Item #46834 [Exhibition Catalog] Exhibition of Negro Artists of Chicago. featured artists, Chicago Black Renaissance, DC Washington, Marion Perkins Charles White, George Neal, Katherine Dorsey, Henry Avery, Alonzo J. Aden, Norman MacLeish, curator, intro.
[Exhibition Catalog] Exhibition of Negro Artists of Chicago

[Exhibition Catalog] Exhibition of Negro Artists of Chicago

Washington, DC: Howard University Gallery of Art, 1941. Very Good. Item #46834

Washington, DC: Howard University Gallery of Art, 1941. First Edition. Bifolium (28x20cm); illustrated wraps. Folds, soiling, light chipping, else Very Good and sound.

Quite uncommon exhibition catalog for a show held at Howard University's Gallery of Art and celebrating artists from the Chicago Black Renaissance, including a young Charles White, whose painting "Fatigue" was on display. Coming a year after the Chicago's own "American Negro Exposition," this show was put together to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the proclamation of the Thirteenth Amendment. Includes a brief story of George Neal, who had died two years earlier, and his influence on the Chicago Black art community. Rare with only a few copies appearing at auction and two holdings in OCLC at Yale and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.

Price: $750.00

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