Sharing traditions : five Black artists in nineteenth-century America : from the collections of the National Museum of American Art / Lynda Roscoe Hartigan.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

National Museum of American Art (U.S.)

Contributor:

Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe, curator, writer of essay.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American art--Exhibitions.

African American art.

Art, Modern--19th century--United States--Exhibitions.

Art, Modern.

Exhibitions.

United States.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

120 pages, xii pages of colored plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm

Distribution:

Washington, D.C. : Published for the National Museum of American Art.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Published by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985.

Contents:

Foreword / Charles C. Eldredge

Double Consciousness: Afro-American Identity in the Nineteenth Century / James Oliver Horton

Five Black Artists in Nineteenth-Century America: Joshua Johnson; Robert Scott Duncanson; Edward Mitchell Bannister; Edmonia Lewis; Henry Ossawa Tanner / Lynda Roscoe Hartigan.

Notes:

"Curator for the Exhibition: Lynda Roscoe Hartigan. Editor: Erika D. Passantino."

"Cover: Robert Scott Duncanson, 'Landscape with Rainbow.' 1859 ..."

"Circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES)"

"Published on the occasion of an exhibition ... at the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., January 15-April 7, 1985"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-116).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has January 1985 calendar of festival of American Arts, 2 copies of a symposium on the African-American Artist in the Nineteenth Century held January 31, 1985 and invitation to symposium on 19th century African American dance laid in.

OCLC:

11398839