Represent : 200 years of African American art in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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Label

Represent : 200 years of African American art in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Title remainder

200 years of African American art in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Statement of responsibility

Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, consulting curator ; introductory essay by Richard J. Powell

Creator

• Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois, 1968-

Contributor

• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Powell, Richard J., 1953-

Author

• Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois, 1968-

Curator

• Powell, Richard J., 1953-

Host institution

• Philadelphia Museum of Art

Writer of introduction

• Powell, Richard J., 1953-

Subject

• African American artists -- Pennsylvania | Philadelphia -- Exhibitions
• Art noir américain -- Pennsylvanie | Philadelphie -- Expositions
• Artistes noirs américains -- Pennsylvanie | Philadelphie -- Expositions
• Catalogues d'exposition
• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs
• Kunst
• Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
• Schwarze
• USA
• African American art
• exhibition catalogs
• African American art -- Pennsylvania | Philadelphia -- Exhibitions
• African American artists

Genre

• exhibition catalogs
• Catalogues d'exposition
• Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs
• Expositions

Language

eng

Summary

This publication highlights nearly 150 objects in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art that were created by American artists of African descent. Introduced with an essay by the distinguished scholar Richard J. Powell, the volume includes paintings, sculpture, works on paper, decorative arts, costume and textiles, and photography by some 100 artists, from classically trained painters such as Henry Ossawa Tanner to self-taught artists such as Bill Traylor. Informative, thematic essays by the consulting curator, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, are followed by individual object entries as well as texts spotlighting areas of collecting strength, many of them written by members of the museum's curatorial staff. The first major publication to focus on the museum's diverse collection of works by African American artists, this volume also offers a fresh scholarly perspective on African American art from the early 19th century to the present

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs