The Negro Artist Comes of Age: A National Survey of Contemporary American Artists. Albany Institute of History and Art, January 3rd through February 11th, 1945

[Albany, New York]: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1945.

Price: $850.00

Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Forward by John Davis Hatch, Jr. Introduction by Alain Locke. Tall octavo. vii, 77pp. Illustrated with halftone portraits and images of artworks. Owner name ("Alma H. Powell," possibly the African-American Michigan librarian Alma Harrod Powell) on the title page. Ms. Powell has filled portions of four blank pages with relevant inked or penciled notes and newspaper clippings, along with one brief inked note in the text. Most of the spine held together with tape and with a chip at the crown and the split at the base, topedge, and first page of the foreword ink-stained (the foreword is still legible), wartime publication label tipped on the front fly with a bit of loss affecting a couple of words, sound but good only. Includes brief biographies of the artists.

Item #527667

item image

Item #527667 The Negro Artist Comes of Age: A National Survey of Contemporary American Artists. Albany Institute of History and Art, January 3rd through February 11th, 1945. Alain LOCKE, John Davis Hatch Jr.