Bibliography and Exhibitions
MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
GENERAL BOOKS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
ATLANTA (GA). Atlanta University.
Third Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Sculptures and Prints by Negro Artists.
April 2-30, 1944.
Juried group exhibition. Included: Charles Alston, William E. Artis, Annabelle Baker, Mike Bannarn, John T. Biggers, Selma Burke, Calvin Burnett, William S. Carter, Claude Clark, Francis P. Conch, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Rohan Crite, Mary Tobias Daniel, Roy DeCarava, Arthur Diggs, Lillian Dorsey, John Ferrar, Frederick C. Flemister, Charlotte Franklin, Charles Haig, Vertis C. Hayes, Mark Hewitt, Jenelsie Holloway, John Miller Howard, Sargent Johnson, Henry Bozeman Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Clarence Lawson, Hughie Lee-Smith, Samella Lewis, Frank Neal, Cecil D. Nelson, Jr. ((winner, John Hope Purchase award, landscape painting), Allison Oglesby, James Dallas Parks, Horace Pippin, James Porter, Walter W. Smith, Clyde Turner, John E. Washington, Ora Washington, Albert Wells, James Lesesne Wells, Ellis Wilson, John Wilson, Vernon Winslow, Hale Woodruff, Frank Wyley, et al. [Review: Art News, May 1, 1944):7.
HARLEY, RALPH L., JR.
Checklist of Afro-American Art and Artists.
1970.
In: Serif 7 (December 1970):3-63. What could have been the foundation of future scholarship is unfortunately marred by errors of all kinds and the inclusion of numerous white artists. All Black artists are cross-referenced.
LOCKE, ALAIN.
Chicago's New Southside Art Center.
1941.
In: Magazine of Art 34, no. 7 (AugustSeptember, 1941). Includes Elizabeth Catlett, Charles T. Haig, et al. 4to, wraps.
NEW YORK (NY). McMillen Inc.
Negro Art: Contemporary.
October 16-November 7, 1941.
4 pp. exhib. cat., checklist of 50 paintings and 6 sculptures. Includes three works by Selma Burke, and more than one work by each of the following: Joseph Delaney, Lorraine Williams, Ramon Gabriel, Beauford Delaney, William Carter, Romare Bearden, Eldzier Cortor, William H. Johnson, Norman Lewis, Joseph Artur Kersey, Charles Sebree, along with numerous others such as John Carlis, Ernest Crichlow, Charles T. Haig, Ronald Joseph. [Review: James W. Lane, "Afro-American Art on Both Continents: The Great Contribution of the Artistic Negro," Art News 40 (October 15, 1941):25.] 8vo, blue paper wraps. First ed.
WASHINGTON (DC). Howard University.
Exhibition of Negro Artists of Chicago.
February 1-25, 1941.
(4) pp. exhib. cat., illus., list of artists included. Text by Norman MacLeash "Negro Art in Chicago." Presented in observance of National Negro History Week and the 75th anniversary of the Proclamation of the 13th Amendment. Artists included: Henry Avery, Margaret Burroughs, John Carlis, William Carter, Eldzier Cortor, Charles Davis, Katherine Dorsey, Ramon Gabriel, Bernard Goss, Charles T. Haig, Fred Hollingsworth, Clarence Lawson, Frank Neal, George Neal (illus.), Charles Sebree, Earl Walker, Charles White; sculptors Edward T. Collier, Joseph A. Kersey (illus.), Marion Perkins, David Ross. Alonzo Aden. [Review: Rosa Chatfield-Taylor, "Howard University Holds Negro Exhibit," The Washington Post (Feb. 16, 1941):VI:4.]