Foreword : The Social and Cultural Consciousness of Collecting and Exhibiting African American Visual Art / by Jonathan Green -- Acknowledgments -- A Historical Narrative of African American Patronage of the Arts through the Lens of the John and Vivian Hewitt Collection / by Grace C. Stanislaus -- The John and Vivian Hewitt Collection of African American Art -- A Passion for Collecting : The John and Vivian Hewitt Story -- Collectors' Perspectives. Dr. Walter O. and Mrs. Linda Evans -- Dr. Harmon and Mrs. Harriet Kelley -- Nancy Washington -- The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture and the John and Vivian Hewitt Collection of African American Art / by David R. Taylor.
Summary:
"The John and Vivian Hewitt Collection of African-American Art represents works that celebrate the expression and passion of twenty artists, including Romare Bearden, Margaret Burroughs, Jonathan Green, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, Ann Tanksley, and Henry Ossawa Tanner. This book contains all fifty-eight works from the collection, exquisitely reproduced in full color. Grace C. Stanislaus provides a text on the significance of the collection that is supplemented by interviews with Vivian Hewitt, David Taylor of the Gantt Center, art collectors Harmon and Harriett Kelley, and Nancy Washington"-- Provided by publisher.
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