(ART) Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro Assembl

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(ART.) Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro . . . Assembled by the American Negro Exposition. [12] pages. 4to, 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches, original illustrated wrappers, minor soiling, cello tape mount remnants on rear wrapper; inscribed by the curator on the front wrapper "You know that my sincerest regards come with this to you, Alonzo J. Aden." Chicago, 4 July 1940

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The catalog for the Tanner Art Galleries exhibition in conjunction with Chicago's American Negro Exposition. The front cover wrapper is illustrated with a piece by Charles White, and inside are 16 other black and white illustrations of works by Robert Duncanson, Frederic Flemister, Eldzier Cortor, Marvin Smith, William Carter, Hales Woodruff, Jacob Lawrence, Lois Maillou Jones, E. Simms Campbell, Donald Reid, Robert Blackburn, Elizabeth Catlett, Richmond Barthé, Sargent Johnson and Joseph Kersey. More than 300 individual pieces are listed for this historic exhibition, which Alain Locke describes in the preface as the "most comprehensive and representative collection of the Negro's art that has ever been presented to public view." The curator Alonzo Aden, who signed the cover, went on to found the Barnett-Aden Gallery in Washington, the first successful Black-owned gallery in the nation.