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Breaking racial barriers : African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection / preface by David C. Driskell ; introduction by Tuliza K. Fleming.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Waring, Laura Wheeler, 1887-1948--Exhibitions.
- Waring, Laura Wheeler.
- Reynau, Betsy Graves--Exhibitions.
- Reynau, Betsy Graves.
- Brady, Mary Beattie--Exhibitions.
- Brady, Mary Beattie.
- Waring, Laura Wheeler, 1887-1948.
- National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution).
- African Americans--Biography--Exhibitions.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Biography.
- Exhibitions.
- African Americans--Portraits--Exhibitions.
- African Americans--Portraits.
- Harmon Foundation--Art patronage--Exhibitions.
- Harmon Foundation.
- Art patronage.
- National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)--Exhibitions.
- Genre:
- Catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 126 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; San Francisco : Pomegranate Artbooks, [1997]
- Summary:
- The exhibition "Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin" premiered in 1944 at the Smithsonian Institution and subsequently toured around the United States for ten years. The purpose of the show, as conceived by its patron, New York's Harmon Foundation, was to recognize and promote the significant achievements of African Americans, encourage racial tolerance among white Americans, and eradicate segregation. In a radical innovation, the foundation commissioned both a black and a white artist, Laura Wheeler Waring and Betsy Graves Reyneau, to create the exhihition's portraits of such notables as Thurgood Marshall, Joe Louis, and Marian Anderson.
- Breaking Racial Barriers catalogs the 1997 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. A partial reconstruction of the Harmon Foundation's original exhibition, it includes forty-one portraits reproduced in full color accompanied by biographical text.
- Contents:
- Mary Beattie Brady: remembering the legacy / by David C. Driskell
- Breaking racial barriers / by Tuliza K. Fleming
- Catalogue
- Original exhibition venues, 1944-1954.
- Notes:
- "An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, January 31 to September 14, 1997"--T.p. verso.
- A partial reconstruction of the Harmon Foundation's original exhibition Portraits of outstanding Americans of Negro origin, premiering at the Smithsonian Institution, May 2-28, 1944.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 124).
- ISBN:
- 0764903322
- OCLC:
- 36440096
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