Breaking racial barriers : African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection / preface by David C. Driskell ; introduction by Tuliza K. Fleming.
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TextPublication details: [Washington, D.C.] : San Francisco : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; Pomegranate Artbooks, c1997Description: 126 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 28 cmISBN: 0764903322Subject(s): Waring, Laura Wheeler, 1887-1948 -- Exhibitions | Reyneau, Betsy Graves -- Exhibitions | Brady, Mary Beattie -- Exhibitions | Harmon Foundation, inc. -- Art patronage -- Exhibitions | National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) -- Exhibitions | African Americans -- Biography -- Exhibitions | African Americans -- Portraits -- Exhibitions | African Americans in art -- Portraits| Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Martha's Vineyard High School Library | 920/AFR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844300075815 |
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"An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, January 31 to September 14, 1997"--T.p. verso.
This catalogue [is] a partial reconstruction of the Harmon Foundation's original exhibition mounted at the Smithsonian Institution in 1944. It reproduces all forty-one of the portraits given to the National Portrait Gallery when the Harmon Foundation dissolved in 1967. The "Special Exhibition of Portraits of Leading American Negro Citizens" was held May 2, through May 28, 1944.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 124).
Mary Beattie Brady: remembering the legacy / by David C. Driskell -- Breaking racial barriers / by Tuliza K. Fleming -- Catalogue -- Original exhibition venues, 1944-1954.
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