Bibliography and Exhibitions

MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

GENERAL BOOKS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

COCKCROFT, EVA, JAMES COCKCROFT and JOHN PITMAN WEBER.
Toward a People's Art: The Contemporary Mural Movement.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1998.
xxviii, 292 pp., 114 b&w illus., 23 color plates, bibliog., index. Foreword to 1977 edition by Jean Charlot; foreword to 1998 edition by Lucy R. Lippard; intro. Ben Keppel; new author's foreword; afterword Timothy W. Drescher. Excellent survey of the contemporary mural movement in the early '70s written by two artists and a sociologist. An important record of the history of community involved art in America. Much of the work discussed is by African American, Latino and Chicano artists. African American artists include: John Pitman Weber, William Walker, Mitchell Caton, Justine DeVan, Eugene Eda, Doug Williams, Vanita Green, Turtel Onli, Robert Sengstacke, Adele Seronde, Dana Chandler, Gary Rickson, Al Smith, Chuck Milles, James Brown, Roy Cato, Jr., Sharon Dunn, Jim Higgins, Faith Ringgold, Nelson Stevens, Dewey Crumpler, Janet Henry, Keithen Carter, John Robinson, William T. Williams, Clarence Wood, Donald McIlvaine, Mirna Weaver, Eliot Hunter, Jeff Donaldson, Edward Christmas, Carolyn Lawrence, Roy Lewis, Wadsworth Jarrell, Wyatt T. Walker, Will Hancock, Florence Hawkins, Barbara Jones, Darryl Colror, Billy Abernathy, Jr., Norman Perris. Brett Cook-Dizney, Calvin Jones, Clement Roach, Clarence Talley, Sylvia Abernathy, Carleton Baxter, Marie Burton, Elaine Jarrell, Noni Olabisi. 8vo, wraps. Reprint of 1977 ed. with additional foreword.

PHILADELPHIA (PA). Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum.
The People's Art: Black Murals, 1967-1978.
N.d. (1986).
Unpag. (39 pp.) exhib. cat., 15 illus. in color and sepia, bibliog., list of works (mostly in Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston). Texts by Reginald Butler, Jeff Donaldson and Geneva Smitherman Donaldson, Ronald G. Walters. Information on murals made by: William Walker, Mitchell Caton, Sylvia Abernathy, Mirna Weaver, Eliot Hunter, Jeff Donaldson, Edward Christmas, Carolyn Lawrence, Roy Lewis, Norman Parish, Wadsworth Jarrell, Wyatt T. Walker, Will Hancock, Florence Hawkins, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Darryl Colror, Willy Abernathy, Jr., Robert Sengstacke, Curly Elison (a.k.a. Maurice Ellison?), Darrell Cowherd, Eugene Eda, John Weber, Calvin Jones, Justine DeVan, Dewey Crumpler, Sharon Dunn, Richard Watson, Nelson Stevens, Babatunde, Walter Edmonds, Elliott Knight, Dana Chandler. Oblong 4to (23 x 31 cm.), stapled wraps.