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INSCRIBED BY LOCKE (ART.) Locke, Alain. Negro Art: Past and Present. [6], 122 pages. 8vo, publisher's pictorial boards, minimal wear; minimal wear to contents; signed and inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Washington: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1936
First edition of the first substantial study of African-American artists, written by the first African-American Rhodes Scholar and a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. It was printed as part of the Bronze Booklet series. It is inscribed "For Stefan Hirsch, in cordial friendship, Alain Locke, 1941" to a well-known German-American artist who was then teaching at the Art Students League of New York. Blockson 8100 (describing a later reprint).
