| Description | Touring to Arnolfini, Bristol; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (6 September 1997-22 June 1998).
Guide written by Richard J. Powell and Roger Malbert.
Illustrated with images of works by : Archibald J. Motley Jr, James VanDerZee, Winold Reiss, Meta Vaux Warwick Fuller, Lois Mailou Jones, Aaron Douglas, and Jacob Lawrence.
Text additionally mentions : World War I, New York, blues, Great Depression, Manhattan, Europe, Africa, the Caribbean, 'The Crisis' magazine, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, W.E.B. du Bois, 'Opportunity' journal, National Urban League, Charles S. Johnson, African-American art, New York Public Library, Harmon Foundation, Alain Locke, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Ethiopia, Malvin Gray Johnson, Charles Alston, Carl van Vechten, William H. Johnson, South Carolina, Richard S. Roberts, Oscar Micheaux, 'New Negro' movement, Chicago, Jean Renoir, jazz, Miguel Covarrubias, Edward Burra, Palmer C. Hayden, Richmond Barthé, Doris Ulmann, Josephine Baker, Paul Robeson, Toussaint l'Ouverture, James Lesesne Wells, and Haiti. |