(ART.) MOORLAND, DR. JESSE E. Catalogue of Exhibition by Negro Artists, Held at the New York Public Library. 8 pages. Tall 4to, original printed decorative tan and red stiff wrappers. an exceptional copy. New York: NYPL, 1922
a rare and important catalogue of african american artists, the second such exhibit ever assembled. Art historian James Amos Porter called it "the first worthy chronological display of modern Negro artists." Included in the exhibit were Meta Vaux Fuller, James Lesesne Wells, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Albert Smith, Elmer Stoner, George Young, and others. In 1920, Ernestine Rose, a white woman had come to work at the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library. She almost immediately moved to integrate the staff, hiring Catherine Latimer the first African-American librarian, and later Sadie Peterson Delaney, also African-American. Together they brought the library into the lives of the community at a time when the Harlem Renaissance was beginning to take shape. OCLC locates only microfiche copies.
