Research Guides: Black History Month: Art &amp; Artists

Black Art & Artists

During the week of February 14, we highlighted the art of Black American artists. Here are some of the books we featured. If you'd like to find more, use the instructions below to find books about Black art and artists in OneSearch.

Want more? Check out our Black Art & Artists reading list. You can also search for more books using the names of specific artists or art movements.

African American Art (Print Book) by Richard Powell and Virginia M. Mecklenburg
Publication Date: 2012
A beautifully illustrated survey of African American art of the twentieth century, including many never-before-seen works by the most important artists of the period. African American Art presents a powerful selection of paintings, sculpture, prints, and photographs by forty-three black artists who explored the African American experience of the twentieth century.
African American Masters (Print Book) by Gwen Everett
Publication Date: 2003
Accompanying the much-publicized exhibition of the same name that will be traveling throughout the nation over the next two years, this selection presents works from the renowned collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the nation's greatest repository of African American art. From Faith Ringgold's fabric interpretation of the Harlem Renaissance to Gordon Parks's celebrated 1996 photograph of Muhammad Ali, the paintings, sculptures, and photographs reproduced here--full-page and in color--reflect the rich and varied experience of African American artists in the 20th century.
Encyclopedia of African American Artists (Print Book) by dele jegede
Publication Date: 2009
From traditional media of painting and artists such as Horace Pippin and Faith Ringgold, to photography of Gordon Parks, and new media of Sam Gilliam and Martin Puryear (installation art), the African American experience is reflected across generations and works. Eight pages of color plates and black and white images throughout the book introduce both favorite and new artists to students and adult readers alike.
History of African-American Artists (Print Book) by Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson
Publication Date: 1993
A landmark work of art history: lavishly illustrated and extraordinary for its thoroughness, A History of African-American Artists -- conceived, researched, and written by the great American artist Romare Bearden with journalist Harry Henderson, who completed the work after Bearden's death in 1988 -- gives a conspectus of African-American art from the late eighteenth century to the present. It examines the lives and careers of more than fifty signal African-American artists, and the relation of their work to prevailing artistic, social, and political trends both in America and throughout the world.
My Soul Has Grown Deep (Print Book) by Randall R. Griffey, Amelia Peck, Darryl Pinckney, and Cheryl Finley
Publication Date: 2018
A new consideration of extraordinary art created by Black artists during the mid-20th century, My Soul Has Grown Deep considers the art-historical significance of contemporary Black artists working throughout the southeastern United States. These paintings, drawings, mixed-media compositions, sculptures, and textiles include pieces ranging from the profound assemblages of Thornton Dial to the renowned quilts of Gee's Bend.
Reflections in Black (Print Book) by Deborah Willis
Publication Date: 2000
Reflections in Black, the first comprehensive history of black photographers, is Deborah Willis's long-awaited, groundbreaking assemblage of photographs of African American life from 1840 to the present. Willis, a curator of photography at the Smithsonian Institution, has selected nearly 600 stunning images that give us rich, hugely moving glimpses of black life, from slavery to the Great Migrations, from rare antebellum portraits to 1990s middle-class families.

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