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Collecting African American art : the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / John Hope Franklin and Alvia J. Wardlaw.
LIBRA N6538.N5 F73 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, John Hope, 1915-2009.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American art--Collectors and collecting--Texas--Houston--Exhibitions.
- African American art.
- African American art--Collectors and collecting.
- Texas--Houston.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 146 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Houston] : Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- "Celebrating an important aspect of cultural history, this book showcases the institutional and private efforts to collect, document, and preserve African American art in Houston during the 20th and 21st centuries"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Ruminations of a would-be art collector / John Hope Franklin African
- Reflections of a curatorial odyssey / Alvia J. Wardlaw
- Houston collects : African American art / Alvia J. Wardlaw
- Copyright and photography credits.
- Notes:
- Published to commemorate the exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Aug. 3-Oct. 26, 2008.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel W. Golden Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780300152913
- 0300152914
- OCLC:
- 269282205
- Publisher Number:
- 99934636643
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