Mar 30, 2023 - Sale 2631

Sale 2631 - Lot 100

Price Realized: $ 531
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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(ART.) E.W. Gordon and James A. Porter. Black Artists in America. Portfolio, 19 x 12 inches, containing slightly smaller inner sleeve and 8 plates; light foxing to outer portfolio, minimal wear to contents. New York: Horace Mann Lincoln Institute, Columbia University, 1972
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A portfolio consisting of 10 items:

Outer title sleeve with Charles White image on cover and "An Introductory Note" by Edmund W. Gordon inside.

Inner sleeve with an illustrated 4-page essay, "One Hundred and Fifty Years of Afro-American Art," by James Amos Porter.

8 plates, each dedicated to one artist, each including biographical text and two or three illustrations: Selma Burke, Elizabeth Catlett, Ernest Crichlow, Richard Hunt, Loïs Mailou Jones, Richard Mayhew, Charles White, and Hale Woodruff. Charles White was a consultant on the project.