Browse Items (58 total)

Repository Exhibition: For Love of Illusion, ART | library deco, ART | library deco, The Librarian: 1879 - 1950

For Love of Illusion documents the life of Bella da Costa Greene

Tags: Art Collector, Bella da Costa Greene, Collection, J.P. Morgan Chase, Librarian, Repository

kYmberly Keeton 1920-1940, Biographical Narrative | Hertha Auburn Webb Glenn

Tags: African American, Biography, Hertha Auburn Webb Glenn

ART | library deco, Genealogical History: Hertha Auburn Webb Glenn, 1920-1940

Genealogical Records about the life of Hertha Auburn Webb Glenn

Collection Cover: Hertha Auburn Webb Glenn, ART | library deco, 2021

Collection Cover

ART | library deco, Oral History with Hertha Auburn Webb Glenn, ART l library deco REPOSITORY, July 1, 2020

Oral history conducted about the life of African American educator, club and sorority woman.

Tags: AKA, Austin, Douglass Club, Educator, Hertha Auburn Webb Glenn, San Angelo, Texas, Top Ladies

Homage to Duke, Bessie, and Louis, Romare Bearden (1911–1988), 20th Century African American Jazz Movement

Homage to Duke, Bessie, and Louis pays tribute to musicians Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, and Louis Armstrong. Musicians and jazz often appear in…

Tags: African American Jazz, Bessie Smith, Collage Art, Duke Ellington, Harlem Renaissance, Louis Armstrong, Painting, Romare Bearden, The Apollo Theater

Printing with printing presses at Claflin University, Orangeburg, S.C., Unknown, Library of Congress, 1899-1890

Photographic digital print of African American's working inside printing presses in the United States.

Tags: African Americans, Education, Printing Presses, Vocational education

FLO-JO World Record Nails, Artist: Pamela Council, 2012 | 2020

Collection displays artwork that deconstructs traditional fixtures of beauty as an extension of female identity at the intersection of art and…

Tags: Collection, FLO JO, Nails, Pamela Council

Flo Jo World Record Nails, Pamela Council, 2012

2000 acrylic fake fingernails, nail polish, rhinestones, metal, wood

Sculpture made from 2000 artist-made replica acrylic fingernails in the shape…

Tags: African American, Cultural, FLO JO, Identity, Track, Women, World World

Pamela Council, African American Artist, Photo by Joe Gall for Red Bull, Red Bull, 2020

Pamela Council was born in Southampton, New York and currently resides in Bronxville, where she works to produce sculpture, textiles, print-based…