书名：Collecting African American Art: The Museum of Fine Arts、Houston / 收藏非裔美国艺术：休斯顿美术博物馆
定价：150.0
ISBN：9780300152913
作者：John Hope Franklin
版次：1
出版时间：2009-01

内容提要：

题 目：Collecting African American Art: The Museum of Fine Arts、Houston / 收藏非裔美国艺术：休斯顿美术博物馆

作 者：John Hope Franklin

出 版：The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston，2009

装 帧：平装，152页

语 种：英语

尺 寸：17*24 cm

 

 

 

This important book showcases institutional and private efforts to collect, document, and preserve African American art in American’s fourth largest city, Houston, Texas. Eminent historian John Hope Franklin’s essay reveals his passionate commitment to collect African American art, while curator Alvia J. Wardlaw discusses works by Robert S. Duncanson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Horace Pippen, and Bill Traylor as well as pieces by contemporary artists Kojo Griffin and Mequitta Ahuja. Quilts, pottery, and a desk made by an African American slave for his daughter contribute to the overview.

 

The book also focuses on the collections of the “black intelligentsia,” African Americans who taught at black colleges like Fisk University, where Aaron Douglas founded the art department. A number of the artists represented were collected privately before they were able to exhibit in mainstream museums.