Artist's Biographies


			Terry Adkins Born Washington, D.C., 1953 B.S., Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1975 M.S., Illinois State University, Normal, 1977 M.F.A., University of Kentucky, Lexington, 1979 Instructor, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, 1977 Associate Professor, SUNY New Paltz, New York, 1996 Major Exhibitions: Project Binz 39, Zurich, 1986 Salama-Caro Gallery, London, 1987 Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, 1995 International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1997 Edward Mitchell Bannister Born St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada, c. 1826 Emigrated to Boston, c. 1848 Attended anatomy classes with Dr. William Brimmer, early 1860s Photographer, daguerreotypist, 1863-1865 Portrait painter, 1863-1872 Moved to Providence, Rhode Island, 1869 Bronze Medal in Art, Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, 1876 Founder, Providence Art Club, 1872 Board of Directors, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island Died 1901 Major Exhibitions: Boston Art Club juried annual exhibitions Hall of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, 1876 Retrospective, Providence Art Club, Rhode Island 1891 Sharing Traditions: Five Black Artists in Nineteenth-Century America National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., 1985 Newport Art Museum, New Jersey, 1990 Edward Mitchell Bannister 1828-1901, Kenkeleba House, New York, 1992 Richmond Barthé Born Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, 1901 Chicago Art Institute, 1924-1928 Art Students League, New York, 1931 M.A., Xavier University, New Orleans, 1934 A.F.D., St. Francis College, Brooklyn, New York, 1947 Died 1989 Major Exhibitions: Delphic Studios, New York, 1925 Caz-Delbos Gallery, New York, 1933 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1933, 1935, 1939 World's Fair, New York, 1947 Romare Bearden Born Charlotte, North Carolina, 1914 B.S., New York University, 1935 Studied at Art Students League, New York, 1936-1937 Case Worker, Department of Social Services, 1938-1966 (intermittently) Studied philosophy at Sorbonne, Paris, 1950 Began to work primarily in collage, 1963/1964 Died 1988 Major Exhibitions: New Names in American Art, Baltimore Museum, Maryland, 1944 Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York, 1945 Cordier & Warren Gallery, New York, 1961 Projections, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965 Romare Bearden: The Prevalence of Ritual, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971 Memory and Metaphor: The Art of Romare Bearden, 1940-1987, Studio Museum in Harlem, 1991 John Biggers Born Gastonia, North Carolina, 1924 Entered Hampton Institute, 1941 M.S., Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1948 Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1954 Joined staff at Texas Southern University, 1949 First trip to Africa, 1957 Retired as head of art department, Texas Southern University, 1983 Major Exhibitions: Drawings and Paintings by John Biggers and Jack Boynton, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 1954 Drawings of West Africa: Dr. John Biggers, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1962 The Web of Life in Africa: An Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings by John T. Biggers, African-American Cultural Center, Dallas 1978 John Biggers: Bridges, California Museum of Afro-American History and Culture, Los Angeles, 1983 Five Decades: John Biggers and the Hampton Art Tradition, Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia, 1990 The Art of John Biggers: View from the Upper Room, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Virginia, 1995 Grafton Tyler Brown Born Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1841 Moved to California, mid-1850s Formed G.T. Brown & Co., 1867 Moved to Canada, 1882 Moved to Portland, 1886 Member of Portland Art Club, 1886-1890 Moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, 1892 Died 1918 Major Exhibitions: The Oakland Museum, California, 1972 Two Centuries of Black American Art, Los Angeles County Museum, 1976 The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, 1994 Elizabeth Catlett Born Washington, D.C., 1915 B.A., Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1937 Instructor, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, 1942-1943 Moved to Mexico, 1949 Member of Taller de Gràfica Popular, 1946-1966 Chairman, Sculpture Department, School of Fine Arts, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1959 Major Exhibitions: Solo Exhibition, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1983 Solo Exhibition, Hampton University, 1993 Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors: A Study in Paradox, Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, 1996-1998 Bearing Witness, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, 1996 Claude Clark Born Rickingham, Georgia, 1915 Studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, Philadelphia, 1935-1939 WPA, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1939-1942 Barnes Foundation Fellow, 1939-1944 Instructor, art department, Talladega College, 1948-1955 M.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1962 Instructor, Merritt College, Oakland, California, 1968-1981 Major Exhibitions: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1937-1971, Paintings by Claude Clark, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1972 Claude Clark: On My Journey Now: A Selection of Paintings from 1940-1986, The Apex Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, 1996 Robert Colescott Born Oakland, California, 1925 Studied with Fernand Léger, Paris, 1949-1950 B.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1949 M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1952 Professor of art history, American College, Paris, 1967-1969 Instructor of painting and drawing, San Francisco Art Institute, 1976-1985 Professor of art, University of Arizona, Tucson, 1985 to present Major Exhibitions: Robert Colescott: A Retrospective, 1975-1986, San Jose Museum of Art, 1989 Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester County, New York, 1995 Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1993 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1994 Eldzier Cortor Born Richmond, Virginia, 1916 Art Institute of Chicago, 1936 WPA, Chicago, 1940 Studied in Sea Islands, Georgia, on Rosenwald Fellowship, 1944-1945 Studied in Jamaica, Cuba, and Haiti on Guggenheim Fellowship, 1949 Teacher, Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1949-1951 Major Exhibitions: Three Masters: Eldzier Cortor, Hughie Lee-Smith and Archibald John Motley, Jr., Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, 1988 Allan Rohan Crite Born Plainfield, New Jersey, 1910 One of the few African American artists to work briefly for the Federal Arts Project (FAP), 1930s Studied at School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1939 A.B., Harvard University Extension School, 1968 Lives and works in Boston Major Exhibitions: Widely exhibited since the 1920s Harmon Foundation Exhibitions, 1930s Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1936 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1939 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1978 Allan Crite's Boston, The Boston Athenaeum, 1997 Roy DeCarava Born New York, 1919 Cooper Union Art School, 1938-1940 Harlem Art Center, New York, 1944-1945 Founder and Director, A Photographer's Gallery, New York, 1954-1956 Freelance photographer, New York, 1959-1968 and since 1975 Professor of art, Cooper Union Institute, New York, 1969-1972 and 1975-1988 Distinguished Professor of Art, Hunter College, New York, since 1988 Major Exhibitions: Always the Young Strangers, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1953 Through Black Eyes, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 1969 The Nation's Capitol in Photographs, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1976 Jazz pa Fotografiska, Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm, 1986 Recent Photographs, Witkin Gallery, New York, 1990 Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1997 Beauford Delaney Born Knoxville, Tennessee, 1901 Studied at the Massachusetts Normal School, 1924 Moved to New York City, 1929 Moved to Paris, 1953 Died 1979 Major Exhibitions: Vendome Gallery, Artists' Gallery, New York, 1940s RoKo Gallery, New York, 1940s Gallerie Paul Fachetti, 1960 Black Master, Studio Museum in Harlem, 1978 Aaron Douglas Born Topeka, Kansas, 1899 B.F.A., University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1922 Studied under Winold Reiss in New York, 1924-1927 L'Académie Scandinave, Paris, 1931 M.A., Columbia University Teachers College, New York, 1944 Founder/Chair of art department, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1937-1966 Died 1979 Major Exhibitions: D'Caz-Delbo Gallery, New York, 1934 Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1937 Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1948, 1952, 1953 Newark Museum, New Jersey, 1971 Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 1982 Robert Scott Duncanson Born New York state, 1821 Moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, 1840 First traveled to Europe, 1853 Sought exile in Canada, 1863-1865 Traveled to England and Scotland and exhibited major works, 1866 Returned to Cincinnati, 1867 Died 1872 Major Exhibitions: Two Centuries of Black American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976 Sharing Traditions: Five Artists in Nineteenth-Century America, National Museum of American Art, 1985 Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art, National Museum of American Art, 1992 Melvin Edwards Born Houston, 1937 B.F. A., University of Southern California Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1970-1972 Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1972 to present Major Exhibitions: Arts as Advocate, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971 Tradition and Conflict: Images of a Turbulent Decade, 1963-1973, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 1985 Lynch Fragment Series, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1985 Melvin Edwards Sculpture: A Thirty-Year Retrospective 1963-1993, Newerger Museum of Art, State University of New York at Purchase, 1993 Sources: Multicultural Influences on Contemporary African American Sculptors, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, 1994 Twentieth-Century American Sculpture at the White House, First Ladies' Garden, the White House, Washington, D.C., 1996 Minnie Evans Born Long Creek, North Carolina, 1892 Died 1987 Major Exhibitions: Retrospective Exhibition, Church of the Epiphany, New York, 1966 Solo Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1975 North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1986 Meta Warrick Fuller Born Philadelphia, 1877 Attended Pennsylvania Museum and School for the Industrial Arts, 1894-1899 Attended L'École des Beaux Arts and Académie Colarossi, Paris, 1899 Died 1968 Major Exhibitions: Annual exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1906, 1908, 1920, 1923 Making of America Exhibition, New York, 1931 Harmon Foundation, 1931 Exposition of the Art of the American Negro, 1851-1940 Tanner Art Galleries, Chicago, 1940 Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1961 Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors: A Study in Paradox, Afro-American Historical and Cultural Museum, Philadelphia, 1996-1998 Sam Gilliam Born Tupelo, Mississippi, 1933 M.S., University of Louisville, 1961 L.H.D., University of Louisville, 1980 L.H.D., Northwestern University, 1990 Relinquished figurative style for Washington Color Field, 1963 Relinquished narrative in compositions, c. 1982 Major Exhibitions: Gilliam/Krebs/McGowin, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969 Gilliam/Edwards/Williams: Extensions, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 1974 Modern Painters at the Corcoran: Sam Gilliam, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983 African American Art from the Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1990 Golden Windows Inside Gold, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1993-1995 Forty-Fourth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Michael D. Harris Born Cleveland, Ohio, 1948 M.F.A., Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1979 M.A., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1991 M. Phil., Yale University, 1991 Ph.D., Yale University, 1991 Assistant Professor, Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, 1981-1993 Georgia State University, 1993-1995 Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995 to present Major Exhibitions: Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1979 AfriCobra: The First Twenty Years, Southern Arts Federation, 1990 University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1991 Nexus Gallery, Chastain Park, Atlanta, Georgia, 1994 James V. Herring Born Clio, South Carolina, 1887 Studied at Syracuse University, Columbia University, and Harvard University Instructor, Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1921 Chairman, Art Department, Howard University, 1931-1952 Opened Barnett-Aden Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1943 Died 1969 Major Exhibitions: Two Centuries of Black American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976 Reflections of a Southern Heritage: Twentieth-Century Black Artists of the Southeast, Gibbes Art Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1979 Earl J. Hooks Born 1927 B.A., Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1945-1949 Catholic University, Washington, D.C., 1949-1951 Graduate certificate, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, 1954 Certificate in ceramics, School of American Craftsman, New York, 1954-1955 Professor/Chair of art department, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1961-1967 Indiana University Northwest Campus, 1954-1961 Major Exhibitions: Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1966 Carl Van Vechten Gallery of Fine Arts, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1985 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1954, 1957, 1963 Art Institute of Chicago, 1967 Lagos, Nigeria, 1977 Margo Humphrey Born Oakland, California, 1942 B.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, 1972 M.A., Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 1974 Resident, Tamarind Institute, New Mexico, 1977 Associate Professor of art, University of Maryland, College Park, 1989 to present Major Exhibitions New Perspectives, Oakland Museum, California, 1968 Herstory, Oakland Museum, California, 1990 Through Sisters' Eyes: Children's Books Illustrated by African-American Artists, National Museum of Women in the Arts Library and Research Center, Washington, D.C., 1992 Brody's Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1992 Clementine Hunter Born Cloutierville, Louisiana, c. 1887 Began as domestic, Melrose Plantation, Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1925 Began painting, 1940 Began to exhibit, 1945 Died 1988 Major Exhibitions: Clementine Hunter: Primitive Painter, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1955 Solo Exhibition, Delgado Museum, 1955 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California,1970 Forever Free: Art by African American Women 1862-1980, Illinois State University, Normal, 1981 A Centennial Salute to Clementine Hunter, New Orleans Museum of Art, 1985 Clementine Hunter, American Folk Artist: A Retrospective Exhibition, Museum of African American Life and Culture, Dallas, 1993 Wilmer Jennings Born Atlanta, Georgia, 1910 B.S., Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, 1933 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1940s Jewelry Designer, Imperial Pearl, Rhode Island, 1948-1979 Died 1990 Major Exhibitions Black Printmakers and the W.P.A., The Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York, 1989 Against the Odds: African-American Artists and the Harmon Foundation, Newark Museum, New Jersey, 1989 Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s by African-American Artists; From the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams, American Federation of the Arts, 1993 William H. Johnson Born Florence, South Carolina, 1901 National Academy of Design, New York, 1921-1926 Moved to Paris, 1926 Traveled to Tunisia, North Africa, 1932 Returned to New York, 1938 Teacher, Harlem Community Arts Center, WPA, 1939-1943 Died 1970 Major Exhibitions: Harmon Foundation Exhibitions, 1930-1937 Paintings by William H. Johnson, Alma Reed Galleries, New York, 1941 American Negro Art: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Newark Museum, New Jersey, 1944 William H. Johnson: A Retrospective Exhibit, Countee Cullen Branch, New York Public Library, 1956-1957 Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 1987 The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1989 Homecoming: William H. Johnson and Afro-Americana, 1938-1946, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., 1991 Lois Mailou Jones Born Boston, Massachusetts, 1905 Designers Art School of Boston, 1927-1928 Académie Julian, Paris, 1937-1938 A.B., Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1945 Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, 1962 Chair, Palmer Memorial Institute, Sedalia, North Carolina, 1928-1930 Professor, Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1930-1977 Died 1998 Major Exhibitions: Atlanta University Annual Exhibition, Georgia, 1949 Centre d'Art, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1954 Société des Artistes Français, Grand-Palais, France, 1966 Boston Museum of Fine Arts (retrospective), 1973 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1994 Jacob Lawrence Born Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1917 Harlem Art Workshop, New York, 1932-1939 American Artists School, New York 1937-1939 Instructor, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, Summers, 1954, 1968-1972 Instructor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, 1955-1970 Instructor, Five Towns Music and Art Foundation, Cedarhurst, Long Island, 1955-1962 and 1966-1968 Full Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, 1970 Major Exhibitions: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1974 Midtown Payson Galleries, New York, 1993 Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, 1994 Art Institute of Chicago, 1995 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1996 National Academy of Design, New York, 1996 Norman Lewis Born New York, 1909 Columbia University, New York Instructor Savage Studio, New York, 1935-1937 Harlem Art Center, General Art Project, New York, 1936-1939 Art Students League, New York, 1972-1977 Died 1979 Major Exhibitions: Willard Gallery, New York, 1949, 1950-1954, 1957 Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951 Art Institute of Chicago, 1956 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1958 Robeson Center Gallery, Newark, New Jersey, 1985 Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, 1989 Richard Mayhew Born Amityville, New York, 1924 Columbia University, New York, 1953-1957 Art Students League, New York, 1956-1957 Spiral member, 1963 Instructor, Brooklyn Museum Art School, 1963-1968 Art Students League, New York, 1965-1971 Instructor, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1971-1975 Professor, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, beginning 1977 Major Exhibitions: Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1955 Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, 1968 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1969 Newark Museum, New Jersey, 1971 Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 1978 Jerome Meadows Born Bronx, New York, 1951 B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1973 M.F.A., University of Maryland, College Park, 1981 Instructor, North Adams State College, Massachusetts, 1974-1975 Department Chair, Gallery Director, Baltimore School for the Arts, Maryland, 1982-1985 Assistant Professor, College of Fine Arts, Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1988-1992 Major Exhibitions: Public Sculptures: Carry the Rainbow on Your Shoulders, Unity Park, Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King Living Memorial, Anchorage, Alaska Truths that Rise from the Roots Remembered, African American Heritage Park, Alexandria, Virginia To Create the Beloved Community, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, Albuquerque, New Mexico William McNeil Born Los Angeles, 1967 B.A., University of Maryland, College Park, 1996 J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 1997 Major Exhibitions: The James McLaughlin Memorial Staff Show, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1994-1996 Sam Middleton Born New York, 1927 Studied at the Instituto Allende, Mexico, 1956 Currently lives and works in Amsterdam Major Exhibitions: Excelsior Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico, 1957 Gallery Silo, Madrid, Spain, 1960 Contemporary Arts, New York, 1962 South Yarra Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 1964 Muzik van nu, Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1966 Keith Morrison Born Jamaica, 1942 M.A., Art Institute of Chicago, 1965 Began teaching career that included positions at Fisk University, DePaul University, University of Illinois, University of Chicago, University of Maryland, Maryland Institute College of Art, and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1967 Relinquished Abstract Expressionist style for African and Caribbean figural themes, c. 1975 International Award for Painting, Organization for African Unity, Monrovia, Liberia, 1978 Major Exhibitions: Contemporary Visual Expressions, Anacostia Museum, Washington, D.C., 1987 Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Descent, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, 1989 New Jamaican Painting, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1997 Mary Lovelace O'Neal Born Jackson, Mississippi, 1942 B.F.A., Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1964 M.F.A., Columbia University, New York, 1969 Began teaching career that included positions at San Francisco Art Institute; University of California, Berkeley; California College of Arts and Crafts; and Humboldt State University, 1970 Began current career at University of California, Berkeley, 1979 Biennale Internationale des Arts Award, Dakar, Senegal, 1993-1994 Major Exhibitions: Introspectives: Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Descent, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, 1989 Museum of Asilah, Morocco, 1989 Mary Lovelace O'Neal: Paintings and Prints, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, 1990 Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Institute Chileno Norte Americano de Cultura, Santigo, Chile, 1991 No Justice, No Peace? Resolutions...., California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, 1993 Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California, 1995 James Phillips Born Brooklyn, New York, 1945 Philadelphia College of Art, 1964-1965 Artist-in-residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 1971-1972 Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1973-1977 Major Exhibitions: Weusi Numba Ya sanaa Gallery, New York, 1970 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1972 Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1972 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973 American Center, Tokyo, 1981 Kenkeleba House, New York, 1983 Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 1985 Stephanie Pogue Born Shelby, North Carolina, 1944 Syracuse University, New York, 1962-1963 B.F.A., Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1963-1966 M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1968 Assistant/Associate/Chair/Gallery director, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1968-1981 Professor/Chair, University of Maryland, College Park, 1981 to present Major Exhibitions: El Museo de Arte Moderna La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia, 1976 Cinque Gallery, New York, 1977 City Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, 1983 Centre d'Art de Rouge-Cloitre, Brussels, Belgium, 1988 Museo do Gravura, Curitiba, Brazil, 1991 Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1966 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1975 James V. Herring Art Gallery, Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1992 Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, 1996 P. H. Polk Born Bessemer, Alabama, 1898 Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 1916-1920 Correspondence course in photography, 1922 Apprenticed with Fred Jensen, Chicago, 1922-1926 Owned and operated a private portrait studio in Tuskegee, Alabama, 1927 Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 1928-1938 and 1933-1984 Owned and operated a private portrait studio in Atlanta, Georgia, 1938 Died 1984 Major Exhibitions: Art Institute of Pittsburgh, n.d. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1981 New York Museum of National History, n.d. Washington Gallery of Photography, n.d. Charles Ethan Porter Born Hartford, Connecticut, 1847 Began study at National Academy of Design, New York, 1869 Traveled to Europe, 1881-1884 Opened studio in Rockville, Connecticut, 1890 Became charter member of Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, 1910 Died 1923 Major Exhibitions: National Academy of Design, New York 1871, 1876, 1885 Vorce's Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut, 1889 Hartford Decorative Arts Society, Hartford, Connecticut, n.d. James A. Porter Born Baltimore, Maryland, 1905 B.A., Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1927 Institute of Art and Archeology, University of Paris, Certificat de Préséance, 1935 M.A., New York University, 1937 Head of Department of Art, Howard University, Washington, D.C., beginning in 1953 Died 1970 Major Exhibitions: Harmon Foundation, 1928 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1929 American Watercolor Society, 1932 Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1937, 1939, 1945, 1965 American Negro Exposition, Chicago, 1940 James A. Porter Gallery, 1970 James A. Porter, Artist and Historian: The Memory of the Legacy, Howard University Gallery of Art, 1993 Martin Puryear Born Washington, D.C., 1941 B.A., Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C., 1959-1963 Swedish Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, 1966-1968 M.F.A., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1969-1971 Teacher, Peace Corps, Sierra Leone, West Africa, 1964-1966 Assistant Professor of art, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1971-1973; University of Maryland, College Park, 1974-1978 Designer, SCAN, Scandinavia, 1968 Major Exhibitions: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1978 and 1985 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1979 and 1981 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1980 Art Institute of Chicago, 1991 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D. C., 1992 Ray Saunders Born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,1934 B.F.A., Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1960 M.F.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, 1961 Lives and works primarily in Oakland, California Major Exhibitions: Stephen Wirz Gallery, San Francisco, 1980 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, group exhibit, 1989 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia,1990 Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, group exhibit Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, group exhibit, 1995 Augusta Savage Born Green Cove Springs, Florida, 1892 Tallahassee State Normal School (now Florida A&M), 1915 Cooper Union, New York, 1921 Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, c. 1929 Founded Savage Studio of Arts and Crafts, New York, 1932 Assistant supervisor, Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project (FAP), beginning 1936 Commissioned portrait artist Died New York,1962 Major Exhibitions: Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, c. 1929 Argent Gallery, New York, 1932 Anderson Art Gallery, New York, 1932 Charles Sebree Born Kentucky, 1914 Studied at the Art Institute of Chicago WPA, Illinois, 1936-1938 Died 1985 Major Exhibitions: American Negro Exhibition, 1940 South Side Community Arts Center, Chicago, 1941 Institute of Modern Art, Boston, 1943 RoKo Gallery, New York, 1949 Retrospective Exhibition, Evans-Tibbs Collection, Washington, D.C., 1984 Frank Smith Born Chicago, 1939 B.F.A., University of Illinois, Chicago, 1958 Began teaching career in Chicago Public Schools, 1959 Began career at Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1970 Joined African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists (AfriCobra), 1970 M.F.A., Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1972 Diaspora-3 Award, Paramaraibo, Suriname, 1982 Major Exhibitions: Since the Harlem Renaissance: 50 Years of Afro-American Art, Bucknell Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1985 National Museum of Fine Arts, Kinshasa, Zaire, 1988 AfriCobra: The First Twenty Years, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia, 1990 Norman Parish Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1993 Japan Information and Cultural Center, Washington, D.C., 1995 Vincent Smith Born New York, 1929 Studied at Brooklyn Museum Art School, 1954-1956 M.E., Skowhegan School of Painting, Maine Empire State College, 1953-1956 Studied at State University of New York, Saratoga, 1980 Major Exhibitions: Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 1974 Portland Museum of Art, Maine, 1974 Cooper Square Gallery, New York, 1979 Journey to the Source, Spectrum IV Gallery, New Rochelle, New York, 1982 Spiral Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 1988 Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 1990 Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, 1990 Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1994 Gilda Snowden Born in Detroit, Michigan, 1954 B.F.A., Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 1977 M.A., Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 1978 M.F.A., Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, 1979 Continues to live and work in Detroit Major Exhibitions: Signature Images, Detroit Institute of Arts, group exhibit, 1990 Detroit Institute of Arts, group exhibit, 1991 Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan, 1995 A Detroit Tradition: Collecting African American Art, Community Arts Gallery, Wayne State University, group exhibit, 1996 Frank Stewart Born Nashville, Tennessee, 1949 B.F.A., Cooper Union Instructor, State University of New York, Purchase, New York Instructor, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York Artist-in-residence, Kenkeleba House, New York, 1987 Associate Director, Contemporary American Artists Series, Inc. Major Exhibitions: Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1977 International Center of Photography, New York, 1979 Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 1979 Gallery 62, National Urban League, New York, 1980 Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, 1983 Kenkeleba House Gallery, New York, 1986 Lou Stovall Born Athens, Georgia, 1937 George Walter Vincent Smith Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1954-1956 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, 1956-1957 B.F.A., Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1965 Owner and operator of Workshop, Inc., founded in 1968 Major Exhibitions: The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., 1972 Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland, 1975 El Museo de Arte Moderna La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia, 1976 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1980 The American Embassy, Moscow, U.S.S.R., 1984 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992 Fondo Del Sol, Washington, D.C., 1996 Henry O. Tanner Born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1859 Entered the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1879 Moved to Paris, 1891 Included in World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, 1893 Died 1936 Major Exhibitions: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1880 National Academy of Design, New York, 1885 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 Salon, Paris, 1894 Art Institute of Chicago, 1908 Solo Exhibition, American Art Galleries, New York, 1908 Solo Exhibition, Thurber Art Galleries, Chicago, 1913 Solo Exhibition, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 1924 Two Centuries of Black American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976 Sharing Traditions: Five Black Artists in Nineteenth-Century America, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., 1985 Henry Ossawa Tanner, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1991 Bill Taylor Born Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1927 Washington Institute of Contemporary Art Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Major Exhibitions: Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., n.d. Atlanta University, Georgia, n.d. Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, n.d. Los Angeles County Museum, n.d. B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Washington, D.C., n.d. Alma Thomas Born Columbus, Georgia, 1896 B.S., Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1924 M.F.A., Columbia University, New York, 1934 American University, Washington, D.C., 1950-1960 Teacher, Shaw Junior High School, Washington, D.C., 1924-1960 Vice President, Barnett-Aden Gallery, Washington, D.C. Died 1978 Major Exhibitions: Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1966 Baltimore Museum, Maryland, 1970 State Armory, Wilmington, Delaware, 1971 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1972 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1972 Yvonne Edwards Tucker Born Chicago, 1941 B.F.A. Otis Art Institute (now Otis/Parson's School of Design), Los Angeles, 1968 M.F.A. Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1968 University of Miami, 1971-1972 Florida State University, 1979-1980 Assistant Professor, Miami-Dade Community College, South Campus, 1968-1973 Associate Professor, Florida A & M University, Tallahassee, since 1973 Co-founder, Harambee Council of Tallahassee Administrator and project director of folk and fine arts festivals annually from 1980-1990 Major Exhibitions: Contemporary Gallery of Fine Arts, Dallas, 1969 Micanopy Gallery of Fine Arts, Florida, 1972 Morgan State College, Baltimore, Maryland, 1975 Malcolm Brown Gallery, Shaker Heights, Ohio, 1981 Contemporary Art Center, Kansas City, Missouri, 1989 Florida State University, Tallahassee, 1991 James VanDerZee Born Massachusetts, 1886 Assistant Photographer, Gertz Department Store, Newark, New Jersey, 1915-1916 Owner, Guarantee Photos and GGG Photo Studio, Harlem, 1916-1968 Metropolitan Museum of Art Life Fellowship Award, 1970 President's Living Legacy Award, Washington, D.C., 1978 Honorary Doctorate, Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1983 Died 1983 Major Exhibitions: Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America 1900-1968, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1969 The Legacy of James VanDerZee: A Portrait of Black Americans, Alternative Center for International Arts, New York, 1979 VanDerZee Photographer: 1886-1983, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1993 Laura Wheeler Waring Born Hartford, Connecticut, 1887 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1907-1910 Harvard University Summer School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1918 Columbia University Summer School, New York, 1920 Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, 1924-1925 Instructor, Art Department, Cheyney State Teachers College, Cheyney, Pennsylvania, 1906-1925 Director, Art Department, Cheyney State Teachers College, Cheyney, Pennsylvania, 1925-1948 Died 1948 Major Exhibitions: Galerie du Luxembourg, Paris, 1929 Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1940, 1949 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1944, 1997 Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1945 Newark Museum, New Jersey, 1989 James Lesesne Wells Born Atlanta, Georgia, 1902 Moved to Harlem, New York, 1919 National Academy of Design, New York, 1924 Columbia University Teachers College, 1924-1928 Instructor of design, Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1929 Summer in Paris, 1937 Retired from Howard University as Professor Emeritus, 1969 Traveled to Africa, 1969 Died 1993 Major Exhibitions: Paintings and Prints by James L. Wells, Carl Van Vechten Gallery of Art, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1972/1973 James L. Wells: Retrospective of Prints and Paintings, Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1977 James Lesesne Wells: Sixty Years in Art, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1986 Charles White Born Chicago, 1918 Art Institute of Chicago, 1937 Art Students League, New York Taller de Gràfica Popular, Mexico Teacher, South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, 1939-1940 Artist-in-residence, Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1945 Teacher, Otis Art Institute (now Otis/Parson's School of Design), Los Angeles, until 1979 Died 1979 Major Exhibitions: Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1939, 1967 Institute of Modern Art, Boston, 1943 First World Festival of Negro Arts, Dakar, Senegal, 1966 Pushkin Museum, Moscow, 1968 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1968 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1969 La Jolla Museum of Art, California, 1970 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971 Walter Williams Born Brooklyn, New York, 1920 Brooklyn Museum School, n.d. (post-World War II) Artist-in-residence, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1968-1969 Whitney Museum Fellowship, 1955 Obrig Prize of the National Academy of Design, New York, 1972 Major Exhibitions: RoKo Gallery, New York, 1954 Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 1982 William T. Williams Born Cross Creek, North Carolina, 1942 A.A.S., City University of New York, New York Community College, 1962 B.F.A., Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York,1966 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine 1965 M.F.A., Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1968 Professor/Instructor of art, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York,1970 School of Visual Arts, 1970 Professor of art, City University of New York, Brooklyn College, since 1971 Major Exhibitions: American Embassy, Moscow, 1969 Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1969 Foundation Maeght, St. Paul, France, 1970 Kolner Konstmarkt, Cologne, Germany, 1971 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1971 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, 1972 Contemporary Visual Expressions, Anacostia Museum, Washington, D.C., 1987 Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, 1991 Ellis Wilson Born Mayfield, Kentucky, 1899 Studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, early 1920s WPA, New York, 1930s Guggenheim Fellowship, 1944 Traveled to Haiti, 1950s Died 1977 Major Exhibitions: Retrospective Exhibition, Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, 1971 Hale Woodruff Born Cairo, Illinois, 1900 John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, c. 1918 Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts Académie Scandinavia, Paris Académie Moderne, Paris Worked on frescoes with Diego Rivera in Mexico, 1936 Professor, Atlanta University, Georgia, 1931-1945 Instructor/Professor Emeritus, New York University, 1947-1970 Initiated annual art shows for black artists, Atlanta University, Georgia, 1941 Died 1980 Major Exhibitions: Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1967 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1967 San Diego Art Museum, 1967 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967, 1976 Newark Museum, New Jersey, 1971 Bellevue Art Museum and the Art Museum Association of America, 1985 [TOP]