Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(ART.) LOCKE, ALAIN. Exhibition of The Art of the American Negro (1851-1940) . . . Assembled by the American Negro Exposition. On View July 4 to September 2, 1940. Tanner Art Galleries (cover title). 12 pages. 4to, original printed pictorial wrappers of Charles White's "There Were No Crops This Year"; minor wrinkle and three tiny (1 cm) archival paper repairs to the outer blank margins of the last three leaves, not affecting text or image. Chicago: American Negro Exposition, 1940

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An important exhibition put together by Alonzo Aden of Howard University with the cooperation of the Harmon Foundation and the WPA, and held in conjunction with the American Negro Exposition at Chicago in 1940.