African Americans in Art: Selections from The Art Institute of Chicago

Rossen, Susan F.

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BOOKAfrican Americans in Art: Selections from The Art Institute of Chicago

Susan F. Rossen (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00008

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16322

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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Susan F. Rossen (Editor)

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Print publication date May 1999 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300114799

EISBN 9780300236859

Illustrations 95 Illus.

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List of illustrations

Frederick Douglass
Delia
Jack
Frontispiece (portrait of Frederick Douglass)
Frederick Douglass at an Outdoor Abolitionist Meeting, Cazenovia, New York
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
Frederick A. Douglass
M. B. Brady’s New Photographic Gallery, Corner of Broadway and Tenth Street, New York, detail
Frederick Douglass (with case)
Portrait of Alexander Thorn
William Lloyd Garrison
Map of Western Reserve area
John Brown
Douglass Confronts Opponents to Abolition at an Antislavery Meeting in Indiana
Thomas Auld
Self-Portrait
Archibald J. Motley, Jr.
The Octoroon Girl
A Mulatress
Mammy
Kikuyu God of Fire
Waganda [Uganda] Woman's Dream
Orchestra
The Liar
Saturday Night
Nightlife
Harlem, Tuesday Night at the Savoy
How Ya Like Me Now?
Mrs. Andrew Bedford Bankson and Son, Gunning Bedford Bankson
Two Disciples at the Tomb
Coney Island
Study for Aspects of Negro Life: The Negro in an African Setting
Train Station
Cabin in the Cotton
Daddy Grace at the Altar with Choir
Coming Home from Work
Oak Bluffs
Jitterbug II
The Boxer
Self-Portrait
Graduation
Green Bough
Birthday Party
Man Coming Up Subway Stairs
Harvest Talk
Sharecropper
Hero Construction
Afrophoenix No. 1
First Day of School
Death of the Infant Bethel
Mt Mowbullan in Dividing Range near Brisbane Australia
Starry Night with Astronauts
The Return of Odysseus (Homage to Pinturicchio and Benin)
Vanilla Nightmares #2
2nd Annual Carnival Ball Benefit for the DuSable Museum of African American History
Many Mansions
Keys to the Coop
Merion Perkins posing with his prize-winning sculpture "Man of Sorrows" (1950), at the Art Institute's "55th Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity," in the spring of 1951
Mask of Eva
Portrait of Eva
Onward
Negro Mother and Child
Biltmore Hotel, South Haven, Michigan
Biltmore Hotel staff with Perkins's sculptures
John Henry
Let John Henry Go
Negro Artists
Woman with a Shawl
Seated Figure
Figure at Rest
Seated Woman
Mother and Child
Untitled
Marion Perkins shown carving "Untitled" in the courtyard behind his home in the Ida B. Wells project, Chicago, 1947
Ethiopia Awakening
Ethiopia Awakening
Standing Figure
Man of Sorrows
Marion Perkins scavenging for materials, Chicago, spring 1951
Marion and Eva Perkins outside their home, Chicago, spring 1951
Marion Perkins with Peter Pollack in the galleries of The Art Institute of Chicago, spring 1951
Dying Soldier
Unknown Political Prisoner
Skywatcher
Study in Flight
Sancho Panza and Don Quixote
Marion Perkins with several of his works on the stairs to his home, Chicago, spring 1951
Black and tanned your whipped wind of change howled low blowing itself-ha-smack into the middle of Ellington's orchestra billie heard it too & cried strange fruit tears
Outline
Suit
For Your Names You Took Hope & Humble
Untitled from the series Portrait of My People
Untitled from the series Portrait of My People
Untitled

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Susan F. Rossen (Editor)

African Americans in Art: Selections from The Art Institute of Chicago

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Susan F. Rossen (Editor)

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Introduction

Susan F. Rossen

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...

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Susan F. Rossen

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.140-143

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00008.001

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16324

Chapter subject tags:African American artAfrican American men in artAfrican American artistsChicago (Ill.)--History--1875-Art schools

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Frederick Douglass Chooses His Moment

Colin L. Westerbeck

African Americans in Art: Selections from The Art Institute of Chicago

The centerpiece of the 1997 exhibition “In Their Own Right: Images of African Americans from The Art Institute of Chicago” was a pre-Civil War daguerreotype of the Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass (fig. 1) that the museum had recently acquired. “In Their Own...

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Colin L. Westerbeck

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.145-161

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00008.002

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Chapter subject tags:Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895Antislavery movementsDaguerreotypePortrait photographyArt and photographyPortrait photography--Posing

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Representing Race: Disjunctives in the Work of Archibald J. Motley, Jr.

Amy M. Mooney

African Americans in Art: Selections from The Art Institute of Chicago

In 1978, at the age of eighty-six, the noted Chicago painter Archibald J. Motley, Jr., sat down to reflect on his successful career with Dennis Barrie of the Archives of American Art. Reminiscing about a wide range of topics, he continually returned to the issue of race...

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Amy M. Mooney

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.163-179

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00008.003

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16326

Chapter subject tags:United States--Race relationsAfrican American men in artPortrait painting, AmericanRace awareness in artStereotypes (Social psychology) in artAfrican American art

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A Portfolio of Works by African American Artists: Continuing the Dialogue: A Work in Progress

Andrea D. Barnwell and Kirsten P. Buick

African Americans in Art: Selections from The Art Institute of Chicago

On the threshold of a new millennium, how should we proceed with the dialogue about art made by African Americans? It is often difficult for many late twentieth-century viewers to recognize how irrevocably informed we continue to be by ideologies of race...

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Andrea D. Barnwell and Kirsten P. Buick

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.181-219

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00008.004

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16327

Chapter subject tags:African American artAfrican American artistsUnited States--Race relationsRace awareness in artArt genres

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Marion Perkins: A Chicago Sculptor Rediscovered

Daniel Schulman

African Americans in Art: Selections from The Art Institute of Chicago

In the 1950s, Marion Perkins (1908–1961) was one of Chicago’s foremost sculptors. He participated in nearly one dozen invitational exhibitions at The Art Institute of Chicago from 1942 to 1957 and...

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Daniel Schulman

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.221-242

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00008.005

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Chapter subject tags:African American artAfrican American sculptorsSocialismFigure sculpture, AmericanArt--Political aspects

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Fragmented Documents: Works by Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, and Willie Robert Middlebrook at The Art Institute of Chicago

Cherise Smith

African Americans in Art: Selections from The Art Institute of Chicago

Roy DeCarava’s 1952 photograph Man Coming Up Subway Stairs (Portfolio, no. 16) features a middle-aged African American with jacket under his arm, ascending a stairway. The diagonal of the handrail and the right angles formed by the steps and lines of the building draw our attention to the subject’s expressive face...

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Cherise Smith

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.245-259

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00008.006

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Chapter subject tags:African American artMixed media (Art)Documentary photographyGender identity in artRace in artSubjectivity in art

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