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Author:

Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois, 1968-

Title:

Portraits of a people : picturing African Americans in the nineteenth century / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw ; contributions by Emily K. Shubert.

Publisher:

In association with University of Washington Press,
In association with University of Washington Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

183 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Exhibitions.--Exhibitions.
Portraits, American--19th century--Exhibitions.
Art, American--19th century.--Exhibitions.

Other Authors:

Shubert, Emily K.
Addison Gallery of American Art.
Delaware Art Museum.
Long Beach Museum of Art.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, 14 January-26 March 2006; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, 21 April-17 July 2006 and the Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California 25 August-26 November 2006. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Negro Portraits -- Signifying Enslavement and Portraying People -- "On deathless glories fix thine ardent view": Scipio Moorhead, Phillis Wheatley, and the Mythic Origins of Anglo-African Portraiture in New England -- "Moses Williams, Cutter of Profiles": Silhouettes and African American Identity in the Early Republic -- Portraits of a People.

Series:

Jacob Lawrence series on American artists

ISBN:

9780295985718
9780295985718 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0295985712 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61204391

LCCN:

2005022144

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)