African American Art Surveys
Online information about African American Art from sources other than Resource Library
with an emphasis on representational art
(above: Henry Ossawa Tanner, Wynkoop House, Old Haarlem,1888, oil on canvas, New Britain Museum of American Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
African Americans in the Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective was a 1996 exhibit at the B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, Long Island University, which says: "This exhibit tells the story of the African-American artists' quest for creative recognition in their chosen art forms. The story follows these artists via their early exposure to European art and genre paintings and respectfully following these rules in their learned crafts. Later, there is a fusion shown, using the European, African, and American cultural context in these artists' works. The exhibit is a visual presentation, along with historical text covering the early and recent achievements of these artists involved in the Visual Arts. " Accessed 12/16
African Americans: Seeing and Seen, 1766 - 1916, an exhibit held April 8, 2010 - May 30, 2010 at the Danforth Museum of Art. Includes essay by Tess Sol Schwab. Accessed 9/14.
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem is a 2021 exhibit at the Frye Art Museum which says: "Celebrating The Studio Museum in Harlem's role as a site for the dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society, this landmark exhibition proposes a plurality of narratives of Black artistic production and multiple approaches to understanding these works." Accessed 7/21
Explore History in Art section of Oh Freedom mini-website presented by Smithsonian American Art Museum and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. The site is dedicated to teaching African American civil rights through American art at the Smithsonian. Accessed January, 2016.
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, an exhibit about basket makers in South Carolina's Gullah/Geechee region, held October 4, 2009 to January 10, 2010 at the Fowler Museum / UCLA. Includes press release. Accessed December, 2015.
Guide to African American Artists from Archives of American Art. Accessed July, 2015.
List of links pages for African American Artists, from Artcyclopedia. Accessed July, 2015.
Louisiana Art from the Encyclopedia of Louisiana, a project of Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, contains "Free Black Artists, Antebellum New Orleans" Accessed July, 2015.
Perceptions of Black: African American Art and the Visual Arts Movement from the University of Virginia. Accessed July, 2015.
Seven Famous African-American Masters of American Art by Maxine E. Davis, from Duke University. Accessed July, 2015.
Souls Grown Deep Foundation documents, researches, preserves, and exhibits the work of self-taught African American artists of the American South. Accessed July, 2015.
Spoken: Portraits in Black was a 2016 exhibit at the Columbia Museum of Art, which says: "With Spoken: Portraits in Black, the CMA is highlighting the power and tradition of the portrait as meaningful genre with a nod to the dynamic contributions by African-American artists." Consulting Curator Porchia Moore comments on the exhibit in a 1 min video. Accessed 10/16
30 Americans - Masterpieces of Contemporary African-American Art, an exhibit held March 16 - July 15, 2012 at the Chrysler Museum of Art. Incluides information on artists and links to media reviews. Accessed July, 2014.
Wikipedia has an African-American art page which lists numerous African American artists.
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