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Stitching Love and Loss

Stitching Love and Loss

A Gee's Bend Quilt

By Lisa Gail Collins

In 1942 Missouri Pettway, newly suffering the loss of her husband, pieced together a quilt out of his old, worn work clothes. Nearly six decades later her daughter Arlonzia Pettway, approaching eighty at the time...

ISBN: 9780295751603

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Barbara Earl Thomas

Barbara Earl Thomas

The Geography of Innocence

By Catharina Manchanda, Halima Taha, and Barbara Earl Thomas

Barbara Earl Thomas’s new body of work carries within it the sediments of history and grapples with race and the color line. At the heart of it lies a story of life and death, hope...

ISBN: 9780932216786

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Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Lawrence

The American Struggle

By Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly

This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence’s radical way of transforming history into art by looking at...

ISBN: 9780295747040

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Wanted: Ed Bereal

Wanted: Ed Bereal

For Disturbing the Peace

By Amy Chaloupka

Born in Riverside, California in 1937 and profoundly affected by World War II, Ed Bereal made significant contributions to assemblage and performance arts in Los Angeles during the early 1960s through 1980s. A consummate draftsman...

ISBN: 9780578486932

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The Unicorn Incorporated

The Unicorn Incorporated

Curtis R. Barnes

By Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker

The Unicorn Incorporated celebrates the work and career of Seattle artist Curtis R. Barnes. For over five decades, Barnes has worked as an artist, illustrator, muralist, and community advocate. In his sculpture, painting, and drawing,...

ISBN: 9780962460289

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William H. Johnson

William H. Johnson

An American Modern

By Teresa G. Gionis

"My aim is to express in a natural way what I feel, what is in me, both rhythmically and spiritually, all that which in time has been saved up in my family of primitiveness and...

ISBN: 9780295991481

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Elizabeth Catlett

Elizabeth Catlett

An American Artist in Mexico

By Melanie Anne Herzog

Elizabeth Catlett, born in Washington, DC, in 1915, is widely acknowledged as a major presence in African American art, and her work is celebrated as a visually eloquent expression of African American identity and pride...

ISBN: 9780295985459

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Never Late for Heaven

Never Late for Heaven

By Sheryl Conkelton and Barbara Earl Thomas. Foreword by Janeanne A. Upp

Never Late for Heaven chronicles an odyssey in American art and social events beginning with the often-romanticized Harlem Renaissance and traveling through the Great Depression and beyond. Gwen Knight’s story reveals the life and the...

ISBN: 9780295983127

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The Complete Jacob Lawrence

The Complete Jacob Lawrence

Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence AND Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), A Catalogue Raisonne

By Peter T. Nesbett, Michelle DuBois

This two-volume set, including Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence and Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), A Catalogue Raisonne, is the definitive publication on the work of artist Jacob...

ISBN: 9780295979632

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