Susan F. Rossen
Susan F. Rossen is the former Executive Director of Publications at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Rossen, Susan F.
Rossen, Susan F.
United States of America
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Description: African Americans in Art: Selections from The Art Institute of Chicago
~This issue of The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, “African Americans in Art: Selections from The Art Institute of Chicago,” has been organized in recognition of the significant expansion of our holdings of works by African Americans, as well as of examples by other artists in which African Americans are the subjects. It provides...
PublisherArt Institute of Chicago
Related print edition pages: pp.140-143
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00008.001
Description: African Americans in Art: Selections from The Art Institute of Chicago
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00008
This special, expanded issue of Museum Studies focuses on the Art Institute of Chicago's growing collection of works by African Americans. Essays on the work of such influential artists as Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Marion Perkins, and Lorna Simpson are presented along with an article on the Art Institute’s striking daguerreotype of Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass. In addition to these essays, a portfolio section features twenty-nine images, with informative, brief entries examining each work. This important publication presents an overview of the concerns surrounding race in art, celebrates the achievements of a number of gifted African American artists, and provides a broad, multifaceted view of American art and culture.

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Print publication date May 1999 (out of print)
Print ISBN 9780300114799
EISBN 9780300236859
Illustrations 95 Illus.
Print Status out of print