Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 132

Price Realized: $ 450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(ART.) LOCKE, ALAIN. The Negro in Art, a Pictorial Record of the Negro artist and of the Negro Theme in Art. Color frontispiece of Sargent Johnson's "Mother and Child. Copious additional illustrations in the text. Large 4to, original green buckram, lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine. A very nice copy. Washington: Association in Negro Folk Education, 1940

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first edition of locke's pioneer study. This and James Amos Porter's "Modern Negro Art" (1943) were the first serious studies of African-American artists.