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Barbara Earl Thomas
The Illuminated Body
A talented visual storyteller, Barbara Earl Thomas has drawn from history, literature, folklore, mythology, and biblical stories over her forty-year career to reflect the social fabric of our times. Thomas’s figural and narrative imagery has...
ISBN: 9798987929315
more detailsStitching Love and Loss
A Gee's Bend Quilt
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
more detailsBarbara Earl Thomas
The Geography of Innocence
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
more detailsJacob Lawrence
The American Struggle
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
more detailsWanted: Ed Bereal
For Disturbing the Peace
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
more detailsThe Unicorn Incorporated
Curtis R. Barnes
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
more detailsWilliam H. Johnson
An American Modern
"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
more detailsElizabeth Catlett
An American Artist in Mexico
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
more detailsNever Late for Heaven
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
more detailsThe 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
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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