African American artists
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Mary A. Bell Drawings
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 153
Abstract:
A collection of one hundred drawings by the self-taught African American artist Mary A. Bell, featuring glamorously dressed and accessorized women and men engaged in courtship activities, or women centered in domestic or garden settings. Many of the images have religious iconography as well as animals, birds, plants, and children, with houses or other buildings placed distantly in the background. The drawings range in size from 78 x 52 to 51 x 39 cm. and were executed in crayon, colored...
Dates:
[1936-1939]
Tom Feelings artwork
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 74
Scope and Contents:
The collection consists of original artwork, dummies, prints, posters, professional and personal papers, and audiovisual materials documenting Tom Feelings's work as an artist and book illustrator. The collection includes the original artwork for The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo, which consists of 51 drawings, currently housed in 47 frames, created in mixed-media tempera, pen and tissue, heightened with white and collage; the artwork...
Dates:
1940s-2010
Jan van Raay photographs of art strike protests
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1329
Abstract:
The collection contains black-and-white photographs by Jan van Raay documenting strikes, demonstrations, protests, sit-ins, happenings, and other events in New York City, primarily at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photographs depict actions including the Art Strike against Racism, Sexism, Repression, War; the PASTA MoMA union strike; demonstrations and marches in support of the Panther 21, Black and Puerto Rican artists, and abortion rights; and The...
Dates:
1969-1974
Masood Ali Wilbert Warren Papers
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 32
Abstract:
The Masood Ali Wilbert Warren Papers includes sketchbooks, sketches, and drawings created by Warren, 1933-1988, as well as photographs and collected material.
Dates:
1933-1988