(ART) ABA A Journal of Affairs of Black Artists

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(ART.) ABA: A Journal of Affairs of Black Artists. Numerous illustrations. 28 pages. 4to, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, original glossy-stock wrappers, minor soiling; early owner's signature on front wrapper. [Dorchester, MA], circa March 1971

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The first and only issue of this ambitious journal, featuring articles by Edmund B. Gaither, Abdul Hakimu Ibn Alkalimat (Gerald McWhorter), JoAnn Whatley (an interview with Benny Andrews about his Black Emergency Cultural Coalition and its impending boycott of the Whitney), and Elvin Montgomery (writing on the 19th-century Californian artist and engraver Grafton Tyler Brown). In the rear are notes on upcoming exhibitions and other news bits; Hughie Lee-Smith offers a short appreciation for the late James Amos Porter. None traced at auction.