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"Adei with Red Scarf", Nii Amon Kotei B. May 1915 D. October 2011, Harmon Foundation, 1922 - 1967

Painting included in the Select Picture List- Negro Art from the Harmon Foundation. Artworks by Negro Artists, compiled 1922 - 1967.

Tags: African Artist, Amon Kotei, Ghana

"Blind Beggars", Jacob Lawrence (Artist) Date of Created: 1938-11-14, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, 1935–1943

WPA Art Collection: Through New Deal initiatives under President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933, there was a confluence between the…

Tags: Blind Beggars, Jacob Lawrence, Photographs, WPA Art Project

"Contract of fiction between Jean-Michel Basquiat and Helmut Al Diez", Jean-Michel Basquiat & Al Diaz, From Author, Diez, 1988

The duo of SAMO©, which consisted of Jean-Michel Basquiat and his friend Helmut Al Diaz, wrote enigmatic epigrams and short phrases on the walls of…

Tags: Al Diez, Fiction, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Neo Expressionist, Text

"Ghetto Headlines", Collection: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION, 1889 - 1974, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA, ca. 1971 - ca. 1972

Artwork from Ethnic American Art Library Series - 1971 - ca. 1972, University of South Alabama, of paintings; sculptures; acrylics; pottery; and other…

Tags: African American, Artist Unknown, Ghetto Headlines, Library Exhibit Series, University South Alabama

"Homage to Nina Simone", Artist: Bob Thompson, (MIA) Minneapolis Institute of Art, 20th century: 1965

A year before his death at age twenty-eight, the African-American artist Bob Thompson painted this tribute to the jazz musician Nina Simone. The…

Tags: African American Expressionist, Bob Thompson, Color, Jazz, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Nina Simone

Poetry By Etta Baldwin Oldham, "Jis'Blue", New York : Forum Publishing Company, 1886-1930., Early 20th Century: July 1927

Poetry by Etta Baldwin Oldham was published in the southern periodical, "The Forum (defunct magazine)". At its zenith, The Forum was an American…

Tags: Big Springs, Educator, Etta Baldwin Oldham, Poet, Southern, Texas, Writer

"Midnight Golfer", E.J.Martin B. 1938; Washington, D.C. D. 2005: Layfette, LA Education: Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, S. Fredericq, estate of artist, Originally created, 1990

"Midnight Golfer": Post-black art arose during the Civil Rights Movement/Black Arts Movement/Hip Hop Movement as a category of contemporary…

Tags: African American Artist, Contemporary Art, E.J.Martin, Midnight Golfer, Modern Art

Research Compiled by kYmberly Keeton 2015, 2015 | Zora Festival! Zora Neale Hurston Creative-Writing Workshop Library Reference Guide, © 2016 bookista media group

Reference Guide created for the Zora Festival! - Creative Writing Workshop for High School Students

A Place for All People: Introducing the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) National Museum of African American History and Culture, September 2016 - December 2017

Commemorative Poster Exhibition

Tags: For All People, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian, Traveling Exhibitions

African American Club Photos: Pricilla Art Club, Pricilla Art Club of Dallas, Texas, Etta Williams Culmer, Pricilla Art Club Historian, Photo was taken on December 31, 1968.

Annual Pricilla Art Club, 1968 Christmas Party held in Dallas, Texas

Tags: Art Clubs, Black Women's Clubs, Dallas, Pricilla Art Club, Texas