miles Wolf and James Vanderzee.
WINTZ, CARY D. and PAUL FINKELMAN, eds.
Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance.
Routledge, 2004.
An obvious inadequate allowance of space for the visual arts in the general subject entries. Only those artists allotted a biography entry receive any serious attention at all. Includes: Charles Alston, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, William E. Braxton, Samuel Countee, Allan Rohan Crite, Beauford Delaney, Aaron Douglas, William McKnight Farrow, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Edwin A. Harleston, Palmer Hayden, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Augusta Savage, William Edouard Scott, Frank Sheinall, Albert A. Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, James Vanderzee, Hale Woodruff.
ames Van Der Zee (June 29, 1886 – May 15, 1983) was an African-American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Aside from the artistic merits of his work, Van Der Zee produced the most comprehensive documentation of the period. Among his most famous subjects during this time were Marcus Garvey, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Countee Cullen.
Contents
1 Biography
2 Works
2.1 Commission from UNIA
2.2 Harlem on My Mind
3 Photographic techniques and artistry
4 Exhibitions
4.1 Solo exhibitions[7]
4.2 Selected group exhibitions[7]
5 Publications
6 Further reading
7 References
8 External links
Biography
Van Der Zee made his first photographs as a boy in Lenox, Massachusetts. He bought his first camera when he was a teenager, and improvised a darkroom in his parents' home.[1] In 1905, he moved with his father and brother to Harlem in New York City, where he worked as a waiter and elevator operator. In 1915, he moved to Newark, New Jersey, where he took a job in a portrait studio, first as a darkroom assistant and then as a portraitist. He returned to Harlem the following year, setting up a studio at the Toussaint Conservatory of Art and Music that his sister, Jennie Louise Van de Zee, also known as Madame E Toussaint had founded in 1911.
"Evening Attire," 1922, by Van Der Zee, in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
In 1916, he and his second wife, Gaynella Greenlee, launched the Guarantee Photo Studio on West 125th Street in Harlem. His business boomed during World War I, and the portraits he shot from this period until 1945 have demanded the majority of critical attention. In 1919, he photographed the victory parade of the returning 369th Infantry Regiment, a predominantly African American unit sometimes called the "Harlem Hellfighters."
During the 1920s and 1930s, he produced hundreds of photographs recording Harlem's growing middle class. Its residents entrusted the visual documentation of their weddings, funerals, celebrities and sports stars, and social life to his carefully composed images.[2] Among his many renowned subjects were poet Countee Cullen, dancer Bill (“Bojangles”) Robinson, Charles M. "Daddy" Grace, Joe Louis, Florence Mills, and black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey.[1]
Van Der Zee worked predominantly in the studio and used a variety of props, including architectural elements, backdrops, and costumes, to achieve stylized tableaux vivant in keeping with late Victorian and Edwardian visual traditions. Sitters often copied celebrities of the 1920s and 1930s in their poses and expressions, and he retouched negatives and prints heavily to achieve an aura of glamour. He also created funeral photographs between the wars. These works were later collected in The Harlem Book of the Dead (1978), with a foreword by Toni Morrison.[3]
Works
Commission from UNIA
In the spring and summer of 1924, Van Der Zee worked to document the members and activities of Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). He took thousands of photographs on this assignment, some of which were featured in a calendar issued to members in 1925.
Fulfilling Garvey's wishes, Van Der Zee's job was to project a positive image of the Association, especially to emphasize the strength and social standing of its membership, the so-called Garveyites. Nowhere in Van Der Zee's visual record was there any hint of the controversy surrounding Garvey in the early 1920s, a period when the leader was subject to public interrogation, quarrels with the writer and philosopher W.E.B. DuBois, and legal proceedings against him on charges of mail fraud.[4]
Harlem on My Mind
In 1969, Van Der Zee gained worldwide recognition when his work was featured in the exhibition Harlem on My Mind at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.[1] His inclusion in the exhibition was somewhat by accident. In December 1967, a researcher for the exhibition (and a photographer in his own right), Reginald McGhee, came across Van Der Zee's Harlem studio and asked if he happened to have any photographs from the 1920s and 30s.[4]
In a story recounted by photo historian Rodger C. Birt, Van Der Zee showed him the boxes and boxes of negatives he had kept from this period. These photographs would become the core of Harlem on My Mind—and the feature of the exhibit that critics routinely praised as the show's biggest revelation.[4] As art historian Sharon Patton observed, Van Der Zee not only documented the Harlem Renaissance, but also helped create it.[5]
Harlem on My Mind marked a controversy between the Met and a number of practicing artists then living and working and Harlem. Painters including Romare Bearden and Benny Andrews protested the show for its emphasis on social history and experience, at the expense—as they viewed it—of interest in the artistic legacy of black New York artists. On opening day, a picket line formed in front of the Met. Andrews carried a sign reading: "Visit The Metropolitan Museum of Photography."[4]
Photographic techniques and artistry
Works by Van Der Zee are artistic as well as technically proficient. His work was in high demand, in part due to his experimentation and skill in double exposures and in retouching negatives of children. One theme that recurs in his photographs was the emergent black middle class, which he captured using traditional techniques in often idealistic images. Negatives were retouched to show glamor and an aura of perfection. This affected the likeness of the person photographed, but he felt each photo should transcend the subject.
His carefully posed family portraits reveal that the family unit was an important aspect of Van Der Zee's life. "I tried to see that every picture was better-looking than the person ... I had one woman come to me and say 'Mr. VanDerZee my friends tell that's a nice picture, but it doesn't look like you.' That was my style", said VanDerZee.[6] Van Der Zee sometimes combined several photos in one image, for example by adding a ghostly child to an image of a wedding to suggest the couple's future, or by superimposing a funeral image upon a photograph of a dead woman to give the feeling of her eerie presence. Van Der Zee said, "I wanted to make the camera take what I thought should be there."[6]
Van Der Zee was a working photographer who supported himself through portraiture, and he devoted time to his professional work before his more artistic compositions. Many famous residents of Harlem were among his subjects.[3] In addition to portraits, Van Der Zee photographed organizations, events, and other businesses.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions[7]
1970 - Lenox Library, Massachusetts
1971 - Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
1974 - Lunn Gallery/Graphics International, Washington, D.C.
1979 - The Legacy of James Van Der Zee: A Portrait of Black Americans, Alternative Center for International Arts, New York and Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
1983 - Camera Club of New York and Idaho State University, Pocatello
1987 - Deborah Sharp Gallery, New York
1994 - Retrospective, National Portrait Gallery Washington, D.C. and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
Selected group exhibitions[7]
1969 - Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America 1900-1968, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1978 - Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1979 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Fleeting Gestures: Dance Photographs, International Center of Photography, New York (traveling)
1982 - Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
1985 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1987 - Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (traveling)
VanDerZee began photographing as a teenager after having won an eight-dollar camera as a premium for selling pink and yellow silk sachets. Beginning in 1916 he worked out of a commercial Harlem studio he opened on 135th street. During the 1920s and 1930s, he produced hundreds of photographs recording Harlem's growing middle class. Its residents entrusted the visual documentation of their weddings, funerals, celebrities, and social life to his carefully composed images. VanDerZee knew the neighborhood and its inhabitants, and shared their dreams and aspirations for self-determination and racial pride.
Gwen Everett African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, D.C. and New York: Smithsonian American Art Museum in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003)
Artist Biography
James VanDerZee is one of the country's most distinctive portrait photographers. From his first experiments with a small box camera around the age of fourteen, his interest continued as he photographed friends and family in Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia for pleasure and occasional commissions. Settling in New York City around 1909, he secured a job as a "darkroom man" for a photographer's small department store concession. In 1916, he chose photography over a less lucrative career as a musician and opened his first studio on West 135th Street.
During the next forty years, VanDerZee chronicled the people and celebrations of Harlem—from schoolchildren, church groups, and wedding couples, to the parades organized by black nationalist Marcus Garvey and the funeral for singer Florence Mills. The exhibition, Harlem on My Mind, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969, brought his work to the attention of the art world, to which he had paid little notice. Ironically, he had retired that year because of a declining market for his particular form of portraiture and the advent of cheaper, easier-to-use cameras. Three years before his death, however, VanDerZee resumed photography.
Evening Attire [SAAM, 1994.57.3] epitomizes VanDerZee's considered approach to studio portraiture. The young woman is carefully placed between two tables, against a painted background. The details of her dress, the illusionistic backdrop, tiled floor, and patterned tablecloth create an abundance of texture and tone. Her gaze seems dreamy, an effect enhanced by the softly focused edges of the image.
VanDerZee strove to capture the personality, character, and intrinsic beauty of his sitters. His photographs are not simply documents, but celebrations of Harlem lives that included some degree of affluence and an appreciation of small luxuries—a beaded dress, a fur stole, an attentively decorated home. Here was an opportunity for African Americans to see themselves as the center of a universe, as white Americans could in mainstream society. For VanDerZee, this was reflected in the careful framing of a world of elegance, refinement, and a beauty sometimes elusive in the world outside his studio.
James Van Der Zee was a renowned, Harlem-based photographer known for his posed, storied pictures capturing African-American citizenry and celebrity.
Synopsis
Born on June 29, 1886, in Lenox, Massachusetts, James Van Der Zee developed a passion for photography as a youth, and opened up his own Harlem studio in 1916. Van Der Zee became known for his detailed imagery of African-American life, and for capturing celebrities such as Florence Mills and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Following hard financial times, Van Der Zee enjoyed a resurge in his career during his later years. He died in 1983 in Washington, D.C.
Early Life and Career
James Augustus Van Der Zee entered the world on June 29, 1886, in Lenox, Massachusetts, the second of six siblings born to Elizabeth and John Van Der Zee. The Van Der Zee children were great students in general, and James learned how to play the piano and violin as a youth. He later developed a passion for photography and took pictures for his high school.
With his brother Walter, James Van Der Zee departed for Harlem, New York, in 1906; once there, he held jobs as a waiter and elevator operator. He married Kate Brown in 1907 and the newlyweds moved to Virginia, where Van Der Zee would do photography work for the Hampton Institute. After welcoming their first child, the couple moved back to New York in 1908 (they would eventually split in 1915).
For several years, Van Der Zee put his musicianship to use, playing with Fletcher Henderson's band and the John Wanamaker Orchestra while also working as a piano and violin teacher.
Van Der Zee obtained a job as a darkroom assistant in a New Jersey department store, and by 1916, he had opened his own Harlem studio, Guarantee Photo. He eventually renamed his workplace GGG Studio, after his second wife, Gaynella Greenlee (they wed in 1920).
Photographing Harlem Life
The Harlem Renaissance was in full swing during the 1920s and '30s, and for decades, Van Der Zee would photograph Harlemites of all backgrounds and occupations, though his work is particularly noted for its pioneering depiction of middle-class African-American life. He took thousands of pictures, mostly indoor portraits, and labeled each of his photos with a signature and date, which would prove to be important for future documentation.
Although Van Der Zee photographed many African-American celebrities—including Florence Mills, Hazel Scott and Adam Clayton Powell Jr.—most of his work was of the straightforward commercial studio variety: weddings and funerals (including pictures of the dead for grieving families), family groups, teams, lodges, clubs, and people simply wanting to have a record of themselves in fine clothes. He often supplied props or costumes and took time to carefully pose his subjects, giving the picture an accessible narrative.
Van Der Zee's photos sometimes contained special effects from the result of darkroom manipulation. In one image, a 1920 photograph titled "Future Expectations (Wedding Day)," a young couple is presented in bride and groom finery, with a ghostly, transparent image of a child at their feet.
Financial Hardships and a New Renaissance
With the advent of personal cameras in the middle of the century, the desire for Van Der Zee's services dwindled; he procured less and less commissions, though he maintained an alternative business in image restoration and mail order sales. He and Greenlee were of very limited means when, in 1969, the Metropolitan Museum of Art mounted an exhibition featuring Van Der Zee, Harlem on My Mind, bringing the photographer and his work renewed attention.
Nonetheless, Van Der Zee and his wife still faced financial difficulties; after they were evicted from their Harlem residence, they relocated to the Bronx. Greenlee died in 1976, and Van Der Zee was reported to be living in squalor and poor health. Art gallery director Donna Mussenden took up his cause, starting to structure his home space and organize public appearances, and the two married in 1978. Revitalized, Van Der Zee worked with a new wave of celebrity as an in-demand photographer; some of the luminaries he captured this go-around include Bill Cosby, Lou Rawls, Cicely Tyson and Jean Michael Basquiat.
In 1981, Van Der Zee filed a suit to reclaim more than 50,000 images from the Studio Museum of Harlem, the rights to which he had signed away after his eviction. The case would be settled posthumously, with half of the work being returned to the photographer's estate, and the remainder being retained by the museum and the James Van Der Zee Institute.
Van Der Zee received several accolades upon his return to the spotlight; among his honors, he became a permanent fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and received a Living Legacy Award from President Jimmy Carter. After receiving an honorary doctorate from Howard University, Van Der Zee died of a heart attack at age 96, on May 15, 1983, in Washington, D.C. His work has continued to be celebrated for the past several years, with special exhibitions honoring his legacy.