(ART) Alain Locke The Negro in Art A Pictorial Record of the

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(ART.) Alain Locke. The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art. Color frontispiece plate, color double-page spread after page 124, hundreds of illustrations. 224 pages. 4to, publisher's gilt cloth, minor wear; minimal wear to contents; signed and inscribed "For Julius Bloch, a friend of many years, Alain Locke, 1941" on front free endpaper. Washington, DC: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1940

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First edition of the first serious book-length study of Black artists, by the longtime Howard University professor and key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. It is inscribed to a well-known German social realist painter.