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Common Wealth Art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Item Number
- 201
- Estimated Value
- 50 USD
- Opening Bid
- 10 USD
Item Description
Common Wealth Art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Edited with text by Lowery Stokes Sims.
Text by Dennis Carr, Janet L. Comey, Elliot Bostwick Davis, Aiden Faust, Nonie Gadsden, Edmund Barry Gaither, Karen Haas, Erica E. Hirshler, Kelly Hays L'Ecuyer, Taylor L. Poulin, Karen Quinn.
This generously illustrated volume gathers more than 100 works of art in a variety of media by leading figures from the nineteenth century to the present, among them - Henry Ossawa Tanner, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Lois Mailou Jones, Gordon Parks, Wifredo Lam, Kara Walker, Glenn Ligon and Kerry James Marshall - alongside many others who deserve to be better known, including artists from the African diaspora in South America and the Caribbean.
Arranged thematically and featuring authoritative texts that provide historical and interpretive context, Common Wealth invites readers to share in a rich outpouring of art that meets shared challenges with individual creative responses.
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