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. Walkers 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 ZEEs 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 VANDERZEEs 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 VanDerZees 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 Craftmens 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 points de vente 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 OGrady, 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 Librarys 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 "Americas 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 Smithsonians 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 artists 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 ONeal, 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 ONeal, 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 Arts 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 Gees 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 Lewiss work is described as "improvisatory environments"), but its 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 OGrady, 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 Ofilis 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 ONeal, 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 OGrady, 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 Readers 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 Abduallah, 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 Torontos 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 V.
CATALOGUE JAMES VAN DER ZEE Harlem Renaisance 1972 artiste afro-américain points de vente
