(ART) [LOCKE ALAIN] Exhibition of the Art of the American Ne

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(ART.) [LOCKE, ALAIN.] Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro (1851-1940). Assembled for the American Negro Exposition. 16 pages. Large 4to, original pictorial black and white wrappers. an exceptional copy. Chicago: American Negro Exposition, 1940

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Front cover illustration of an award-winning drawing by Charles White, with 16 other black and white illustrations of paintings, water-colors and sculpture 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 Barthe, Sargent Johnson and Joseph Kersey--more than 300 individual pieces displayed at the Tanner Galleries in conjunction with the Historic American Negro Exposition. An historic exhibition, which Alain Locke, 'Father of the Harlem Renaissance,' hailed in his preface as the 'most comprehensive and representative collection of Negro art that has ever been presented to public view.'