Bibliography and Exhibitions
MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Atlanta (GA). Modern Primitive Gallery.
LOUIS DELSARTE.
2001.
Solo exhibition.
Brooklyn (NY). Dorsey Gallery.
LOUIS DELSARTE: Recent Works.
1993.
Solo exhibition.
Harris, Michael D.
The Spiritual and Mystical World of LOUIS DELSARTE.
N.d. (c.1998).
Unpag. (10 pp.) exhib. cat., 12 color plates of paintings in acrylic and pastel, mixed media, photo of artist, biog., exhibs., colls., bibliog. Text by Michael D. Harris. 4to, stapled pictorial wraps. First ed.
LOGAN, FERN, MARGARET R. VENDRYES and DEBORAH WILLIS.
The Artist Portrait Series: Images of Contemporary African American Artists.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001.
xviii, 122 pp., 61 b&w illus., index. Foreword by Margaret Rose Vendryes; intro. by Deborah Willis. Portrait images by photographer Fern Logan. Subjects include: Candida Alvarez, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Ellsworth Ausby, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey Camille Billops, Bob Blackburn, Vivian Browne, Selma Burke, Nanette Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Ed Clark, Eldzier Cortor, Adger Cowans, Ernest Crichlow, Roy DeCarava, Louis Delsarte, Joseph Delaney, Melvin Edwards, Herbert Gentry, Rosa Guy, Manuel Hughes, Richard Hunt, Bill Hutson, Lois Mailou Jones, Gwendolyn Knight (as Gwendolyn Lawrence), Jacob Lawrence, Samella Lewis, James Little, Al Loving, Fern Logan, Andrew Lyght, Richard Mayhew, Arthur Mitchell, Tyrone Mitchell, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Gordon Parks, Howardena Pindell, John Pinderhughes, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Coreen Simpson, Merton Simpson, Charles Smalls, Vincent Smith, Frank Stewart, Raymond Bo Walker, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams, Mel Wright, and others. 4to (27 cm.; 10 x 8 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
Los Angeles (CA). California African American Museum.
LOUIS DELSARTE: Gallery of Greats.
1991.
Solo exhibition.
Miami (FL). Frances Wolfson Art Center, Miami-Dade Community College.
The Art of LOUIS DELSARTE.
February 12 - March 13, 1987.
Solo exhibition. [Smithsonian Archives of American Art].
New Orleans (LA). Amistad Research Center.
LOUIS DELSARTE.
1999.
Solo exhibition.
New Orleans (LA). Stella Jones Gallery.
LOUIS DELSARTE: Reflections.
1998.
Solo exhibition.
New York (NY). Bodley Gallery.
LOUIS DELSARTE.
N.d. (ca. 1980).
(6 pp.) folded brochure, illustrated with four 1979 drawings. Single folded sheet (22 cm.), printed on both sides.
New York (NY). Gallery 62, National Urban League.
LOUIS DELSARTE: No Place Like Home.
1991.
Solo exhibition.
New York (NY). Gallery 62, National Urban League.
New Visions: Paintings and Drawings by LOUIS DELSARTE.
February 7-March 11, 1983.
Exhib. cat., illus. Artist's statement, biog. by Thurlow Tibbs, remarks by David Mann and Michelle Gradison Lee. 8vo, wraps.
New York (NY). NoHo Gallery.
LOUIS DELSARTE: Between Heaven and Earth.
1990.
Solo exhibition.
Washington (DC). Curtis Lewis Gallery.
LOUIS DELSARTE: Recent Works.
1998.
Solo exhibition.
Washington (DC). Parish Gallery.
LOUIS DELSARTE.
December 5, 2003-January 13, 2004.
Solo exhibition.
Wichita (KS). African American Museum.
LOUIS DELSARTE.
2005.
Solo exhibition.
GENERAL BOOKS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Albuquerque. Artists of America, Inc.
Artists of Georgia Vol. 3.
N.d. (circa 1990).
112 pp., 97 listings with over 350 b&w and color illus., as well as many photos of artists and artists' statements. (Many lesser-known African American artists included): Carl Christian (3), Raymond B. Cody (6 ill.), Louis J. Delsarte (7 ill.), Selma Joyce Glass (4 ill.), Edwina Granger (7 ill.), Annie Green (2 ill.), Carlton Hardy (7 ill.), Ulrick Jean-Pierre (4 ill.), Lee Ransaw (2 ill.), Charlotte Riley-Webb (8 ill.), Deborah Shedrick (4 ill.), Larry Walker (2 ill.), Margaret G. Warfield (3 ill.), Michelle Wood (2 ill.). 4to, wraps. First ed.
ATLANTA (GA). Atlanta Life Insurance Co.
The Ninth Annual Atlanta Life National Art Competition and Exhibition.
1989.
Exhib. cat. Included: Willie Birch, Louis Delsarte (purchase award), Albert Lavergne, Chuck Douglas, Ken Falana (Mixed Media purchase award; 2nd Place Painting purchase award; 2nd Place Printmaking purchase award) (3), MacArthur Goodwin, Michael D. Harris, Calvin Hooks, Charnelle Holloway, Stephanie Jackson, Wadsworth Jarrell, Kazi Lawrence, James Pate, Robert (Bobby) Scroggins, Vincent Smith, Richard Watson, Chester Williams, Gloria Williams.
ATLANTA (GA). Atlanta Life Insurance Co.
The Tenth Annual Atlanta Life National Art Competition and Exhibition.
February-March, 1990.
Group exhibition. Jurors: Camille Billops, Curtis Patterson, Elizabeth Catlett (appointed but too ill to serve), Jesse Hill, Jr. Artists exhibited include: Amalia Amaki, William Anderson (purchase award), Kwabena Ampofo-Anti, Joy Ballard-Peters (purchase award), Garry Biggs, Jacqueline Bontemps, Willie Buchanan (purchase award), Harriet Buckley, Michael Bynum, Anthony Cammack, Carol Carter, April Chartrand, Kevin Cole, William Cooper, Andy Cunningham, Jr., Walt Davis, Willis [Bing] Davis, Louis Delsarte, Robert Dilworth, Chuck Douglas, William Duffy (purchase award), Ed Dwight, Herbert Edwards, Kenneth Falana (printmaking purchase award), Robert Foster, Devery Freeman (purchase award), Eddie Granderson, Karl Hall, Reynaldo Hernandez, Vandorn Hinnant (purchase award), Raymond Holbert, Robin Holder (purchase award), Charnelle Holloway, Charles Holmes (purchase award), Stefanie Jackson, Walter James, Rosalyn Johnson, Ted Jones, Carolyn Martin, Robert Martin, Toby Martin (purchase award), Valerie Maynard (purchase award), Oscar McNary, Jerome Meadows, Ben Mercer, Eleanor Merritt, Gary L. Moore, Velma Morris (purchase award), Freddy Norman, Joseph Norman (purchase award), James Padgett, T. Maurice Pennington, Lonnie Powell, Valerie Respress, John Riddle, Jr., Hilda Robinson, Laverne Ross, Thom Shaw, Mariah Spann, Robert Spencer, Roy Vinson Thomas, Darlene Tyree (purchase award), Lamonte Westmoreland (purchase award), Cynthia White, Lavon Van Williams, Jr., Gilberto Wilson, Winston Wingo, Aundreta Wright, Theresa Young. Listings for Current Art Collection by year of acquisition include: 1980--Jerome B. Meadows, Elizabeth Catlett, William Duffy, James B. Pasley, George Balams, Phillip Hampton, Tina Dunkley, Michael Cummings, Thom Shaw, Robert Martin, Mark Herring; 1980-81, Maurice Pennington, Lev Mills, Freddie Styles, John Riddle; 1981--Arturo Lindsay, Geraldine McCullough, Kathy E. Harper, Lethia Robertson, Tina Dunkley, Bisa Washington, Terry Hunter (2), Leroy Porter, James B. Pasley, Rudolph Robinson, Roger Murphy, Ben Jones, John Riddle; 1981-82 Paul Goodnight, Robert Dilworth, Phoebe Beasley, Lev Mills, Ted Jones (2), Bing Davis, Ayokunle Odeleye; 1982--Hale Woodruff, Thom Shaw, James E. Pate, Mark E. Morse, R. Martin, Michael Harris, John T. Scott, Freddie Styles, Lamerol Gatewood, Robert Peppers, Evelyn Terry, Tarrance Corbin, Richard Jordan, Carlton Thornton, Geraldine McCullough; 1984--Terry Adkins, Clemon Smith (2), Ellsworth Ausby, James E. Duprée, Charles Joyner, Carol A. Carter, Joyce Wellman, William Moore, George Balams, Willie Birch, Freddie Styles, Sana Musasama, Stanley Wilson, Scott; 1985: April M Chartrand, Carol Carter, Arthur Carraway, Cynthia Hawkins, Michael D. Harris, Shaw, Leroy Johnson, Tyrone Geter, Adger Cowans, Robert Martin, Lev Mills, Walter Jackson, Andrew Cunningham, Jr., Sidney V. Barkley, Frank Toby Martin, Jewel Simon (2) [plus listed as 1981 acquisition]; 1986: Harvey L. Johnson, Gall Shaw Clemons, Allen B. Poindexter, Michael Ellison, Kenneth Falana, Kevin Hamilton, Bertrand D. Phillips, Bob Helton, John H. Brown, Susan Thompson, Tina Dunkley, Louis J. Delsarte, Robert Martin, Lamonte Westmoreland, Kevin E. Cole, Debra D. Pressley, Ulysses Marshall, Ed Hamilton, Frank Toby Martin, Sana Musasama; 1987--Carlos F. Peterson (sc), Michael Ellison, Robert Spencer, Ted Jones, Lawrence Huff, William Anderson, Otis G. Sanders, James Green (fiber artist), Pat Ward Williams, James Maceo Rodgers, Robert Martin, Roy Vinson Thomas, Dewey Crumpler, Martin Payton, Curtis Tucker; 1988--Hilda C. Robinson, James E. Pate, Louis Delsarte, Falana, Stefanie Jackson, Holder, Wadsworth Jarrell, R. V. Thomas, Floyd E. Newsum, Angela Franklin, James E. Duprée, Robin M. Chandler, Jesse Guinyard, Jr., Dewey E. Crumpler, Charnelle Holloway; 1989-- Louis Delsarte, Chuck Douglas, Ken Falana (3) MacArthur Goodwin, Calvin Hooks, Charnelle Holloway, Stephanie Jackson, Wadsworth Jarrell, Kazi Lawrence, James Pate, Robert (Bobby) Scroggins, Vincent Smith, Richard Watson, Gloria Williams. 8vo, wraps.
ATLANTA (GA). City Gallery East.
Homecoming.
June 3-July17, 2005.
An exhibition by an ensemble of mid-career African American artists in Atlanta, who share a long friendship, but have never shown their work together. Some of the featured artists include: Larry Walker, Lev Mills, Kojo Griffin, Freddie Styles, Peggy Blood, Malaika Favorite, Toby Martin, K. Joy Peters, Jenelsie Holloway, Charnelle Holloway, James Adair, Louis Delsarte, Charlotte Riley-Webb, Lee Ransaw, Tony Loadholt, Henry Porter, Michael Morgan, Velma Ludaway, James Hiram Malone, Amalia Amaki, Flora Hammond, Carl Christian, and others.
ATLANTA (GA). Hammonds House Museum.
Atlanta Artists (Selected Works from the Permanent Collection) + New Works + New Acquisitions.
N.d. (c.1993).
(4 pp. including cover). Biographic exhibition checklist of thirty works with information on each of the 16 artists. Artists include: Zach Anderson, Arthur Carraway, Louis J. Delsarte, Tina Dunkley, VanDorn Hinnant, Jenelsie Holloway, Wadsworth Jarrell, Arturo Lindsay, Oliver Jackson, Lev Mills, James Phillips, John Riddle, Freddie Styles, Mildred Thompson, Larry Walker, Charles White. Single folding sheet (11 x 17 in.).
ATLANTA (GA). Mason Murer Fine Art.
The Power of Love.
July 15-August 15, 2004.
Group exhibition. Artists include: Louis Delsarte, Paul Goodnight, Charly Palmer; quilts by Jean Mitchell, Darlyne Dandridge, and Phyllis Stevens.
ATLANTA (GA). Space.
Nina Simone Experience.
April 16-25, 2010.
Group exhibition. Curated by E. Joyce Moore.
BROOKVILLE (NY). Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University.
BOB BLACKBURN's Printmaking Workshop: Artists of Color.
1992.
62, (2) pp., 74 illus. (8 color plates), biographies of over fifty artists. Intro. by Kay Walkingstick; text by Noah Jemisin. One of the early references to Blackburn's profound influence on the printmaking world, and still not focusing on his own prints. A tribute to the Printmaking Workshop with illus. of more than 70 artists who worked with Blackburn (approximately two thirds of those included are Black artists.) Includes: Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, William Artis, Ellsworth Ausby, Henry Bannarn, Romare Bearden, Hameed Benjamin, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Willie Birch, Betty Blayton, Marion Brown, Vivian Browne, Selma Burke, Nanette Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Ed Clark, Adger Cowans, Ernest Crichlow, Nadine DeLawrence, Louis Delsarte, Aaron Douglas, Melvin Edwards, Herbert Gentry, (John) Solace Glenn, Michele Godwin, Rex Goreleigh, Manuel Hughes, Zell Ingram, Noah Jemison, Ronald Joseph, Mohammad Omer Khalil, Jacob Lawrence, Spencer Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Norma Morgan, Sara Murrell, Otto Neals, Nefertiti, Lee Pate, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Augusta Savage, AJ Smith, Jr., Vincent Smith, Maxwell Taylor, Luther Vann, Charles White, Michael Kelly Williams, William T. Williams. [One of the most widely circulated exhibitions of African American art. Traveled to: Bronx River Art Center and Gallery, Bronx, NY; Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI, October 3-November 21, 1993; ; Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL, July 10-August 28, 1994; Telfair Academy of Art and Sciences, Savannah, GA, December 12, 1994-January 30, 1995; Fisk University, Nashville, TN, September 18, 1994-January 15, 1995; Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY, September 3-December 31, 1995; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University; Wichita, KS, April 16-June 4, 1995; The Roger Guffey Gallery; Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, February 5-March 26, 1995.] Small oblong 4to, wraps. First ed.
COLLEGE PARK (MD). University of Maryland Art Gallery.
Successions: Prints by African-American Artists from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection.
April 1-29, 2002.
48 pp. exhib. cat., 26 color & b&w illus., checklist of 62 works by 45 artists, glossary of terms. Intro. by David C. Driskell; statement by the collectors, text by Adrienne L. Childs. Includes: Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Camille Billops, Robert Blackburn, Moe Brooker, Calvin Burnett, Nora Mae Carmichael, Elizabeth Catlett, Kevin Cole, Robert Colescott, Allan Rohan Crite, Louis Delsarte, David Driskell, Allan Edmunds, Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, Varnette Honeywood, Margo Humphrey, Paul Keene, Wadsworth Jarrell, Lois Mailou Jones, Gwendolyn Knight, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Samella Lewis, Percy B. Martin, Tom Miller, Evangeline Montgomery, Keith Morrison, Joseph Norman, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Anita Philyaw, Stephanie Pogue, John T. Riddle, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Preston Sampson, Frank Smith, Vincent Smith, Lou Stovall, James L. Wells, William T. Williams, John Wilson. [Traveled to: Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL.] 4to (11 x 8.5 in.), pictorial wraps. First ed.
DECATUR (GA). Junor Gallery.
Journey II.
July 31-September 18, 2008.
Group exhibition. Artists included: Robert Kelly, Louis Delsarte, Charlotte Riley-Webb, Kai Watson, Carly Clements, Charles Scoggins, Chery Baird, Cleve Webber, Desmond McFarlane, Eskender Seyoum, Eugene Campbell, FauZie As'Ad, Gregory Johnson, Jerome Walker, Henri Linton, Jhosell Castro, Raymond Watson, John Glover, Karen Ku, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Karl "Jerry" Craig, Kevin Cole, LaMar Barber, Laurel Fry, Li Hardison, Liefje Smith. Linc Bennett, Nedra Bailey, Sarah Arnold, Yosef Berta, Jonas Allen, Chouaieb Saidi, Basil Watson, Errol Tomlinson.
EDMUNDS, ALLAN L. and LOUISE D. STONE.
Three Decades of American Printmaking: The Brandywine Workshop Collection.
Manchester: Hudson Hills, 2004.
240 pp., 126 color plates, 21 b&w illus., bibliog., index. Texts by Halima Taha, Lois H. Johnson and Patricia Smith, Keith A. Morrison, and Claude Elliott. Among the artists who have had prints made at Brandywine are: Candida Alvarez, Emma Amos, Akili Ron Anderson, Benny Andrews, Roland Ayers, Belkis Ayon, Romare Bearden, Ron Bechet, John T. Biggers, Camille Billops, Willie Birch, Terry Boddie, Berrisford Boothe, James Brantley, Moe Brooker, Marvin P. Brown, Samuel J. Brown, Weldon Butler, Selma Burke, Nanette Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Ed Clark, Kevin E. Cole, William Cordova, Adger Cowans, Alonzo Davis, Louis Delsarte, John E. Dowell, David Driskell, James Dupree, Walter Edmonds, Allen Edmunds, Melvin Edwards, Rodney Ewing, Agbo Folarin, Reginald Gammon, Sam Gilliam, Simon Gouverneur, Leamon Green, Eugene Grigsby, Maren Hassinger, Barkley L. Hendricks, Leon Hicks, Vandorn Hinnant, Margo Humphrey, Nene Humphrey, Curlee Raven Holton, Richard Hunt, Bill Hutson, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Wadsworth Jarrell, Paul F. Keene, Jr., Lois Mailou Jones, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Souleymane Keita, Gwendolyn Knight, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Samella Lewis, Arturo Lindsay, Alvin Loving, Deryl Mackie, Jimmy Mance, Percy Martin, Valerie Maynard, Donna Meeks, Charles Mills, Ibrahim Miranda, Quentin Morris, Keith Morrison, Evangeline Montgomery, Quentin Morris, Abdouleye Ndoye, Floyd Newsum, Magdalene Odundo, Ademola Olugebefola, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Laurie Ourlicht, Joe Overstreet, William Pajaud, Howardena Pindell, James Phillips, Michael Platt, Eric Pryor, Leo Robinson, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Juan Sanchez, John T. Scott, Charles Searles, AJ Smith, Frank Smith, George Smith, Vincent Smith, Sylvia Snowden, Edgar Sorrells-Adewale, David Stephens, Hubert Taylor, Evelyn Terry, Phyllis Thompson, Kaylynn Sullivan Twotrees, Larry Walker, John Wade, Richard Watson, James Lesesne Wells, Stanley Whitney, Carl Joe Williams, Michael Kelly Williams, Pat Ward Williams, Gilberto Wilson, Clarence Wood, Shirley Woodson, and Barbara Chase-Riboud. [Also issued in a limited numbered edition of 396 copies, including three offset lithographs by Sam Gilliam, each signed and numbered in pencil, bound in red cloth, in matching cloth covered slipcase.] 4to (12.4 x 9.2 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed.
ExhibitsUSA.
Southern Journeys: African American Artists of the South.
2010.
Group exhibition that examines the work of African American artists who have chronicled the history of Southern culture in their art through memory of place, rather than their current place of work. Seemingly an offshoot of the exhibition by the same title organized by the Alexandria Museum of Art and Stella Jones gallery. Artists include: Sarah Albritton, Leroy Allen, Benny Andrews, Radcliffe Bailey, John Barnes, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Ron Bechet, John Biggers, Willie Birch, Beverly Buchanan, Claire Foster Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Sr., Jeffrey Cook, Ernest Crichlow, Alonzo Davis, Louis Delsarte, James Denmark, David Driskell, Malaika Favorite, Reginald Gammon, Gharles Gilliam, Sr., Eugene Grigsby, Frank Hayden, Randall Henry, Lester Holt, Jr., Clementine Hunter, Wadsworth Jarrell, Lawrence Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Mapo Kinnard-Payton, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Samella Lewis, Ruth Mae McCrane, William Pajaud, Martin Payton, Joseph Pearson, Alvin Roy, John T. Scott, Morris Taft Thomas, Mose Tolliver, Charles White, Lorna Williams, Michele Wood.
FAIRFIELD (CT). Cultural Fine Art Gallery, GE Headquarters.
How We Got Over: Artistic Souls Look Back and Wonder.
January 14-February, 2007.
Group exhibition spread over 4 venues. Featuring works by Kenneth and Winona Addison, Elizabeth Catlett, Calvin Coleman, Diann Cook, Stanwyck Cromwell, Louis Delsarte, Jonathan Green, Cassandra Jennings Hall, Dave Huckabe, Cora Marshall, Myrna Morris, Otto Neals, Chris Osborne, Michael Parchment, Sonia Lynn Sadler, Fay Stevenson-Smith, Ann Tanksley, Jo-Ann Thompson, Ken Weston, et al.
FAYETTEVILLE (NC). Walton Arts Center.
Images of America, African American Voices: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Walker.
January 9-March 27, 2004.
125 pp., 83 color plates, 1 b&w illus., plus color and b&w text photos, checklist of 64 works in all media, endnotes, bibliog. Text by Michael D. Harris. A very substantial collection. Artists include: Ron Adams, Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Radcliffe Bailey, Romare Bearden, Phoebe Beasley, Frank Bowling, Calvin Burnett, Nanette Carter, William S. Carter, Ed Clark, Kevin Cole, Robert Colescott, Tarrance D. Corbin, Allan Rohan Crite, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Louis Delsarte, David Driskell, Edward J. Dwight, Michael Ellison, Herbert Gentry, Sam Gilliam, Luther Hampton, Margo Humphrey, Richard Hunt, Bill Hutson, Lois Mailou Jones, Gwendolyn Knight, Jacob Lawrence, Henri Linton, Juan Logan, Juan Logan, Whitfield Lovell, Alvin D. Loving, Clarence Morgan, Reginald McGhee, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, James Phillips, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Ray Saunders, John T. Scott, Charles Searles, Charles Sebree, A. J. Smith, Cedric Smith, Frank E. Smith, John H. Smith, Bill Taylor, Mildred J. Thompson, Dudley Vaccianna, James Vanderzee, Larry Walker, Joyce Wellman, William T. Williams. [Traveled to Tubman African American Museum, Macon, GA, July 23-September 26, 2004; Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, June 11-September 17, 2005.] Oblong 4to, pictorial wraps. First ed.
FORBES, DENNIS BURKE.
Collecting Limited Editions Prints; Contemporary African American Printmakers.
VA: Forbes, 2004.
148 pp., illus. throughout (over 70 color plates), bibliog., index. The text provides an introduction to contemporary African American printmakers, focusing on 35 artists with biogs. and color plates for each; definitions of types of printmaking. Includes: Bob Blackburn, Lou Stovall, Ron Adams, Akili Ron Anderson, John Biggers, Michael Billups, Nathaniel Bustion, Carole Byard, Elizabeth Catlett, Louis Delsarte, David C. Driskell, Sam Gilliam, Jarvis Grant, Jonathan Green, Leon Hicks, Kevin Holder, Joseph Holston, Lois Mailou Jones, Winston Kennedy, Gwendolyn Knight-Lawrence, Jacob Lawrence, Samella Lewis, Percy B. Martin, Valerie Maynard, Evangeline Juliet Montgomery, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Anita Philyaw, Michael Platt, Stephanie C. Pogue, George H. Smith-Shomari, Ann Tanksley, Ed Towles, Joyce Wellman, James Lesesne Wells. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed.
GAITHER, EDMUND BARRY.
Eleven Established Artists Dare Their Audience to Revisualize Art in the Spirit of the Lord.
1992.
In: American Visions 7 (December 1992-January 1993):(16)-20. Discusses a fine art calendar featuring the work of 11 black artists, a project initiated by Nelson Stevens. Included: Akili Ron Anderson, Michael Borders, Michael Coblyn, Louis Delsarte, Paul Goodnight, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jon Lockard, Valerie J. Maynard, James Phillips, Nelson Stevens, Pheoris West.
GREENSBORO (NC). African American Atelier Gallery, Greensboro Cultural Center.
Changing Perspectives in Contemporary American Art: Celebrating Creative Teaching: Area College & University Artist and Artisans.
August 25-October 5, 2007.
Group exhibition of faculty at NAAHBCU institutions. Included: Justin Abraham, Alma S. Adams, Marvette Pratt Aldrich, Jim Alexander, Lloyd Bennett, Rodger Birt, Peggy Blood, William Brooks, Ricky Calloway, LeAnder Canady, Robert Carter, Willis Bing Davis, Zelana Davis, Addie Dawson-Euba, Louis Delsarte, Phil Dotson, Amiri Farris, Vandorn Hinnant, Willie Hooker, James Huff, Terry K. Hunter, Ann ‘Sole Sister’ Johnson, Hassan Kirkland, Juan Logan, Tewodross Melchishua, Tracey L Moore, Barbara Nesin, Floyd Newkirk, Joseph Anthony Pearson, Lee A. Ransaw, Clarence Talley, Sr., Leo Twiggs, Cleve Webber, Dennis R. Winston, Annette Williams, James Williams.
HAJOSY, DOLORES.
Gallery 62: An Outlet . . . A Bridge.
1985.
In: Black American Literature Forum 19, No. 1 (Spring 1985):22-23. Mentions artists in 1978 inaugural exhibition at Gallery 62: Charles Alston, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, William Braxton, Selma Burke, Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, Jacob Lawrence, Archibald Motley, Augusta Savage, William E. Scott, Albert A. Smith, Henry O. Tanner, Charles White, Hale Woodruff. Mentions the many other artists subsequently shown in Gallery 62 exhibitions: Jules Allen, Emma Amos, Toyce Anderson, Aleta Bass, Carole Byard, Adger Cowans, Virginia Cox, Nicholas Davis, Avel DeKnight, Nadine DeLawrence-Maine, Louis Delsarte, James Denmark, Tom Feelings, Manuel Hughes, Bill Hutson, Oliver Johnson, Ben Jones, Richard Leonard, James Little, Fern Logan, Jacqueline Patten, John Pinderhughes, John Rhoden, Faith Ringgold, Arthur Robinson, Betye Saar, Sidney Schenck, Coreen Simpson, Beauford Smith, George Smith, John Spaulding, Charles Stewart, Frank Stewart, Sharon Sutton, Jon Thomas, Leon Waller, Joyce Wellman, George Wilson, Maryam Zafar.
LEWIS, SAMELLA.
African American Art & Artists.
Berkeley: University of California, 1990.
302 pp., 204 illus., many in color, substantial bibliog. A history of African American art from the seventeenth-century to the '90s. Revised and updated from Lewis's original publication Art: African American (1978). [See also entry on expanded edition, 2003]. Foreword by Floyd Coleman. Artists include: the slaves of Thomas Fleet, Boston,.Scipio Moorhead, Neptune Thurston, G.W.Hobbs (white artist), Joshua Johnston, Julien Hudson, Robert M. Douglass, Jr., Patrick Henry Reason, David Bustill Bowser, William Simpson, Robert S. Duncanson, Eugene Warburg, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Grafton Tyler Brown, Nelson A. Primus, Charles Ethan Porter, (Mary) Edmonia Lewis, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Meta Vaux Warrick (Fuller), William Edouard Scott, Laura Wheeler Waring, Aaron Douglas, Hale Woodruff, Palmer Hayden, Archibald Motley, Jr., Malvin Gray Johnson, Ellis Wilson, Sargent Claude Johnson, Augusta Savage, Richmond Barthé, William H. Johnson, James Lesesne Wells, Beauford Delaney, Selma Burke, Lois Mailou Jones, Alma Thomas, James A. Porter, William E. Artis, William Edmondson, Horace Pippin, Clementine Hunter, David Butler, Charles Alston, Norman Lewis, Romare Bearden, Hughie Lee-Smith, Eldzier Cortor, Jacob Lawrence, Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, John Wilson, John Biggers, Ademola Olugebefola, Herman Kofi Bailey, Raymond Saunders, Lucille Malkia Roberts, David Driskell, Floyd Coleman, Paul Keene, Arthur Carraway, Mikelle Fletcher, Varnette Honeywood, Phoebe Beasley, Benny Andrews, Reginald Gammon, Faith Ringgold, Cliff Joseph, David Bradford, Bertrand Phillips, Manuel Hughes, Phillip Lindsay Mason, Dana Chandler, Malaika Favorite, Bob Thompson, Emilio Cruz, Leslie Price, Irene Clark, Al Hollingsworth, William Pajaud, Richard Mayhew, Bernie Casey, Floyd Newsum, Frank Williams, Louis Delsarte, William Henderson, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Joe Overstreet, Adrienne W. Hoard, Sam Gilliam, Mahler Ryder, Oliver Jackson, Eugene Coles, Vincent Smith, Calvin Jones, Pheoris West, Noah Purifoy, Ed Bereal, Betye Saar, Ron Griffin, John Outterbridge, Marie Johnson, Ibibio Fundi, John Stevens, Juan Logan, John Riddle, Richard Hunt, Mel Edwards, Allie Anderson, Ed Love, Plla Mills, Doyle Foreman, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Artis Lane, John Scott, William Anderson, Martin Puryear, Thomas Miller, Fred Eversley, Larry Urbina, Ben Hazard, Sargent Johnson, Doyle Lane, Willis (Bing) Davis, Curtis Tucker, Yvonne Tucker, Bill Maxwell, Camille Billops, James Tatum, Douglas Phillips, Art Smith, Bob Jefferson, Evangeline Montgomery, Manuel Gomez, Joanna Lee, Allen Fannin, Leo Twiggs, James Tanner, Therman Statom, Marion Sampler, Arthur Monroe, James Lawrence, Marvin Harden, Raymond Lark, Murray DePillars, Donald Coles, Joseph Geran, Ron Adams, Kenneth Falana, Ruth Waddy, Van Slater, Joyce Wellman, William E. Smith, Leon Hicks, Marion Epting, Russell Gordon, Stephanie Pogue, Devoice Berry, Margo Humphrey, Howard Smith, Jeff Donaldson, Lev Mills, Carol Ward, David Hammons, Michael Kelly Williams, Laurie Ourlicht, Gary Bibbs, Houston Conwill, Mildred Howard, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Alison Saar, Lorenzo Pace. 4to (28 cm.), wraps. 2nd edition (Revised). Reprinted 1994.
LEWIS, SAMELLA.
Art: African American.
Los Angeles: Hancraft, 1990.
x (ii), 298 pp., 294 illus. (104 in color), bibliog. Excellent survey of African American art as of the mid-70s, with a discriminating selection of plates. Unfortunately very poor quality reproductions. [All 169 artists are cross-referenced, although not separately listed here.) 4to, wraps. Second revised ed. 1990
MONTGOMERY (AL). National Center for the Study of Civil Rights and African-American Culture, Alabama State University.
The NAACP (1909-2009): The Quest for Black Citizenship in the Americas.
February 8-May 11, 2009.
Group exhibition. Included: Art Bacon, William Brooks, Ricky Calloway, Warner Robbins, Robert Carter, William Colvin, Willis (Bing) Davis, Addie Dawson-Euba, Louis Delsarte, Phillip R. Dotson, Brenda Faison, John Feagin, James L. Griffin, (Stone Mountain, GA), Terry K. Hunter, Ann (Sole Sister) Johnson, Ronald B. Kennedy, Hasaan Kirkland, Tracey L. Moore, Joseph A. Pearson, Lee Ransaw, Clarence Talley Sr., Leo Twiggs, Cleve Webber, and Dennis Winston.
NEW ORLEANS (LA). New Orleans African American Museum of Art, Culture and History.
Jazz: The Visual Translation.
1999.
Group exhibition. Includes: Louis Delsarte, et al.
NEW ORLEANS (LA). Stella Jones Gallery.
Ebony soliloquy: a five year retrospective (1996-2001).
2001.
47 pp. exhib. cat., illus. Preface by Samella Lewis. Group exhibition. Included: Richard Barthé, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Herbert Gentry, Loïs Mailou Jones, Phoebe Beasley, Yvonne Edwards-Tucker, Artis Lane, Evangeline "EJ" Montgomery, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Ann Tanksley, Louis Delsarte, Malaika Favorite, Randall Henry, Dennis Paul Williams, Tayo Adenaike, El Anatsui, Antonio Carreño, LeRoy Clarke, Edouard Duval-Carrie, Wosene Kosrof, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark, Ernest Crichlow, Reginald Gammon, Richard Hunt, Samella Lewis, Richard Mayhew, William "Bill" Pajaud, Jr., Gordon Parks, Sr., Ron Adams, Benny Andrews, Allan Rohan Crite, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Francisco Mora, James Amos Porter, Vincent Smith. 4to (28 cm.), wraps.
NEW YORK (NY). Cinque Gallery.
Artists in the City: The Legacy of the Faculty Resources Network.
June 7-July 7, 1999.
Exhib. cat., illus., checklist of 17 works, interviews with artists. Curator: Adrienne Klein. Texts by Debra James and Adrienne Klein. Includes: Arthur Bacon, Louis Delsarte, Arturo Lindsay, Charles D. Rogers (along with Chilean artist Marcelo Novo.)
NEW YORK (NY). New York Urban League / Lever House.
35 under 35.
August 4-21, 1980.
22 (2) pp., 36 b&w illus. Intro. by Romare Bearden. Curated by Avel de Knight. A mix of painting, photography, sculpture, graphics, with a broad selection extending well beyond the New York area; numerous women artists. Includes 22 African American artists and also artists of Native American, Chicano and Hispanic descent. Includes among others: Jules T. Allen, Toyce Anderson, Dawoud Bey, Niles Cruz, Louis J. Delsarte, Stephanie Douglas, Barkley L. Hendricks, Jaqui Holmes, Claudia Jane Hutchinson, Harold Lambert, Leonard Mainor, Howard McCalebb, Algernon Miller, Charles Mingus III, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Marilyn Nance, Enock Placide, Richard J. Powell, Milton Sherrill, Leon Waller, E. Lee White, Randy Williams. 12mo (22 cm), tan stapled wraps. First ed.
NEW YORK (NY). Salmagundi Club.
The First Annual Auction of Afro-American Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, and Prints.
October 25, 1980.
114 pp., over 170 lots (including over 140 African American works of art by dozens of artists), b&w illus., brief commentary, exhibs., selected bibliog. for most artists. A significant and substantial early auction of African American work with African sculpture from Nigeria and fine antiquities from Egypt. 8vo, stapled wraps. First ed.
NEW YORK (NY). Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Black New York Artists of the 20th Century: Selections from the Schomburg Center Collections.
November 19, 1998-March 31, 1999.
96 pp. exhib. cat., 127 illus. (36 in color), bibliog. Ed. and text by curator Victor N. Smythe. Includes 125 artists: Tina Allen, Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Ellsworth Ausby, Abdullah Aziz, Xenobia Bailey, Ellen Banks, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Camille Billops, Bob Blackburn, Kabuya Bowens, William E. Braxton, Kay Brown, Selma Burke, Carole Byard, Elmer Simms Campbell, Nanette Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Violet Chandler, Colin Chase, Schroeder Cherry, Ed Clark, Houston Conwill, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Emilio Cruz, Michael Cummings, Dianne Davis, Lisa Corinne Davis, Francks Francois Deceus, Avel C. DeKnight, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Louis Delsarte, James Denmark, Aaron Douglas, Taiwo Duvall, Melvin Edwards, Elton Fax, Tom Feelings, Robert T. Freeman, Herbert Gentry, Rex Goreleigh, Theodore Gunn, Inge Hardison, Oliver Harrington, Verna Hart, Palmer Hayden, Carl E. Hazelwood, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Manuel Hughes, Bill Hutson, Harlan Jackson, Laura James, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jamillah Jennings, M.L.J. Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Oliver Johnson, Gwen Knight, Jacob Lawrence, Cecil Lee, Hughie Lee-Smith, Richard Leonard, Norman Lewis, Bell Earl Looney, Valerie Maynard, Dindga McCannon, Sam Middleton, Onaway K. Millar, Louis E. Mimms, Tyrone Mitchell, Mark Keith Morse, George J.A. Murray, Sr., Sana Musasama, Otto Neals, Jide Ojo, Ademola Olugebefola, James Phillips, Anderson Pigatt, Robert S. Pious, Rose Piper, Georgette Seabrooke Powell, Debra Priestly, Ronald Okoe Pyatt, Abdur-Rahman, Patrick Reason, Donald A. Reid, Earle Richardson, Faith Ringgold, Winfred J. Russell, Alison Saar, Augusta Savage, Charles Searles, Charles Sebree, James Sepyo, Abdul Shabazz, Milton Sherrill, Danny Simmons, Deborah Singletary, Albert Alexander Smith, Mei Tei Sing-Smith, Vincent Smith, Tesfaye Tessema, Dox Thrash, Haileyesus Tilahun, Bo Walker, Arlington Weithers, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Emmett Wigglesworth, Billy Doe Williams, Grace Williams, Michael Kelly Williams, Walter H. Williams, William T. Williams, Ellis Wilison, George Wilson, Ron and Addelle Witherspoon, Hale Woodruff. as well as work by members of the collectives Spiral and Weusi and the early '70s exhibit by black women artists called Where We At, and dozens more. 4to (28 x 22 cm.), pictorial wraps. First ed.
NEW YORK (NY). Studio Museum in Harlem.
The Studio Museum in Harlem: 25 Years of African-American Art.
Thru May, 1994.
56 pp., 43 color plates, checklist of 45 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints, brief bibliog. and short biogs. of the 43 artists included. Intro. by Valerie J. Mercer. Includes: painting by Frederick J. Brown, Ed Clark, Herbert Gentry, Sam Gilliam, Cynthia Hawkins, Manuel Hughes, Kerry James Marshall, Howardena Pindell, John Rozelle, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams; sculpture by Colin Chase, Nadine DeLawrence, Melvin Edwards, Richard Hunt, Donald Locke, Betye Saar; drawings by Juan Cash, Robert Colescott, Emilio Cruz, Louis J. Delsarte, Thornton Dial, Sr., John E. Dowell, Barkley Hendricks, Ben Jones, Nellie Mae Rowe, Leon Waller; collages by Romare Bearden, Candace Hill; prints by Nanette Carter, James E. Dupree, Ray Grist, Michael Kendall, Norman Lewis, Carolyn Maitland, Valerie Maynard, Howard McCalebb, Lloyd McNeill, Lev Mills, Lee Pate, Stephanie Weaver, Michael Kelly Williams, Richard Yarde. [Review by Holland Cotter, NYT, May 5, 1993.] [Traveled.] Sq. 8vo, wraps. Ed. of 5000 copies.
OAKLAND (CA). Joyce Gordon Gallery.
Louis Delsarte and Ntozake Shange: Collaboration of Poetry and Painting.
April 6-29, 2007.
Painter-poet collaboration.
OAKLAND (CA). Thelma Harris Gallery.
Art - Shop Outside the Box.
November 19, 2004-January 15, 2005.
Group exhibition including: Louis Delsarte, Warren Goodson, Tosh Fomby, Charly (Carlos) Palmer, William Tolliver.
PHILADELPHIA (PA). Philadelphia Museum of African American Art.
Contemporary Romanticism.
2001.
Group exhibition of four artists. Included: Louis Delsarte, Howardena Pindell, Betye Saar, Richard Watson.
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
TAHA, HALIMA.
Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas.
New York: Crown, 1998.
xvi, 270 pp., approx. 150 color plates, brief bibliog., index, appendices of art and photo dealers, museums and other resources. Intro. by Ntozake Shange. Forewords by Dierdre Bibby and Samella Lewis. Text consists of a few sentences at best on most of the hundreds of listed artists. Numerous typos and other errors and misinformation throughout. 4to (29 cm.), laminated papered boards, d.j.
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.
UNIVERSITY PARK (MD). David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland.
Tradition Redefined: The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection of African American Art.
February 18-May 29, 2009.
101 pp. exhib. cat., illus. Artists included: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, Herman Kofi Bailey, Radcliffe Bailey, Amiri Baraka, Camille J. Billops, Moe Brooker, Vivian Browne, Archie Byron, Carl Christian, Claude Clark, Sr., Kevin E. Cole, Ernest Crichlow, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Louis Delsarte, David C. Driskell, Michael Ellison, David Fludd, Ramon Gabriel, Reginald Gammon, Sam Gilliam, John W. Hardrick, Palmer Hayden, Vertis Hayes, Humbert Howard, Stefanie Jackson, Wadsworth A. Jarrell, Fred Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Ronald Joseph, Larry Lebby, Norman Lewis, Donald Locke, James H. Malone, Edward Martin, Richard Mayhew, Valerie Maynard, Ealy Mays, E.J. Montgomery, Norma Morgan, Hayward Oubre, Joe Overstreet, Howardena Pindell, Charles Porter, James A. Porter, Teri Richardson, Preston Sampson, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Jewel Simon, Walter A. Simon, Thelma Johnson Streat, Freddy Styles, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Bill Taylor, Bob Thompson, Mildred J. Thompson, Larry Walker, Joyce Wellman, Jack H. White, William T. Williams, Ellis Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Hartwell Yeargans, James Yeargans.
WASHINGTON (DC). International Visions Gallery.
Artists for Obama - Restoration of America.
September 3-28, 2008.
Group exhibition of images of Obama and current political issues such as civil rights, disabilities, education, energy and environment, ethics, faith, family, poverty, Iraq, service. Included: Alex Bay, (Virginia) Adam Abdalla, Adger Cowans, Alonzo Davis, Betty Murchison, Bill Dorsey, Frank E. Smith, James Phillips, Joe Ruffin, Kevin Cole, Leonard Dawson, Louis Delsarte, Michael Platt, Otis Motley, Peter Robinson, Preston Sampson, Ron Walton, Tafa, Tim Davis, Ulysses Marshall.
WASHINGTON (DC). Millenium Arts Salon.
On Common Ground: Right Angles - The Fine Art of Printmaking.
2004.
Group exhibition. Included: Louis Delsarte, David Driskell, Sam Gilliam, Kevin Holder, Gwendolyn Knight, Samella Lewis, Percy Martin, Valerie Maynard, E.J. Montgomery, Anita Philyaw, Michael Platt, George Smith, Lou Stoval, and Ed Towles.
WASHINGTON (DC). Sixth District Police Headquarters.
The Evans-Tibbs Collection: Selections from the Permanent Holdings. 19th and 20th Century American Art.
August 25-31, 1985.
Unpag., 18 b&w illus., checklist of 40 works by 41 artists. Text by Thurlow E. Tibbs, Jr. An exhibition sponsored by the Far East Community Services, Inc. and the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Artists included: Charles Alston, John J. Audubon, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Hilda Brown, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Mary Reed Daniel, Beauford Delaney, Louis Delsarte, Richard Dempsey, Aaron Douglas, David Driskell, Clementine Hunter, Joshua Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Gerald McCain, Lev Mills, Marion Perkins, Delilah Pierce, Patrick Reason, Betye Saar, William E. Scott, Addison Scurlock, Charles Sebree, Sharon Sutton, Henry O. Tanner, Alma W. Thomas, Bill Traylor, Curtis Tucker, Yvonne Tucker, James Vanderzee, Joyce Wellman, James L. Wells, Charles White, Hale Woodruff. 4to (28 cm.), wraps. First ed.
WILBERFORCE (OH). National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center.
When the Spirit Moves: African American Art Inspired by Dance.
August 8-November 28, 1999.
170 pp. exhib. cat., color and b&w illus., maps, bibliog. Curated by Samella Lewis. Ed. by Barbara Glass; texts by: Barbara Glass, Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Melanye White-Dixon, Jacqui Malone, Katrina Hazzard-Donald, Samella Lewis. Group exhibition. Included: Benny Andrews, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John T. Biggers, Camille Billops, Elizabeth Catlett, Louis Delsarte, Sam Gilliam, Palmer Hayden, Richard Hunt, Valerie Maynard, Archibald Motley, Ademola Olugebefola, Howardena Pindell, John T. Scott, LaVon Van Williams, Richard Yarde, et al. [Traveled to: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, MI, January 22-April 23, 2000; Camille Love Crosby Museum, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, June 20-November 18, 2000; Anacostia Museum, Washington, DC, February 15-June 2, 2001.] 4to (28 cm.), wraps.