Bibliography and Exhibitions

MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

Saar, Betye.
Personal Selection. Temple for Tomorrow [JAMES HAMPTON].
1994.
In: American Art. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution [subsequently Smithsonian Institution Studies in American Art; Washington, DC] Issue 8 (Summer/Fall 1994):130-33. Saar's writing on James Hampton's throne, including her first reactions to it; biog., illus.

Saar, Betye.
Personal Selection: Temple for Tomorrow.
Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1994.
In: American Art 8 (Summer/Fall 1994): 130-33, illus. Discussion of James Hampton's throne. 4to, wraps.

Washington (DC). National Museum of American Art.
JAMES HAMPTON: The Throne of the Third Millennium of the Nations' General Assembly Unpag.
N.d. (c. 1977).
(8 pp.) exhib. cat., 10 b&w illus. (including cover plate). Text by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan. Room-sized collage construction predominantly covered in gold and silver foil, all inspired by the Book of Revelations as well as mystical visitations and visions. Hampton was a self-taught Washington artist. Small sq. 4to, stapled wraps.

GENERAL BOOKS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

ARNETT, PAUL and WILLIAM, eds.
Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South Vol. 1: The Tree Gave the Dove a Leaf.
Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2000.
544 pp., 756 color plates, 55 b&w illus. Texts by 37 major scholars and African American writers (including a brilliant piece by Amiri Baraka), bibliog., index. Artists include: Jesse Aaron, Leroy Almon, Sr., Benny Andrews, George Andrews, Steve Ashby, Eldren M. Bailey, Hawkins Bolden, Richard Burnside, Vernon Burwell, Archie Byron, Ulysses S. Davis, Arthur Dial, Thornton Dial Sr., Thornton Dial, Jr., Sam Doyle, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Nora Ezell, Ralph Griffin, Dilmus Hall, Sandy Hall, James Hampton, Alyne Harris, Bessie Harvey, William Hawkins, Theodore Hill, Lonnie Holley, Clementine Hunter, Anderson Johnson, Frank Jones, Joe Light, Ronald Lockett, Charlie Lucas, J.T. McCord, Joe Minter, Sister Gertrude Morgan, J. B. Murry, Elijah Pierce, Harriet Powers, Royal Robertson, Juanita Rogers, Nellie Mae Rowe, Lorenzo Scott, Herbert Singleton, Mary Tillman Smith, Georgia Alice Speller, Henry Speller, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, James Son Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Luster Willis, Joseph E. Yoakum, Dinah Young, Purvis Young, and others. Large sq. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed.

ARNETT, WILLIAM and PAUL.
Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art Vol. 2.
Atlanta: Tinwood Books, 2001.
612 pp., 1008 color illus., bibliog., index. Massive reference work. Seven important critical texts by Thomas McEvilley, Theophus Smith, Jane Livingston, John W. Roberts, Lowery Stokes Sims, et al., plus chapters on 32 individual artists. Includes: James Arnold, Betty Avery, Hawkins Bolden, David Butler, Chocolate Byrd, Asberry Davis, Rev. Harmon D. Dennis, Thornton Dial, Richard Dial, Thornton Dial, Jr., Pearl Fryar, Osker Gilchrist (traditional healer), James Hampton, Ronnie Holley, Robert Howell, Rev. George Kornegay, Joe Light, Ronald Lockett, Charlie Lucas, Jesse Marshall, Joe Minter, Mary T. Smith, Leroy Person, Mary Proctor, Cleveland Turner, Dinah Young, Purvis Young, Charles Williams, and many others mentioned in passing. Large 4to (12.7 x 10.8 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.

BEARDSLEY, JOHN.
Gardens of Revelation: Environments by Visionary Artists.
New York: Abbeville, 1995.
214 pp., illus., bibliog. Artists discussed include: James Hampton, Lonnie Holley, Felix "Fox" Harris, David Butler, Sam Doyle, Nellie Mae Rowe, Tyree Guyton. [Reprinted in 2003.] 4to, cloth, d.j.

BOLDEN, TONYA.
Wake up our Souls: A Celebration of Black American Artists.
New York: Abrams in association with Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2004.
128 pp., photo of each artist and 1-3 color illustrations for each, notes, glossary of art terms, bibliog., suggested reading, index. Written for young adults. Includes 32 artists:: Edward Mitchell Bannister, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Robert Scott Duncanson, Melvin Edwards, James Hampton, Palmer Hayden, Felrath Hines, Earlie Hudnall, Jr., William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Malvin Gray Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Winnie Owens-Hart, Gordon Parks, James Porter, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Augusta Savage, Renée Stout, Hughie Lee-Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, James VanDerZee, Hale Woodruff. 4to (27 cm.), cloth, d.j. First ed.

COLUMBIA (SC). Columbia Museum of Art.
Conflict and Transcendence. African-American Art in South Carolina.
August 28-December 13, 1992.
40 pp. exhib. cat., illus. Texts by Theresa S. Singleton, Thomas L. Johnson and curator Frank Martin (Context & Culture: Art, Race and Interpretive Bias in Selected Works of Contemporary African American Art from South Carolina). Artists exhibited: Dave the Potter, Edwin Harleston, Elise F. Harleston, James V. Herring, William H. Johnson, Richard Samuel Roberts, Philip Simmons, Merton Simpson, Tarleton Blackwell, Beverly Buchanan, Sam Doyle, Joseph Gandy, MacArthur Goodwin, Jonathan Green, Jesse Guinyard, James Hampton, Harry Harrison, Larry Jordan, Dan Robert Miller, Otto Neals, Colin Quashie, Arthur Rose, Robert Spencer, Maxwell Taylor, Joann Thompson, Leo Twiggs, Edward Webster, Winston Wingo. Additional artists mentioned in text: Rich Williams, Aaron Douglas, Charles Spears, Jr., Elton Fax, Edward B. Webster, Adrian Piper. [Traveled to: Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Florence Museum of Art and Science, May 3-July 2, 1993; Winthrop College Gallery, Rock Hill, SC; I. P. Stanback Museum and Planetarium, South Carolina State College, Orangeburg; Sumter Gallery of Art, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC.] 4to (26 cm.), wraps. First ed.

CONWILL, KINSHASHA HOLMAN.
Another Perspective. In Search of an 'Authentic' Vision. Decoding the Appeal of the Self-Taught African-American Artist.
Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1991.
In: American Art 5 (Fall 1991):(2)-9, color illus. A discussion of the comparative appeal of black self-taught versus professionally trained artists. Includes: William Dawson, William Edmondson, James Hampton, Lonnie Holley, Charlie Lucas, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Nellie Mae Rowe, James Thomas, Bill Traylor, Joseph Yoakum. Melvin Edwards, Maren Hassinger, Howardena Pindell. Horace Pippin, Harriet Powers, Romare Bearden, Willi Posey, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Faith Ringgold. 4to, wraps.

FINE, GARY ALAN.
Everyday Genius: Self-Taught Art and the Culture of Authenticity.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
340 pp., illus., index. Includes over fifty African American artists: Jesse Aaron, Leroy Almon, George Andrews, Steve Ashby, Amiri Baraka, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roger Brown, David Butler, Archie Byron, Ulysses S. Davis, William Dawson, Thornton Dial, Sam Doyle, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Walter Flax, Sybil Gibson, Tyree Guyton, Dilmus Hall, James Hampton, Bessie Harvey, Gerald Hawkes, William L. Hawkins, Lonnie Holley, Clementine Hunter, Willie Jinks, Frank Albert Jones, Eddie Lee Kendrick, Ronald Lockett, Charlie Lucas, Sister Gertrude Morgan, J. B. Murry, Inez Nathaniel-Walker, Leslie Payne, David Philpot, Elijah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Nellie Mae Rowe, Kevin Sampson, Earl Simmons, Bernice Sims, Herbert Singleton, Charles Smith, Mary T. Smith, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, James (Son) Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Gregory Warmack (Mr. Imagination), George White, George Williams, Luster Willis, Joseph Yoakum, Purvis Young. Small 4to (9 x 6.3 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.

GATES, HENRY LOUIS and EVELYN BROOKS HIGGINBOTHAM, eds.
African American National Biography.
2009.
Published in 8 volumes. Also online database of biographies, accessible to paid subscribers. As per update of February 2, 2009, the following artists were included in the 8-volume set, plus addenda: Jesse Aaron, Julien Abele (architect), John H. Adams, Jr., Ron Adams, Salimah Ali, James Latimer Allen, Charles H. Alston, Amalia Amaki, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, William E. Artis, Herman "Kofi" Bailey, Walter T. Bailey (architect), James Presley Ball, Edward M. Bannister, Anthony Barboza, Ernie Barnes, Richmond Barthé, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cornelius Marion Battey, Romare Bearden, Phoebe Beasley, Arthur Bedou, Mary A. Bell, Cuesta Ray Benberry, Margaret Bibb, John Biggers, Camille Billops, John Bingham, Alpha Blackburn, Robert H. Blackburn, Walter Scott Blackburn, Melvin R. Bolden, David Bustill Bowser, Wallace Branch, Barbara Brandon, Grafton Tyler Brown, Richard Lonsdale Brown, Barbara Bullock, Selma Hortense Burke, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs, John Bush, Elmer Simms Campbell, Elizabeth Catlett, David C. Chandler, Jr., Raven Chanticleer, Ed Clark, Allen Eugene Cole, Robert H. Colescott, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest T. Crichlow, Michael Cummings, Dave the Potter, Griffith J. Davis, Thomas Day, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Thornton Dial, Sr., Joseph Eldridge Dodd, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, Sam Doyle, David Clyde Driskell, Robert S. Duncanson, Mel Edwards, Minnie Jones Evans, William McNight Farrow, Elton Fax, Meta Warrick Fuller, Daniel Freeman, Reginald Gammon, King Daniel Ganaway, the Goodridge Brothers, Rex Goreleigh, Tyree Guyton, James Hampton, Della Brown Taylor (Hardman), Edwin Augustus Harleston, Charles "Teenie" Harris, Lyle Ashton Harris, Bessie Harvey, Isaac Scott Hathaway, Palmer Hayden, Nestor Hernandez, George Joseph Herriman, Varnette Honeywood, Walter Hood, Richard L. Hunster, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Bill Hutson, Joshua Johnson, Sargent Claude Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Ann Keesee, Gwendolyn Knight, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, Samella Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Jules Lion, Edward Love, Estella Conwill Majozo, Ellen Littlejohn, Kerry James Marshall, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Richard Mayhew, Carolyn Mazloomi, Aaron Vincent McGruder, Robert H. McNeill, Scipio Moorhead, Archibald H. Motley, Jr., Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Mr. Imagination, Lorraine O'Grady, Jackie Ormes, Joe Overstreet, Carl Owens, Gordon Parks, Sr., Gordon Parks, Jr., C. Edgar Patience, Howardena Pindell, Adrian Margaret Smith Piper, Rose Piper, Horace Pippin, William Sidney Pittman, Stephanie Pogue, Prentice Herman Polk, James Amos Porter, Harriet Powers, Elizabeth Prophet, Martin Puryear, Patrick Henry Reason, Michael Richards, Arthur Rose, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, Augusta Scott, Joyce J. Scott, Addison Scurlock, George Scurlock, Willie Brown Seals, Charles Sebree, Joe Selby, Lorna Simpson, Norma Merrick Sklarek, Clarissa Sligh, Albert Alexander Smith, Marvin and Morgan Smith, Maurice B. Sorrell, Simon Sparrow, Rozzell Sykes, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, J.J. Thomas, Robert Louis Thompson, Mildred Jean Thompson, Dox Thrash, William Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Leo F. Twiggs, James Augustus Joseph Vanderzee, Kara Walker, William Onikwa Wallace, Laura Wheeler Waring, Augustus Washington, James W. Washington, Jr., Carrie Mae Weems, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, John H. White, Jack Whitten, Carla Williams, Daniel S. Williams, Paul Revere Williams, Deborah Willis, Ed Wilson, Ellis Wilson, Fred Wilson, John Woodrow Wilson, Ernest C. Withers, Beulah Ecton Woodard, Hale Aspacio Woodruff.

GATES, HENRY LOUIS, JR. and EVELYN BROOKS HIGGINBOTHAM, ed.
African American Lives.
Oxford University Press, 2004.
1080 pp. biographies of 611 African-Americans over more than four centuries, of which some 257 of the entries have been reprinted from American National Biography (Oxford, 1999). For far more entries on women than are found here, the reader should consult Darlene Clark Hine's Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (Carlson, 1993). The visual artists include a heavily skewed emphasis on photographers which seems to have come from copying the entries in Deborah Willis's Black Photographers: 1940-1988, without doing the same for any of the equivalent research on African American painters, sculptors, printmakers, etc. Hopefully this will be remedied in some future edition. Includes (among many others): Jesse James Aaron, Randy Abbott, Lancy O'Neal Abel, Julian Francis Abele, Billy (Fundi) Abernathy, Alonzo J. Aden, Terry Adkins, Jim Alexander, Salimah Ali, James Lattimer Allen, Jules Allen, Vance Allen, Winifred Hall Allen, Charles H. Alston, Frederick C. Alston, Emma Amos, Allie Anderson, Gordon Anderson, Ron Akili Anderson, William J. Anderson, Benny Andrews, Bert Andrews, Darius Anthony, John Arterberry, William E. Artist, Thomas E. Askew, John James Audubon, Gene Austin, Calvin Bailey, George Edward Bailey, Herman Kofi Bailey, J. Edward Bailey, Malcolm Bailey, Josephine Baker, James Presley Ball, Henry Bannarn, Edward M. Bannister, Anthony Barboza, Donnamarie Barnes, Ernie Barnes, Vanessa Barnes-Hillian, Edward Barnett, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, Erlena Chisholm Bland, Elmer Simms Campbell, Beauford Delaney, Aaron Douglas, William M. Farrow, Meta Warrick Fuller, Edwin A. Harleston, Palmer Hayden, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Archibald J. Motley, Marion James Porter, James A. Porter, Augusta Savage, Albert A. Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, James Lesesne Wells, Hale Woodruff, et al. [No others cross-referenced in this database since there did not seem to be any new information here.] 4to (11.6 x 8.1 in.), cloth.

GUNDAKER, GARY.
Tradition and Innovation in African-American Yards.
1993.
In: African Arts 26, no. 2 (April 1993):58-71, 4 color, 20 b&w illus., notes. Important and well-illustrated article listing many artists not mentioned elsewhere. Includes: Ruby Gilmore, Annie S. Sturgill, Bennie Lusane, Henry Craig, Olivia Humphrey, Elijah Davenport, Gyp Packnett, James Hampton, Leroy Person. Notes mention other artists: Sister Gertrude Morgan, Daniel Pressley, Minnie Evans, J. B. Murry, Lonnie Holley, Zebedee B. Armstrong, Frank Albert Jones, David Butler, Mikelle Smith Omari. 4to, wraps.

HARTIGAN, LYNDA ROSCOE.
Going Urban: American Folk Art and the Great Migration.
2000.
In: American Art (summer 2000):26-51.

HARTIGAN, LYNDA ROSCOE.
Made with Passion: The Hemphill Folk Art Collection in the National Museum of American Art.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1990.
240 pp., 191 works, all illus. (most in color) with numerous additional text illus., full catalogue description and essay on many works, bibliog., index. Texts by Hartigan, Andrew L. Connors, Elizabeth Tisdel Holmstead, Tonia L. Horton. Dozens of pieces in all media from carving to sewing to neon shop lights by unidentified artists, some famous self-taught artists, Native American tribal art, and a choice collection of 20 African American artists: Steve Ashby, Patsy Billups (only mentioned in passing), David Butler, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Josephus Farmer, James Hampton, Bessie Harvey, William Hawkins, Clementine Hunter, Frank Jones, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Inez Nathaniel-Walker, Leslie Payne, Elijah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Simon Sparrow, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Joseph Yoakum. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed.

HORWITZ, ELINOR LANDER.
Contemporary American Folk Artists.
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1975.
144 pp., 135 b&w illus. and photos, color cover plate, bibliog., museum list, index. Photographs by Joshua Horwitz. Several women artists and a high proportion of Afro-American artists in this selection, notably: Sister Gertrude Morgan, Clementine Hunter, Inez Nathaniel Walker, Bruce Brice, Elijah Pierce, Walter Flax, James Hampton. Small 4to, 1/4 cloth, d.j. First ed.

LAFAYETTE (LA). University Art Museum, University of Southeastern Louisiana.
Baking in the Sun: Visionary images from the South: selections from the collection of Sylvia and Warren Lowe.
June 13-July 31, 1987.
146 pp. exhib. cat., b&w and color illus., sections for individual artists with photo and discussion of each, bibliog., checklist of 180 works. Substantial overview texts by co-authors Andy Nasisse and Maude Southwell Wahlman which include discussion of many artists not in the exhibition: David Butler, Sam Doyle, William Edmondson, Arester Earl, James Hampton, Bessie Harvey, J. B. Murry, Royal Robertson, Juanita Rogers, Nellie Mae Rowe, Mary T. Smith, Sarah Mary Taylor, Henry Speller, James "Son" Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Lizzie Wilkerson, George Williams, Luster Willis, Joseph Yoakum. [Traveled to: Meadows Museum of Art, Shreveport, LA, September 1-November 1, 1988: Alexandria Museum Visual Art Center, LA, March 26-April 30; Beaumont Art Museum, TX, May 7-July 10; Mississippi State Historical Museum, Jackson, MI, July 24-September 11; Georgia Museum of Art, September 25-November 27 and other venues.] 4to (28 cm.), wraps. First ed.

LORNELL, CHRISTOPHER.
Black Material Folk Culture.
1978.
In Southern Folklore Quarterly 42, nos. 2 & 3 (1978):287-94. A brief reference bibliography including sections on architecture, clay arts, miscellaneous arts, paintings, stone, wood, clay crafts, miscellaneous crafts, stone crafts, wood crafts. Artists include: James Thomas, James Hampton, David Driskell, Steve Ashby, Walter Flax, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Bruce Brice, Horace Pippin, Minnie Evans, Clementine Hunter, Inez Nathaniel, Nellie Mae Rowe, Lester Willis, George Scott, Olion Henderson, Elijah Pierce, Job, Jerome Carter, Preston Coleman, Daniel Pressley, Leon Rucker, Ulysses Davis, Virgil Davis, William Rogers, Alvin Jarrett, Peter Oliver, Dave the Potter, Jack Thurman, Jim Lee, Peter Simmons, Emmaline, Harriet Powers, Isaac Basden, Sidney Atwater, Coy Thompson, Siras Bowens, Phillip Simmons, William Edmondson, Thomas Day, James Cooper, William Brown, Alfred Wilcher, Lonnie Davis, Henry Gudgell, Beulah Perry.

MCWILLIE, JUDY and GREY GUNDAKER.
No Space Hidden: The Spirit of African American Yard Work.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005.
264 pp., 197 illus. (19 in color.) Presents an invaluable amount of new material both in the number of artists discussed and the analysis of their common imagery and concerns. Includes: Zebedee B. Armstrong, E.M. Bailey, Hawkins Bolden, Cyrus Bowens, Henry Craig, Henry Luke Faust, Ralph Griffin, Dilmus Hall, Estelle Hamler, James Hampton, Bishop Washington Harris, Bessie Harvey, Sam Hogue, Lonnie Holley, Olivia Humphrey, Rev. George Kornegay, Bennie Lusane, Victor Melancon, Robert Montgomery, J.B. Murry, Mary Tillman Smith, Annie Sturghill, Eddie Williamson, Robert Watson, and others. 8vo (26 x 21 cm.), wraps.

MEYER, GEORGE H., ed.
Folk Artists Biographical Index.
Detroit: Gale Research, in association with the Museum of American Folk Art, 1987.
Artist entries include name, birth/death information, period and location of activity, ethnicity, type of work, museum collections, and sources. Includes some very highly educated art school graduates, craft professionals, along with the more obvious collection of "folk artists." The following artists are included: Jesse Aaron, Leroy Almon, Steve Ashby, Sampson Augustus, Baddler, Leslie Bollinger, Bruce Brice, William Henry Brown, John P. Burr, J. C. "Jack" Burris (puppetmaker), David Butler, J. G. Chaplin, Irene Clark, Leon "Peck" Clark, Bea Coaxum, Clark Coe, William Craft, Harry Crane, Cleo Crawford, Allan Rohan Crite (an absurd entry in this context), Dave, Alfred "Shoe" Davis, Ulysses Davis, Virgil Davis, William Dawson, Thomas Day, Ellen Dicus, William H. Dorsey, Robert M. Douglass Jr., Sam Doyle, William Edmondson [as Edmonson], Emmaline, Minnie Evans, Josephus Farmer, Leonard Fields, Marvin Finn, Thomas Jefferson Flanagan, Walter Flax, Mary Lou Foreman, Regina Foreman, Ezekiel Gibbs, William O. Golding, Henry Gudgell, James Hampton [listed as John (James) Hampton], Harley, Robert Hemp, G. W. Hobbs [now known to be white], Clementine Hunter, Job, Joe, Joshua Johnson, Frank Jones, Gerritt Loguen, Rance "Bone" Maddov, Jr., Ralph Middleton, Howard Miller, Mahulda Mize, Scipio Moorhead, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Emma Lee Moss, Inez Nathaniel, Ned, Leslie J. Payne, Alexander Pickhil, Elijah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Harriet Powers, Nelson Primus, "Rhenae", Juanita Rogers, William Rogers, Nellie Mae Rowe, Sarah "Old Aunt Sarah" [embroiderer], Peter Simmons, Philip Simmons, Jewel Simon, William Simpson, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Sutton [Sultan Rogers], Jessie Telfair, James "Son Ford" Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Lucinda Toomer, Bill Traylor, Vidal, Pecolia Warner, James Washington, George White, Lizzie Wilkerson, George Williams [as William], Jeff Williams, Luster Willis, A. B. Wilson, Joseph E. Yoakum.

MILLER, JOYCE.
The African Influence on Vernacular African-American Visual Arts in the South.
1991.
In: Mississippi Folklore Register 25 & 26 (1991-92):51-56. Includes mention of: James Hampton, J. B. Murray, Cyrus Bowens, Mary Tillman Smith, Dilmus Hall, Henry Dorsey, Joe Light, Sultan Rogers, Jesse Aaron, and James "Son Ford" Thomas.

MINNEAPOLIS (MN). Walker Art Center.
Naives and Visionaries.
New York: Dutton, 1974.
100 pp., over 100 illus. (12 in color), exhib. checklist of approx. 76 works, bibliog. Texts by different critics on eight American outsider artists including one African American: James Hampton. 4to (26 cm.), wraps. First ed.

NEW YORK (NY)..
The New York Public Library African American Desk Reference.
Wiley, 1999.
Includes a short and dated list of the usual 100+ artists, with a considerable New York bias, and a random handful of Haitian artists, reflecting the collection at the Schomburg: architect Julian Francis Abele. Josephine Baker, Edward M. Bannister, Amiri Baraka, Richmond Barthé, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, John T. Biggers, Camille Billops, Bob Blackburn, Betty Blayton, Frank Bowling, Grafton Tyler Brown, Selma Burke, Margaret Burroughs, David Butler, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Edward Clark, Robert Colescott, Ernest Crichlow, Emilio Cruz, William Dawson, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Aaron Douglas, John Dowell, Robert S. Duncanson, John Dunkley, William Edmondson, Melvin Edwards, Minnie Evans, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Sam Gilliam, Henry Gudgell, David Hammons, James Hampton, William A. Harper, Bessie Harvey, Isaac Hathaway, Albert Huie, Eugene Hyde, Jean-Baptiste Jean, Florian Jenkins, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Lois Mailou Jones, Lou Jones, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Ronald Joseph, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, Georges Liautaud, Seresier Louisjuste, Richard Mayhew, Jean Metellus, Oscar Micheaux, David Miller, Scipio Moorhead, Archibald J. Motley, Abdias do Nascimento, Philomé Obin, Joe Overstreet, Gordon Parks, David Philpot, Elijah Pierce, Howardena Pindell, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, David Pottinger, Harriet Powers, Martin Puryear, Gregory D. Ridley, Faith Ringgold, Sultan Rogers, Leon Rucker, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, Augusta Savage, William Edouard Scott, Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene, Ntozake Shange, Philip Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Moneta J. Sleet, Vincent D. Smith, Micius Stephane, Renée Stout, SUN RA, Alma Thomas, Neptune Thurston, Mose Tolliver (as Moses), Bill Traylor, Gerard Valcin, James Vanderzee, Melvin Van Peebles. Derek Walcott, Kara Walker, Eugene Warburg, Laura Wheeler Waring, James W. Washington, Barrington Watson, Carrie Mae Weems, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Jack Whitten, Lester Willis, William T. Williams, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Richard Yarde. 8vo (9.1 x 7.5 in.), cloth, d.j.

NEW YORK (NY). IBM Museum of Science and Art.
Religious Folk Art in America: Reflections of Faith.
December 9, 1983-January 21, 1984.
Exhib. catalogue, illus., bibliog. Texts by C. Kurt Dewhurst, Betty MacDowell, Marsha MacDowell. African American artists included: Cyrus Bowens, Luther Goins, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, James Hampton, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Elijah Pierce, Harriet Powers, Nat Turner.

OPITZ, GLENN B. ed.
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to the Present.
Poughkeepsie: Apollo, 1984.
Includes: Charles Alston, William Artis, Annabelle Baker, Richmond Barthé, Edward Bereal, John Biggers, Leslie Bolling, Selma Burke, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Harold Cousins, Frederick Eversley, Florville Foy, Charlotte White Franklin, James Hampton, Richard Hunt, May Howard Jackson, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Lester Johnson, Sargent Johnson, Edmonia Lewis, Juan Logan, Lester Nathan Matthews, Valerie Maynard, Ned [Brown], Daniel G. Olney, Hayward Oubré, Curtis Patterson, Elliott Pinkney, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Martin Puryear, John Rhoden, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Jewel Woodard Simon, Robert J. Stull, Bill Taylor (William Badley Taylor], Rod Allen Taylor, Dox Thrash, Eugene Warburg, Meta Vaux Warrick [Fuller], James W. Washington, Jr., and Todd Williams.

OTFINOSKI, STEVEN.
African Americans in the Visual Arts.
New York: Facts on File, 2003.
x, 262 pp., 50 b&w photos of some artists, brief 2-page bibliog., index. Part of the A to Z of African Americans series. Lists 170 visual artists (including 18 photographers) and 22 filmmakers with brief biographies and token bibliog. for each. Includes a few uncommon entries such as Michael Kelly Williams while leaving out innumerable major artists, all video and performance art. 8vo (25 com), laminated papered boards.

PATTON, SHARON F.
African American Art.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
319 pp., illus. throughout in color and b&w, notes, list of illus., timeline, index. Excellent new survey covering approximately 108 artists from Scipio Moorhead to Dawoud Bey, including 22 women artists: Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Malcolm Bailey, James Presley Ball, Henry (Mike) Bannarn, Edward Bannister, Dutreuil Barjon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, Peter Bentzon, Dawoud Bey, Bob Blackburn, Grafton Tyler Brown, Vivian E. Browne, Jacob (Jacoba) Bunel, Elizabeth Catlett, Dana Chandler, Ed Clark, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Houston Conwill, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Dave (the Potter), Thomas Day, Beauford Delaney, Jean-Louis Dolliole, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, Robert M. Douglass, Robert S. Duncanson, William Edmondson, Melvin Edwards, Minnie Evans. Frederick J. Eversley, John Frances, Meta Fuller, Reginald Gammon, Herbert Gentry, Sam Gilliam, Celestin Glapion, Thomas Goss, Jr., Henry Gudgell, David Hammons, James Hampton, Maren Hassinger, Palmer Hayden, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Richard Hunt, Bill Hutson, Clifford L. Jackson, May Howard Jackson, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Oliver Jackson, Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Daniel Larue Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Ben Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Jules Lion, Tom Lloyd, Al Loving, Richard Mayhew, Sam Middleton, Scipio Moorhead, Keith Morrison, Archibald Motley, Ademola Olugebefola, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Howardena Pindell, Adrian Piper, Rose Piper, Horace Pippin, Harriet Powers, Noah Purifoy, Martin Puryear, Patrick Reason, Faith Ringgold, Jean Rousseau, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, Augusta Savage, Addison Scurlock, Lorna Simpson, Merton D. Simpson, Vincent D. Smith, Thelma Streat, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Dox Thrash, James Vanderzee, Christian Walker, William W. Walker, Eugene Warburg, Charles White, Pat Ward Williams, Walter J. Williams, Hale Woodruff. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed

POWELL, RICHARD J.
Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century.
New York: Thames and Hudson, 1997.
256 pp., 176 illus. (including 31 in color), biog. notes, list of illus., bibliog. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed.

POWELL, RICHARD J.
Black Art: A Cultural History.
London: Thames & Hudson, 2002.
272 pp., 192 illus. including 39 in color, biog. notes, list of illus., index. Revised and slightly enlarged from 1997 edition. 8vo, wraps. Second Revised ed.

RHODES, COLIN.
Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives.
Thames & Hudson, 2000.
224 pp., illus., bibliog., list of illus., index. Broad survey. Includes sections on Afro-American and African artists but quite a few black artists scattered elsewhere in the book, as well as several sophisticated "insider" artists influenced by outsider art: Steve Ashby, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sonia Boyce, Leonard Daley, Djilatendo, Sam Doyle, Ekong Emmanuel Ekefrey, Minnie Evans, James Hampton, Tshibumba Kanda Matulu, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Kane Kwei, Cheik Ledy, J.B. Murry, Allina Ndebele, Tshyela Ntendu, Chris Ofili, Kwesi Owusu, Leroy Person, Chéri Samba, Twins Seven-Seven, Mary T. Smith, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Joseph Yoakum. 8vo (8.1 x 5.9 in.). First ed.

RIGGS, THOMAS, ed.
St. James Guide to Black Artists.
Detroit: St. James Press, 1997.
xxiv, 625 pp., illus. A highly selective reference work listing only approximately 400 artists of African descent worldwide (including around 300 African American artists, approximately 20% women artists.) Illus. of work or photos of many artists, brief descriptive texts by well-known scholars, with selected list of exhibitions for each, plus many artists' statements. A noticeable absence of many artists under 45, most photographers, and many women artists. Far fewer artists listed here than in Igoe, Cederholm, or other sources. Stout 4to (29 cm.), laminated yellow papered boards. First ed.

ROSENAK, CHUCK and JAN ROSENAK.
Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Folk Art and Artists.
New York: Abbeville Press, 1990.
414 pp., illus. in color and b&w. With contributions by Robert Bishop, Barbara Cate, Lee Kogan. Includes 255 biographies with statements by artists, general and artistic background, subjects, sources, materials, and an illustration for each artist. Includes information on numerous black folk artists: Jesse Aaron, Leroy Almon, Sr., Zebedee Armstrong, Jr., Steven Ashby, John Willard Banks, Prophet William J. Blackmon, Bruce Brice, Vernon Burwell, David Butler, Henry Ray Clark, Abraham Lincoln Criss, Patrick Davis, Ulysses Davis, William Dawson, Thornton Dial, Sr., Thornton Dial, Jr., Richard Dial, Sam Doyle, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Rev. Josephus Farmer, Walter Flax, Ezekiel Gibbs, Ralph Griffin, James Hampton, Bessie Harvey, Gerald Hawkes, William Lawrence Hawkins, Lonnie Holley, Clementine Hunter, Frank Jones, Joe Louis Light, Ronald Lockett, Charlie Lucas, J. T. Jake McCord, Robert J. Marino, Willie Massey, Ike Morgan, Sister Gertrude Morgan, J. B. Murry, Inez Nathaniel-Walker, William W. C. Owens, Leslie J. Payne, Elijah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Naomi Howard Polk, Daniel Pressley, Prophet Royal Robertson, Juanita Rogers, Sultan Rogers, Nellie Mae Rowe, James J. P. Scott, Herbert Singleton, Mary T. Smith, Simon Sparrow, Henry Speller, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Reverend Johnnie Swearingen, Sarah Mary Taylor, James Henry (Son Ford) Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Felix Virgous, Derek Webster, George W. White, Jr., Lizzie Wilkerson, George Williams, Luster Willis, Joseph Elmer Yoakum. Selected public collections, list of exhibitions with participating artists listed. 4to (10.25 x 9 in.), gilt-stamped burgundy cloth, d.j. First ed.

RUSSELL, CHARLES, ed.
Self-taught Art: the Culture and Aesthetics of American Vernacular Art.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001.
x, 201 pp., 32 pp. plates (some in color), substantial bibliography, index. Outstanding collection of 11 critical essays on vernacular art by Charles Russell, Ellen Dissanayake, Michael Owen Jones, Arthur C. Danto, Roger Cardinal, Russell Bowman, Randall Morris, Sharon Patton, Maude Southwell Wahlman, and Alison Weld. Artists mentioned include: Jesse Aaron, Steve Ashby, Hawkins Bolden, David Scott Brown, Roger Brown, David Butler, Archie Byron, Henry Rae Clark, Arthur Dial, Buddy Jake Dial, Mattie Dial, Thornton Dial, Sam Doyle, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Ralph Griffin, Tyree Guyton, Dilmus Hall, James Hampton, Bessie Harvey, Gerald Hawkes, William Hawkins, Lonnie Holley, Clementine Hunter, Hector Hyppolite, Frank Jones, Joe Light, Ronald Lockett, Sister Gertrude Morgan, J.B. Murry, Leroy Person, Elijah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Pearlie Posey, Harriet Powers, Royal Robertson, Juanita Rogers, Nellie Mae Rowe, Mary T. Smith, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Sarah Mary Taylor, James (Son) Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Horace Pippin, Joseph Yoakum, and Purvis Young. 4to (26 cm), cloth. First ed.

RUSSELL, CHARLES, ed.
Self-Taught Art: The Culture and Aesthetics of American Vernacular Art.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001.
201 pp., 32 color plates, 72 b&w illus., index. Texts by Russell Bowman, Roger Cardinal, Arthur C. Danto, Ellen Dissanayake, Michael Owen Jones, Randall Morris, Sharon Patton, Charles Russell, Maude Southwell Wahlman, and Alison Weld. Includes: Jesse Aaron, Z.B. Armstrong, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Butler, Henry Ray Clark, Archie Byron, Arthur Dial, Buddie Jake Dial, Mattie Dial, Thornton Dial, Sam Doyle, Arester Earl, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Ralph Griffin, Tyree Guyton, Dilmus Hall, James Hampton, Bessie Harvey, Gerald Hawkes, William Hawkins, Lonnie Holley, Clementine Hunter, Hector Hyppolite, Clyde Jones, Frank Albert Jones, Joe Light, Ronald Lockett, Errol McKenzie, Sister Gertrude Morgan, J.B. Murry, Leroy Person, Elijah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Pearlie Posey, Harriet Powers, Royal Robertson, Juanita Rogers, Nellie Mae Rowe, Bernice Sims, Mary T. Smith, Henry Speller, Renee Stout, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Rev. Johnnie Swearingen, Sarah Mary Taylor, James "Son" Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Charles Williams (Kentucky sculptor), Joseph Yoakum. 4to (11.8 x 6.4 in.)

SELLEN, BETTY-CAROL and CYNTHIA J JOHANSON.
Self-Taught, Outsider, and Folk Art: A Guide to American Artists, Locations and Resources.
Jefferson (NC): McFarland, 2000.
Compilation of American folk, outsider and self taught artists. It also includes gallery locations, fairs, festivals, exhibitions, auctions and organizations. The majority of the book is devoted to brief biographical sketches. Includes: Jesse Aaron, Leroy Almon, George Andrews, Z. B. Armstrong, Steve Ashby, John W. Banks, Hawkins Bolden, Bruce Brice, Richard Burnside, Vernon Burwell, David Butler, W. A. Cooper, Walter F. Cotton, L. W. Crawford, Ulysses Davis, William Dawson, Mattie Dial, Thornton Dial, Sr., Thornton Dial, Jr., Sam Doyle, Vanzant Driver, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Amos Ferguson, Marvin Finn, Thomas Jefferson Flanagan, Ezekiel Gibbs, William O. Golding, Mary Gordon, Ralph Griffin, Dilmus Hall, James Hampton, Bob "Fan Man" Harper, Bessie Harvey, William Hawkins, Geoffrey Holder, Lonnie Holley, Sylvanus Hudson, Clementine Hunter, Alvin Jarrett, Anderson Johnson, M. C. Five-Cents Jones, Joe Light [and Light Family: Hosea Light, Mosea Light, Rachele Light, Rebekah Light, Rosie Lee Light], Ronald Lockett, Jesse Lott, Annie Lucas, Charlie Lucas, John W. Mason, Willie Massey, Jake T. McCord, Mr. Imagination, Ike Morgan, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Emma Lee Moss, J. B. Murry, Sammie Nicely, Leslie Payne, Leroy Person, Philadelphia Wireman, David Philpot, Elijah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Naomi Polk, Daniel Pressley, Royal Robertson, Juanita Rogers, Sulton Rogers, Nellie Mae Rowe, J. P. Scott, Edward Smith, Mary T. Smith, Georgia Speller, Henry Speller, Vannoy Streeter, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Rev. Johnnie Swearingen, Willie Tarver, Sarah Mary Taylor, James "Son" Thomas, Annie Tolliver, Charles Tolliver, Mose Tolliver, Willie Mae Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Felix Virgous, Inez Nathaniel Walker, Arliss Watford, Willard Watson, Derek Webster, Della Wells, George White, Willie White, Lizzie Wilkerson, "Artist Chuckie" Williams, Jeff Williams, Luster Willis, Onis Woodard, Joseph Yoakum. 8vo, wraps.

SHEPHERD, ROBERT D., ed.
Grace Abounding: The Core Knowledge Anthology of African-American Literature, Music, and Art.
Charlottesville (VA): Core Knowledge Foundation, 2006.
910 pp., illus. A neo-conservative multi-cultural add-on. Designed for homeschoolers and teachers of Grades 4-10 with lesson plans, tests and answer keys, not priced as affordable text for students. Said to provide "insight into every facet of the African-American literary and arts tradition, tracing its development from African roots, through Emancipation, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black Arts Movement of the 1970s, all the way to the emergent voices of the twenty-first century." 36 artists are included, each with biog. blurb, illus., brief commentary on illus., several sample questions. includes: Charles Alston, William Artis, Edward M. Bannister, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Frederick Brown, Hilda Wilkinson Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, Irene Clark, Beauford Delaney, Louis J. Delsarte, Richard Dempsey, Aaron Douglas, David C. Driskell, Sam Gilliam, Rex Goreleigh, James Hampton, Sargent Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Edmonia Lewis, Hughie Lee-Smith, Richard Mayhew, Lev T. Mills. Scipio Moorhead, Gordon Parks, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, Charles Sallee, Augusta Savage, William E. Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma W. Thomas, James Vanderzee, Charles White, Hale Woodruff. 2nd ed. with CD

THOMISON, DENNIS.
The Black Artist in America: An Index to Reproductions.
Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1991.
Includes: index to Black artists, bibliography (including doctoral dissertations and audiovisual materials.) Many of the dozens of spelling errors and incomplete names have been corrected in this entry and names of known white artists omitted from our entry, but errors may still exist in this entry, so beware: Jesse Aaron, Charles Abramson, Maria Adair, Lauren Adam, Ovid P. Adams, Ron Adams, Terry Adkins, (Jonathan) Ta Coumba T. Aiken, Jacques Akins, Lawrence E. Alexander, Tina Allen, Pauline Alley-Barnes, Charles Alston, Frank Alston, Charlotte Amevor, Emma Amos (Levine), Allie Anderson, Benny Andrews, Edmund Minor Archer, Pastor Argudin y Pedroso [as Y. Pedroso Argudin], Anna Arnold, Ralph Arnold, William Artis, Kwasi Seitu Asante [as Kwai Seitu Asantey], Steve Ashby, Rose Auld, Ellsworth Ausby, Henry Avery, Charles Axt, Roland Ayers, Annabelle Bacot, Calvin Bailey, Herman Kofi Bailey, Malcolm Bailey, Annabelle Baker, E. Loretta Ballard, Jene Ballentine, Casper Banjo, Bill Banks, Ellen Banks, John W. Banks, Henry Bannarn, Edward Bannister, Curtis R. Barnes, Ernie Barnes, James MacDonald Barnsley, Richmond Barthé, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Daniel Carter Beard, Romare Bearden, Phoebe Beasley, Falcon Beazer, Arthello Beck, Sherman Beck, Cleveland Bellow, Gwendolyn Bennett, Herbert Bennett, Ed Bereal, Arthur Berry, Devoice Berry, Ben Bey, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Willie Birch, Eloise Bishop, Robert Blackburn, Tarleton Blackwell, Lamont K. Bland, Betty Blayton, Gloria Bohanon, Hawkins Bolden, Leslie Bolling, Shirley Bolton, Higgins Bond, Erma Booker, Michael Borders, Ronald Boutte, Siras Bowens, Lynn Bowers, Frank Bowling, David Bustill Bowser, David Patterson Boyd, David Bradford, Harold Bradford, Peter Bradley, Fred Bragg, Winston Branch, Brumsic Brandon, James Brantley, William Braxton, Bruce Brice, Arthur Britt, James Britton, Sylvester Britton, Moe Brooker, Bernard Brooks, Mable Brooks, Oraston Brooks-el, David Scott Brown, Elmer Brown, Fred Brown, Frederick Brown, Grafton Brown, James Andrew Brown, Joshua Brown, Kay Brown, Marvin Brown, Richard Brown, Samuel Brown, Vivian Browne, Henry Brownlee, Beverly Buchanan, Selma Burke, Arlene Burke-Morgan, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Cecil Burton, Charles Burwell, Nathaniel Bustion, David Butler, Carole Byard, Albert Byrd, Walter Cade, Joyce Cadoo, Bernard Cameron, Simms Campbell, Frederick Campbell, Thomas Cannon (as Canon), Nicholas Canyon, John Carlis, Arthur Carraway, Albert Carter, Allen Carter, George Carter, Grant Carter, Ivy Carter, Keithen Carter, Robert Carter, William Carter, Yvonne Carter, George Washington Carver, Bernard Casey, Yvonne Catchings, Elizabeth Catlett, Frances Catlett, Mitchell Caton, Catti, Charlotte Chambless, Dana Chandler, John Chandler, Robin Chandler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Kitty Chavis, Edward Christmas, Petra Cintron, George Clack, Claude Clark Sr., Claude Lockhart Clark, Edward Clark, Irene Clark, LeRoy Clarke, Pauline Clay, Denise Cobb, Gylbert Coker, Marion Elizabeth Cole, Archie Coleman, Floyd Coleman, Donald Coles, Robert Colescott, Carolyn Collins, Paul Collins, Richard Collins, Samuel Collins, Don Concholar, Wallace Conway, Houston Conwill, William A. Cooper, Arthur Coppedge, Jean Cornwell, Eldzier Cortor, Samuel Countee, Harold Cousins, Cleo Crawford, Marva Cremer, Ernest Crichlow, Norma Criss, Allan Rohan Crite, Harvey Cropper, Geraldine Crossland, Rushie Croxton, Doris Crudup, Dewey Crumpler, Emilio Cruz, Charles Cullen (White artist), Vince Cullers, Michael Cummings, Urania Cummings, DeVon Cunningham, Samuel Curtis, William Curtis, Artis Dameron, Mary Reed Daniel, Aaron Darling, Alonzo Davis, Bing Davis, Charles Davis, Dale Davis, Rachel Davis, Theresa Davis, Ulysses Davis, Walter Lewis Davis, Charles C. Davis, William Dawson, Juette Day, Roy DeCarava, Avel DeKnight, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Nadine Delawrence, Louis Delsarte, Richard Dempsey, J. Brooks Dendy, III (as Brooks Dendy), James Denmark, Murry DePillars, Joseph DeVillis, Robert D'Hue, Kenneth Dickerson, Voris Dickerson, Charles Dickson, Frank Dillon, Leo Dillon, Robert Dilworth, James Donaldson, Jeff Donaldson, Lillian Dorsey, William Dorsey, Aaron Douglas, Emory Douglas, Calvin Douglass, Glanton Dowdell, John Dowell, Sam Doyle, David Driskell, Ulric S. Dunbar, Robert Duncanson, Eugenia Dunn, John Morris Dunn, Edward Dwight, Adolphus Ealey, Lawrence Edelin, William Edmondson, Anthony Edwards, Melvin Edwards, Eugene Eda [as Edy], John Elder, Maurice Ellison, Walter Ellison, Mae Engron, Annette Easley, Marion Epting, Melvyn Ettrick (as Melvin), Clifford Eubanks, Minnie Evans, Darrell Evers, Frederick Eversley, Cyril Fabio, James Fairfax, Kenneth Falana, Josephus Farmer, John Farrar, William Farrow, Malaika Favorite, Elton Fax, Tom Feelings, Claude Ferguson, Violet Fields, Lawrence Fisher, Thomas Flanagan, Walter Flax, Frederick Flemister, Mikelle Fletcher, Curt Flood, Batunde Folayemi, George Ford, Doyle Foreman, Leroy Foster, Walker Foster, John Francis, Richard Franklin, Ernest Frazier, Allan Freelon, Gloria Freeman, Pam Friday, John Fudge, Meta Fuller, Ibibio Fundi, Ramon Gabriel, Alice Gafford, West Gale, George Gamble, Reginald Gammon, Christine Gant, Jim Gary, Adolphus Garrett, Leroy Gaskin, Lamerol Gatewood, Herbert Gentry, Joseph Geran, Ezekiel Gibbs, William Giles, Sam Gilliam, Robert Glover, William Golding, Paul Goodnight, Erma Gordon, L. T. Gordon, Robert Gordon, Russell Gordon, Rex Goreleigh, Bernard Goss, Joe Grant, Oscar Graves, Todd Gray, Annabelle Green, James Green, Jonathan Green, Robert Green, Donald Greene, Michael Greene, Joseph Grey, Charles Ron Griffin, Eugene Grigsby, Raymond Grist, Michael Gude, Ethel Guest, John Hailstalk, Charles Haines, Horathel Hall, Karl Hall, Wesley Hall, Edward Hamilton, Eva Hamlin-Miller, David Hammons, James Hampton, Phillip Hampton, Marvin Harden, Inge Hardison, John Hardrick, Edwin Harleston, William Harper, Hugh Harrell, Oliver Harrington, Gilbert Harris, Hollon Harris, John Harris, Scotland J. B. Harris, Warren Harris, Bessie Harvey, Maren Hassinger, Thelma Hawkins, William Hawkins, Frank Hayden, Kitty Hayden, Palmer Hayden, William Hayden, Vertis Hayes, Anthony Haynes, Wilbur Haynie, Benjamin Hazard, June Hector, Dion Henderson, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, William Henderson, Barkley Hendricks, Gregory Henry, Robert Henry, Ernest Herbert, James Herring, Mark Hewitt, Leon Hicks, Renalda Higgins, Hector Hill, Felrath Hines, Alfred Hinton, Tim Hinton, Adrienne Hoard, Irwin Hoffman, Raymond Holbert, Geoffrey Holder, Robin Holder, Lonnie Holley, Alvin Hollingsworth, Eddie Holmes, Varnette Honeywood, Earl J. Hooks, Ray Horner, Paul Houzell, Helena Howard, Humbert Howard, John Howard, Mildred Howard, Raymond Howell, William Howell, Calvin Hubbard, Henry Hudson, Julien Hudson, James Huff, Manuel Hughes, Margo Humphrey, Raymond Hunt, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Elliott Hunter, Arnold Hurley, Bill Hutson, Zell Ingram, Sue Irons, A. B. Jackson, Gerald Jackson, Harlan Jackson, Hiram Jackson, May Jackson, Oliver Jackson, Robert Jackson, Suzanne Jackson, Walter Jackson, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Bob James, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jasmin Joseph [as Joseph Jasmin], Archie Jefferson, Rosalind Jeffries, Noah Jemison, Barbara Fudge Jenkins, Florian Jenkins, Chester Jennings, Venola Jennings, Wilmer Jennings, Georgia Jessup, Johana, Daniel Johnson, Edith Johnson, Harvey Johnson, Herbert Johnson, Jeanne Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Marie Johnson-Calloway, Milton Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Ben Jones, Calvin Jones, Dorcas Jones, Frank A. Jones, Frederic Jones, Henry B. Jones, Johnny Jones, Lawrence Arthur Jones, Leon Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Nathan Jones, Tonnie Jones, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Jack Jordan, Cliff Joseph, Ronald Joseph, Lemuel Joyner, Edward Judie, Michael Kabu, Arthur Kaufman, Charles Keck, Paul Keene, John Kendrick, Harriet Kennedy, Leon Kennedy, Joseph Kersey; Virginia Kiah, Henri King, James King, Gwendolyn Knight, Robert Knight, Lawrence Kolawole, Brenda Lacy, (Laura) Jean Lacy, Roy LaGrone, Artis Lane, Doyle Lane, Raymond Lark, Carolyn Lawrence, Jacob Lawrence, James Lawrence, Clarence Lawson, Louis LeBlanc, James Lee, Hughie Lee-Smith, Lizetta LeFalle-Collins, Leon Leonard, Bruce LeVert, Edmonia Lewis, Edwin E. Lewis, Flora Lewis, James E. Lewis, Norman Lewis, Roy Lewis, Samella Lewis, Elba Lightfoot, Charles Lilly [as Lily], Arturo Lindsay, Henry Linton, Jules Lion, James Little, Marcia Lloyd, Tom Lloyd, Jon Lockard, Donald Locke, Lionel Lofton, Juan Logan, Bert Long, Willie Longshore, Edward Loper, Francisco Lord, Jesse Lott, Edward Love, Nina Lovelace, Whitfield Lovell, Alvin Loving, Ramon Loy, William Luckett, John Lutz, Don McAllister, Theadius McCall, Dindga McCannon, Edward McCluney, Jesse McCowan, Sam McCrary, Geraldine McCullough, Lawrence McGaugh, Charles McGee, Donald McIlvaine, Karl McIntosh, Joseph Mack, Edward McKay, Thomas McKinney, Alexander McMath, Robert McMillon, William McNeil, Lloyd McNeill, Clarence Major, William Majors, David Mann, Ulysses Marshall, Phillip Lindsay Mason, Lester Mathews, Sharon Matthews, William (Bill) Maxwell, Gordon Mayes, Marietta Mayes, Richard Mayhew, Valerie Maynard, Victoria Meek, Leon Meeks, Yvonne Meo, Helga Meyer, Gaston Micheaux, Charles Mickens, Samuel Middleton, Onnie Millar, Aaron Miller, Algernon Miller, Don Miller, Earl Miller, Eva Hamlin Miller, Guy Miller, Julia Miller, Charles Milles, Armsted Mills, Edward Mills, Lev Mills, Priscilla Mills (P'lla), Carol Mitchell, Corinne Mitchell, Tyrone Mitchell, Arthur Monroe, Elizabeth Montgomery, Ronald Moody, Ted Moody, Frank Moore, Ron Moore, Sabra Moore, Theophilus Moore, William Moore, Leedell Moorehead, Scipio Moorhead, Clarence Morgan, Norma Morgan, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Patricia Morris, Keith Morrison, Lee Jack Morton, Jimmie Mosely, David Mosley, Lottie Moss, Archibald Motley, Hugh Mulzac, Betty Murchison, J. B. Murry, Teixera Nash, Inez Nathaniel, Frank Neal, George Neal, Jerome Neal, Robert Neal, Otto Neals, Robert Newsome, James Newton, Rochelle Nicholas, John Nichols, Isaac Nommo, Oliver Nowlin, Trudell Obey, Constance Okwumabua, Osira Olatunde, Kermit Oliver, Yaounde Olu, Ademola Olugebefola, Mary O'Neal, Haywood Oubré, Simon Outlaw, John Outterbridge, Joseph Overstreet, Carl Owens, Winnie Owens-Hart, Lorenzo Pace, William Pajaud, Denise Palm, James Pappas, Christopher Parks, James Parks, Louise Parks, Vera Parks, Oliver Parson, James Pate, Edgar Patience, John Payne, Leslie Payne, Sandra Peck, Alberto Pena, Angela Perkins, Marion Perkins, Michael Perry, Bertrand Phillips, Charles James Phillips, Harper Phillips, Ted Phillips, Delilah Pierce, Elijah Pierce, Harold Pierce, Anderson Pigatt, Stanley Pinckney, Howardena Pindell, Elliott Pinkney, Jerry Pinkney, Robert Pious, Adrian Piper, Horace Pippin, Betty Pitts, Stephanie Pogue, Naomi Polk, Charles Porter, James Porter, Georgette Powell, Judson Powell, Richard Powell, Daniel Pressley, Leslie Price, Ramon Price, Nelson Primus, Arnold Prince, E. (Evelyn?) Proctor, Nancy Prophet, Ronnie Prosser, William Pryor, Noah Purifoy, Florence Purviance, Martin Puryear, Mavis Pusey, Teodoro Ramos Blanco y Penita, Helen Ramsaran, Joseph Randolph; Thomas Range, Frank Rawlings, Jennifer Ray, Maxine Raysor, Patrick Reason, Roscoe Reddix, Junius Redwood, James Reed, Jerry Reed, Donald Reid, O. Richard Reid, Robert Reid, Leon Renfro, John Rhoden, Ben Richardson, Earle Richardson, Enid Richardson, Gary Rickson, John Riddle, Gregory Ridley, Faith Ringgold, Haywood Rivers, Arthur Roach, Malkia Roberts, Royal Robertson, Aminah Robinson, Charles Robinson, John N. Robinson, Peter L. Robinson, Brenda Rogers, Charles Rogers, Herbert Rogers, Juanita Rogers, Sultan Rogers, Bernard Rollins, Henry Rollins, Arthur Rose, Charles Ross, James Ross, Nellie Mae Rowe, Sandra Rowe, Nancy Rowland, Winfred Russsell, Mahler Ryder, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Charles Sallee, JoeSam., Marion Sampler, Bert Samples, Juan Sanchez, Eve Sandler, Walter Sanford, Floyd Sapp, Raymond Saunders, Augusta Savage, Ann Sawyer, Sydney Schenck, Vivian Schuyler Key, John Scott (Johnny) , John Tarrell Scott, Joyce Scott, William Scott, Charles Searles, Charles Sebree, Bernard Sepyo, Bennie Settles, Franklin Shands, Frank Sharpe, Christopher Shelton, Milton Sherrill, Thomas Sills, Gloria Simmons, Carroll Simms, Jewell Simon, Walter Simon, Coreen Simpson, Ken Simpson, Merton Simpson, William Simpson, Michael Singletary (as Singletry), Nathaniel Sirles, Margaret Slade (Kelley), Van Slater, Louis Sloan, Albert A. Smith, Alfred J. Smith, Alvin Smith, Arenzo Smith, Dolphus Smith, Floyd Smith, Frank Smith, George Smith, Howard Smith, John Henry Smith, Marvin Smith, Mary T. Smith, Sue Jane Smith, Vincent Smith, William Smith, Zenobia Smith, Rufus Snoddy, Sylvia Snowden, Carroll Sockwell, Ben Solowey, Edgar Sorrells, Georgia Speller, Henry Speller, Shirley Stark, David Stephens, Lewis Stephens, Walter Stephens, Erik Stephenson, Nelson Stevens, Mary Stewart, Renée Stout, Edith Strange, Thelma Streat, Richard Stroud, Dennis Stroy, Charles Suggs, Sharon Sulton, Johnnie Swearingen, Earle Sweeting, Roderick Sykes, Clarence Talley, Ann Tanksley, Henry O. Tanner, James Tanner, Ralph Tate, Carlton Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Janet Taylor Pickett, Lawrence Taylor, William (Bill) Taylor, Herbert Temple, Emerson Terry, Evelyn Terry, Freida Tesfagiorgis, Alma Thomas, Charles Thomas, James "Son Ford" Thomas, Larry Erskine Thomas, Matthew Thomas, Roy Thomas, William Thomas (a.k.a. Juba Solo), Conrad Thompson, Lovett Thompson, Mildred Thompson, Phyllis Thompson, Bob Thompson, Russ Thompson, Dox Thrash, Mose Tolliver, William Tolliver, Lloyd Toone, John Torres, Elaine Towns, Bill Traylor, Charles Tucker, Clive Tucker, Yvonne Edwards Tucker, Charlene Tull, Donald Turner, Leo Twiggs, Alfred Tyler, Anna Tyler, Barbara Tyson-Mosley, Bernard Upshur, Jon Urquhart, Florestee Vance, Ernest Varner, Royce Vaughn, George Victory, Harry Vital, Ruth Waddy, Annie Walker, Charles Walker, Clinton Walker, Earl Walker, Lawrence Walker, Raymond Walker [a.k.a. Bo Walker], William Walker, Bobby Walls, Daniel Warburg, Eugene Warburg, Denise Ward-Brown, Evelyn Ware, Laura Waring, Masood Ali Warren, Horace Washington, James Washington, Mary Washington, Timothy Washington, Richard Waters, James Watkins, Curtis Watson, Howard Watson, Willard Watson, Richard Waytt, Claude Weaver, Stephanie Weaver, Clifton Webb, Derek Webster, Edward Webster, Albert Wells, James Wells, Roland Welton, Barbara Wesson, Pheoris West, Lamonte Westmoreland, Charles White, Cynthia White, Franklin White, George White, J. Philip White, Jack White (sculptor), Jack White (painter), John Whitmore, Jack Whitten, Garrett Whyte, Benjamin Wigfall, Bertie Wiggs, Deborah Wilkins, Timothy Wilkins, Billy Dee Williams, Chester Williams, Douglas Williams, Frank Williams, George Williams, Gerald Williams, Jerome Williams, Jose Williams, Laura Williams, Matthew Williams, Michael K. Williams, Pat Ward Williams, Randy Williams, Roy Lee Williams, Todd Williams, Walter Williams, William T. Williams, Yvonne Williams, Philemona Williamson, Stan Williamson, Luster Willis, A. B. Wilson, Edward Wilson, Ellis Wilson, Fred Wilson, George Wilson, Henry Wilson, John Wilson, Stanley C. Wilson, Linda Windle, Eugene Winslow, Vernon Winslow, Cedric Winters, Viola Wood, Hale Woodruff, Roosevelt Woods, Shirley Woodson, Beulah Woodard, Bernard Wright, Dmitri Wright, Estella Viola Wright, George Wright, Richard Wyatt, Frank Wyley, Richard Yarde, James Yeargans, Joseph Yoakum, Bernard Young, Charles Young, Clarence Young, Kenneth Young, Milton Young.

THOMPSON, ROBERT FARRIS.
Aesthetic of the Cool: Afro-Atlantic Art and Music.
Periscope, 2009.
240 pp., illus. This book presents a selection of Thompson's essays on Afro- Atlantic art and music written from 1963-2006, edited for this publication, covering topics ranging from James Hampton's glittering Throne of the Third Heaven, a new piece on David Hammons, bus painting in Haiti, Jean-Michel Basquiat's love of jazz, hip-hop, Cuban Kongo altars and the art of José Bedia, Betye Saar and vodun; Renee Stout, American yard art and bottle trees, and Umbanda altars, among other topics. 8vo, cloth, d.j.

WASHINGTON (DC). Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980.
January 15-March 28, 1982.
186 pp. exhib. cat. of 391 works, over 120 illus., 50 in color, photos of artists, bibliog. Texts by Jane Livingston, Regenia A. Perry, John Beardsley. Only 3 women artists included: Nellie Mae Rowe, Inez Nathaniel-Walker, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Jesse Aaron, Steve Ashby, David Butler, William Dawson, Ulysses Davis, Sam Doyle, William Edmondson, James Hampton, Leslie J. Payne, Elijah Pierce, James Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, George White, George Williams, Luster Willis, Joseph E. Yoakum. [Reviews: Paul Richards, Washington Post, January 15, 1982; John Russell, "A Remarkable Exhibition of Black Folk Art in America," NYT (February 14, 1982):D-33; Art News 81, no. 5 (May 1982):138-42; Judith Wilson, "Black Folk Art: A Vision Endures," Museum News 3, no. 1 (1982):28-41.] 4to, stiff wraps.

WASHINGTON (DC). National Museum of American Art.
Descriptive Catalogue of Painting and Sculpture in the National Museum of American Art.
Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983.
Of historical interest. As of October 31, 1982, the holdings included (multiple works indicated in paretheses): Edward Bannister, Ed Bereal, Claude Clark, Sr., Eldzier Cortor, Allan Rohan Crite (2), Emilio Cruz (3), Joseph Delaney, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Sam Gilliam (7), James Hampton, Palmer Hayden, Felrath Hines, Richard Hunt, Malvin Gray Johnson (2), Sargent Claude Johnson, William H. Johnson (177) Jacob Lawrence, Charles Searles, Henry O. Tanner, Alma Woodsey Thomas, (26), Bob Thompson (5), Laura Wheeler Waring (2), and Ellis Wilson. [For a fuller picture of the national holdings of African American art at this time see also National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Permanent Collection Illustrated Checklist.]

WASHINGTON (DC). National Museum of American Art.
Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art.
1992.
205 pp., over 100 illus., 90 in excellent color, bibliog., list of works, checklist of 105 artists represented in National Museum of American Art. Curated and text by Regenia A. Perry. 32 artists discussed: Edward Mitchell Bannister, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Frederick J. Brown, Elizabeth Catlett, Allan Rohan Crite, Beauford Delaney, Robert Scott Duncanson, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Sam Gilliam, James Hampton, Palmer Hayden, Richard Hunt, Joshua Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Frank Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Edmonia Lewis, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Keith Morrison, Marilyn Nance, James A. Porter, Augusta Savage, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Bill Traylor, Hale Woodruff, and Joseph Yoakum. Other artists mentioned as part of the collection, but not featured: Leroy Almon, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Steve Ashby, Ed Bereal, Wendell T. Brooks, Samuel Joseph Brown, Vivian E. Browne, Richard Burnside, Claude Clark, Houston Conwill, Eldzier Cortor, Emilio Cruz, William Dawson, Hilliard Dean, Roy DeCarava, Joseph Delaney, Richard Dempsey, Arthur "Pete" Dilbert, John Edward Dowell, Jr., Melvin Edwards, Frederick Eversley, Josephus Farmer, Walter Flax, Roland L. Freeman, Herbert Gentry, William Hawkins, Felrath Hines, Lonnie Holley, Margo Humphrey, Mr. Imagination, Keith Jenkins, Malvin Gray Johnson, Larry Francis Lebby, Norman Lewis, Ed Loper, Richard Mayhew, Eric Calvin McDonald, Lloyd McNeill, Robert McNeill, Inez Nathaniel-Walker, Joseph Norman, Leslie Payne, Elijah Pierce, Howardena Pindell, Michael Platt, Earle Richardson, John N. Robinson, Nellie Mae Rowe, Charles Sallee Charles Searles, Charles Sebree, Frank Smith, Edgar Sorrells-Adewale, Henry Speller, Raymond Steth, Lou Stovall, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Mildred Thompson, Dox Thrash, Mose Tolliver, Laura Wheeler Waring, James W. Washington, Jr., Edward B. Webster, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Franklin A. White, George W. White, Jr., Ellis Wilson, Richard Yarde, Kenneth Young. [Traveled to: Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA.] Small 4to, cloth, dust jacket. First ed.

WERTKIN, GERALD C., ed.
Encyclopedia of American Folk Art.
New York: Routledge, 2003.
704 pp., eight 16-page full-color inserts, 100 b&w photos. Individual entries on over 500 artists (including only 49 African American artists), bibliogs. written by folk art experts. The entry on African American Folk Art states that approximately 10% of American vernacular artists are African American, noting however that their presence in recent exhibitions of American folk art is closer to 30%. Indeed, dozens of other African American artists are mentioned elsewhere throughout the entries. Entries on Santeria arts, Vodou art are largely theoretical and iconographic. Artists include: Jesse Aaron, Leroy Almon, Zebedee Armstrong, Steve Ashby, Mozell Benson, William H. Brown, Hawkins Bolden, Richard Burnside, David Butler, Archie Byron, Dave [the Potter], Ulysses Davis, William Dawson, Arthur Dial, Richard Dial, Thornton Dial, Sr., Thornton Dial, Jr., Sam Doyle, William Edmondson, Minnie Evans, Rev. Josephus Farmer, Sybil Gibson, William O. Golding, Dilmus Hall, James Hampton, Bessie Harvey, William Hawkins, Clementine Hunter, Anderson Johnson, Joshua Johnson (as Johnston), Joe Louis Light, Frank Jones, Ronald Lockett, Charlie Lucas, Sister Gertrude Morgan, J. B. Murry, Leroy Person, Elijah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Harriet Powers, Royal Robertson, Juanita Rogers, Nellie Mae Rowe, Ellis Ruley, Lorenzo Scott, Herbert Singleton, Mary T. Smith, Simon Sparrow, Henry Speller, Queena Stovall, Jimmie Lee Sudduth, Rev. Johnnie Swearingen, James (Son Ford) Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Bill Traylor, Inez Nathaniel-Walker, Gregory Warmack (Mr. Imagination), Yvonne Wells. [White artist Queena Stovall is listed in the index as African American.] 4to (11.3 x 8.4 in.), hardbound. First ed.