REFERENCE. HARMON FOUNDATION. Exhibition of Negro Artists, for the years, 1931, 1933 and 1935. Illustrated throughout. Uniform small 8vo's, original pictorial wrappers, stapled; aside from some slight discoloration to the cover of the 1933 volume, in very good condition.
first editions. William Elmer Harmon, real estate magnate, began recognizing the accomplishments of African American artists after an encounter with a young black man who could not sell his work because of his color. Harmon not only helped him, he began to give awards to African Americans for excellence in art, and literature around 1925. Catalogues such as these were the outcome of contests held each year from 1928 through 1935. Artists included in these catalogues: Richmond Barthe, Allan Freelon, Meta Warrick Fuller, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Archibald Motley, Richard Bruce Nugent, Augusta Savage, Laura Wheeler Waring, and Hale Woodruff.
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