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Exhibit of Fine Arts by American Negro Artists.
New York: Harmon Foundation, 1930. 12mo (8” x 5”), pictorial wrappers. 10 [including front wrapper], [6] pp. [including rear wrapper], illus. The catalog for the Harmon Foundation’s 1930 exhibition of fine art by contemporary black artists. Established in 1922 by the white real-estate developer William E. Harmon, the Harmon Foundation was one of the first U.S. arts organizations to recognize African-American achievement in the fields of education, industry, art, literature, music, race relations and science. Many of these achievement emerged out of the Harlem Renaissance. Here the Harmon Foundation has partnered with the Commission on Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches to produce the present exhibition. Featuring a self-portrait of the artist William H. Johnson on the front-cover, this catalog includes reproductions of sixteen paintings and sculptures by African-American artists whose works appeared in the 1930 exhibition arranged in connection with the Foundation’s Awards for Distinguished Achievement among African-Americans (itself an outgrowth of the Award in Fine Arts). Among the artists included were Mary Lee Tate, Laura Wheeling Waring, Allan Crite, Henry B. Jones, Palmer Hayden and many others. This was the third year in which the visual art of black men and women was shown under the Foundation’s auspices. The express purpose of exhibition was not only to encourage African-Americans in creative expression of a high order, but also “to assist him to a more sound and satisfactory economic position in the field of fine art.” Some ninety-five works are listed here, as well as the Harmon Awards for previous years (beginning in 1926). CONDITION: Very good, very light wear.
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