BETTY BLAYTON/ARTIST
BIOGRAPHY, EXHIBITIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
2001 Creston Avenue, Bronx, NY 10453
(718) 716-6266
E-Mail: bblaytontaylor@aol.com
Web Site: http://www.bettyblaytonartist.com
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Born: 1937, Williamsburg, Virginia
Education:
1964-70: Brooklyn Museum School with Sculptor Minoria Nizuma
1960-62: The Art Student League with Arnold Prince;
1961: City College of New York, summer, Educational Psychology and other Ed. Courses;
1959: Graduated from Syracuse University, Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Significant Critics’ statements:
John Canady of the New York Times in April 1971, described Betty Blayton’s work as… “expert, delicately colored abstractions.”
“I immediately responded to Betty Blayton’s non-ethnic paintings. Ms. Blayton is represented by four small round abstractions. Her
work has a haunting oriental quality. Is she Japanese, Eskimo or black? Betty Blayton is simply a good artist who happens to be
black.” – Charles Wright, “Paint Art Racist” The Village Voice, April 15,1971
"Blayton's artwork is coded in the metaphysical. The sphere included in many of her works refers to wholeness, the relationship
between man and nature in the most ultimate sense. Thus her works serve as a gateway to higher spiritual levels." Crystal A. Britton,
African-American Art: The Long Struggle (New York Todtri Book Publishers, 1996)
Major Collections
Blayton has established a distinguished career as an exhibiting artist nationally and internationally. Her works are represented in such
collections as: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Prints. The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Robert Blackburn Printmaking
Workshop, Uniworld Advertising Corporation, Phillip Morris Corporation, Fisk University, Spellman College, Virginia State College,
Tugaloo College, Sidney Poitier , David Rockefeller, Blanchette Rockefeller, Reginald Lewis, Byron Lewis, Bettina Hunter and Evelyn
Cunningham. (Partial listing)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
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ST. THOMAS (Virgin Islands). St. Thomas Gallery.
BETTY BLAYTON.
1960.
Solo exhibition.
Atlanta (GA). Adair Gallery.
BETTY BLAYTON.
1963.
Solo exhibition.
New York (NY). Capricorn Gallery.
BETTY BLAYTON.
May 4-20, 1966.
Solo exhibition invitation, illus., artist photo, brief biog. [NMAA VF]
New York (NY). Capricorn Gallery.
BETTY BLAYTON.
1966.
Solo exhibition.
Atlanta (GA). Spelman College, Atlanta University Center.
BETTY BLAYTON TAYLOR.
January 9-31, 1974.
Exhib. cat., photo of artist on cover, biog., artist's statement. Stapled wraps.
New York (NY). The studio Museum in Harlem
BETTY BLAYTON – PRINTS, PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE
March 31, through May 12, 1974
(Announced as:
“Two One man Shows
Tonnie Jones - Sculpture
Betty Blayton – Prints, Paintings And Sculpture”)
New York (NY). Caravan House Gallery
New York City
April 1975
Solo exhibition.
Nashville (TN). Van Vechten Gallery, Fisk University.
Paintings and Prints by BETTY BLAYTON.
March 29-April 24, 1979.
Unpag. (6 pp.) exhib. cat., 2 b&w illus. 8vo (23 cm.), stapled wraps. Ed. of 750.
Chicago (IL). Isobel Neal Gallery.
BETTY BLAYTON.
1990.
Solo exhibition.
SYRACUSE (NY). Syracuse University's Luben House Gallery
1993
BETTY BLAYTON.
Solo exhibition.
New York (NY). Pace College.
BETTY BLAYTON.
1994.
Solo exhibition.
New York (NY) Canvass Paper and Stone Gallery
BETTY BLAYTON: “So It Is With Us” (Multi-Gallery Exhibit)
2008
Solo exhibition.
New York (NY) Essie Green Gallery
BETTY BLAYTON: “So It Is With Us” (Multi-Gallery Exhibit)
2008
Solo exhibition.
New York (NY) Strivers Gardens Gallery Present:
BETTY BLAYTON: “So It Is With Us” (Multi-Gallery Exhibit)
2008
Solo exhibition.
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
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NEW YORK (NY). Lever House Gallery.
Point / Counterpoint.
1967.
Group exhibition; included 30 Contemporary Black Artist. Included: Betty Blayton, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Earl Miller, Mahler
Ryder, Jack White.
NEW YORK (NY). American Greetings Gallery.
New Voices: 15 New York Artists.
March 12-May 3, 1968.
Group exhibition. Included Benny Andrews, Betty Blayton, Emilio Cruz, Avel DeKnight, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Tom Lloyd, Earl
Miller, Mahler Ryder, et al. [Co-sponsored by Studio Museum in Harlem.]
NEW YORK (NY). Capricorn Gallery.
Betty Blayton, Freda Mulcahy, Nathalie Van Buren.
September 10-28, 1968.
Three woman exhibition. Announcement card (illus.) and press release. [NMAA VF]
MINNEAPOLIS (MN). Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
30 Contemporary Black Artists.
October 17-November 24, 1968.
Unpag. (20 pp), 2 b&w illus., list of artists with brief biog and checklist of 53 works (several works for each artist.) Intro. by Roger
Mandle. A significant traveling show mounted with the assistance of Ruder & Finn. Includes: Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Romare
Bearden, Betty Blayton, Peter Bradley, Floyd Coleman, Emilio Cruz, Avel DeKnight, Melvin Edwards, Reginald Gammon, Sam
Gilliam, Robert Gordon, Marvin Harden, Felrath Hines, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Richard Hunt, Daniel Larue Johnson, Jacob
Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Tom Lloyd, William Majors, Richard Mayhew, Earl Miller, Robert Reid, Mahler B. Ryder, Betye Saar,
Raymond Saunders, Thomas Albert Sills, Jack White, Ed Wilson. (Note the list of artists in the traveling show seems to have been
somewhat different. In Houston Contemporary Art Museum (January 20-February 16, 1970) several artists were added: George
Carter. Cliff Joseph, James Denmark, Hughie Lee-Smith; others seem to have been omitted: Melvin Edwards, D.L. Johnson, Mahler
B. Ryder. Small sq. 4to, stapled wraps. First ed.
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NEW YORK (NY). Brooklyn College.
Afro-American Artists Since 1950.
April 15-May 18, 1969.
28 pp. exhib. cat., 21 b&w illus. and brief biog for each artist, cover by Romare Bearden. Includes 20 artists: Benny Andrews,
Malcom Bailey, Betty Blayton, David Scott Brown, Vivian Browne, Floyd Coleman, Calvin Douglass, Reginald Gammon, Richard
Hunt, Alvin Loving, Geraldine McCullough, Earl Miller, John Rhoden, Raymond Saunders, Thomas Sills, Alvin Smith, Vincent D.
Smith, Bob Thompson, Russ Thompson, William T. Williams. 8vo (8.9 x 7.1 in.), wraps. First ed.
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PROVIDENCE (RI). Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design.
Contemporary Black Artists.
July 1-31, 1969.
Unpag. (40 pp.), 33 b&w illus., checklist of 52 works, brief biogs., exhibs., colls., and exhib. checklist for each of the 34 artists.
Introductions by Nina Kaiden Wright and Caroline S. Lerner. Includes: Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Betty
Blayton, Peter A. Bradley, George C. Carter, Floyd Coleman, Emilio Cruz, James Denmark, Avel DeKnight, Melvin Edwards,
Reginald Gammon, Sam Gilliam, Robert Gordon, Marvin Harden, Felrath Hines, Al Hollingsworth, Richard Hunt, Cliff Joseph, Jacob
Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Tom Lloyd, Richard Mayhew, Earl Miller, Robert Reid, Mahler B. Ryder, Betye Saar,
Ray Saunders, Thomas Albert Sills, Russ Thompson, Lloyd Toone, Jack White, Ed Wilson. [A traveling exhibition that was very
similar to the traveling show entitled 30 Contemporary Black Artists, 1968-69, with several artists omitted and approx. six artists
added.) 4to (11 x 8.5 in.), stapled black wraps, white lettering front and back covers. First ed.
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PHILADELPHIA (PA). School District and Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center.
Afro-American Artists, 1800-1969.
December 5-29, 1969.
40 pp., list of over 100 artists. Important exhibition juried by Al Hollingsworth, Reginald Gammon and Louis Sloan. Intro. Randall J.
Craig mentions many artists not in the exhibition. Exhibition includes: Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Ralph Arnold, James Ayers,
Frederick Bacon, Joseph C. Bailey, Janette Banks, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Harry W. Bayton, Romare Bearden, Betty
Blayton, James Brantley, Arthur Britt, Charles E. Brown, Samuel J. Brown, Reginald Bryant, Barbara Bullock, Selma Burke, Calvin
Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Frederick Campbell, Barbara Chase-Riboud, LeRoy Clarke, Louise Clement, Eldzier Cortor, R. J. Craig,
Nicholas Davis, William Day, Avel DeKnight, J. Brooks Dendy, James Denmark, Reba Dickerson (a.k.a. Reba Dickerson-Hill),
Thomas Dickerson Jr., Robert Duncanson, Walter Edmonds, Cliff Eubanks Jr., Charlotte White Franklin, Allen Freelon, Reginald
Gammon, Charles W. Gavin, Ranson Z. Gaymon, Walter S. Gilliam, Marvin Hardin, Bernard Harmon, Palmer Hayden, Barkley
Hendricks, Alvin Hollingsworth, Humbert Howard, Alfonzo Hudson, Leroy Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William
H. Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Lois M. Jones, Cliff Joseph, Paul Keene, Columbus Knox, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith,
Edmonia Lewis, James Lewis, Norman Lewis, Tom Lloyd, Geraldine McCullough, Charles McGee, Thomas A. McKinney, Lloyd
McNeill, Juanita Miller, Robert C. Moore, Jimmie Mosely, Horace Pippin, James Porter, Simon D. Prioleau, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet,
Ed J. Purnell, Percy Ricks, Anita B. Riley, Faith Ringgold, Raymond Saunders, Charles Searles, Michael Shelton, Thomas Sills,
Simpson, Merton Simpson, Louis Sloan, Carl R. Smith, Dolphus Smith, Philippe Smith, Frank Stephens, Mary L. Stuckey, Eldridge
Suggs III, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mary Alice Taylor, Russ Thompson, Dox Thrash, Ellen Powell Tiberino, Lloyd Toone, John
Wade, Cranston Oliver Walker, Laura Wheeler Waring, Howard Watson, John Brantley Wilder, Earl A. Wilkie, Ed Wilson, Hale
Woodruff, Charles E. Yates, Hartwell Yeargans. 4to, wraps. First ed.
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NEW YORK (NY). Riverside Museum.
8 + 8 [Eight plus Eight].
1969.
28 pp., illus. Included Benny Andrews, Betty Blayton, Al Hollingsworth, Cliff Joseph, Mahler Ryder. Oblong 4to, wraps.
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GREENSBORO (NC). North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
15 Afro-American Women.
March 1-31, 1970.
Unpag. exhib. cat., illus., biogs., photos of artists. Includes: Betty Blayton, Lorraine Bolton, Edith Brown, Margaret Burroughs, Iris
Crump, Inge Hardison, Lois Jones, Eva Miller, Norma Morgan, Delilah Pierce, Faith Ringgold, Lucille (Malkia) Roberts, Ann
Tanksley, Alma Thomas, Barbara Zuber Wraps.
STATEN ISLAND (NY). Staten Island Museum.
Coalition 70.
March 8-April 19, 1970.
Exhib. cat. Text by Barry Lee Delaney. Includes: Al Hollingsworth, Betty Blayton, Romare Bearden, Norman Lewis, Richard
Mayhew, Reginald Gammon, Kirby DuVillier. 8vo, wraps.
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BOSTON (MA). Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists.
Afro-American Artists: New York and Boston.
May 19-June 23, 1970.
92 pp. exhib. cat, 67 b&w illus. of work by 69 artists, exhib. checklist. Intro. by Edmund B. Gaither. Important early exhibition.
Includes Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Ellsworth Ausby, Malcolm Bailey, Ellen Banks, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, Betty
Blayton, Ronald Boutte, Lynn Bowers, Frank Bowling, Marvin Brown, Calvin Burnett, Dana C. Chandler, John Chandler, Barbara
Chase-Riboud, Ed Clark, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Emilio Cruz, Avel DeKnight, Henry DeLeon, Stanley Pinckney, James
Denmark, Reginald Gammon, Felrath Hines, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Bill Howell, Zell Ingram, Gerald Jackson, Daniel L. Johnson,
Milton Johnson, Ben Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Tonnie O. Jones, Cliff Joseph, Harriet Kennedy, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis,
Tom Lloyd, Al Loving, Richard Mayhew, Edward McCluney, Jr., Algernon Miller, Joe Overstreet, Louise Parks, Stanley Pinckney,
Jerry Pinkney, John W. Rhoden, Bill Rivers, Mahler Ryder, Raymond Saunders, Thomas Sills, Al Smith, Vincent D. Smith, Richard
Stroud, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Lovett Thompson, Russ Thompson, Lloyd Toone, Luther Vann, Paul Waters, Richard
Waters, Jack White, Yvonne Williams, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Richard Yarde. Sq. 4to, pictorial self-wraps. First ed.
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NEW YORK (NY). Acts of Art, Inc.
Rebuttal to Whitney Museum Exhibition: Black Artists in Rebuttal at Acts of Art Gallery.
1971.
Unpag. (20 pp.) exhib. cat., 54 b&w illus., brief biogs. of 48 artists. The text consists of an unsigned foreword (probably by Nigel L.
Jackson, director of Acts of Art); a reprint of Z. D. Allen's review of the exhibition, "Rebuttal to the Whitney," from Chelsea Clinton
News (Apr. 15, 1971). The catalogue was published after the show opened. Artists included: Benny Andrews, James Belfon, Betty
Blayton, Lynn (Chuck) Bowers, Vivian Browne, Calvin Burnett, Jo Butler, Robert Carter, Art Coppedge, Adger Cowans, Joseph
Delaney, J. Brooks Dendy, III, James Denmark, Reginald Gammon, Moses Paul Groves, Lester Gunter, Byron Hall, William Charles
Henderson, II, Leon Hicks, Nigel L. Jackson, Kenneth Vrook Johnson, Cliff Joseph, Philip Martin, Kenneth Matthews, Richard
Mayhew, Dindga McCannon, Alexander S. McMath, Ademola Olugebefola, William Payne, James Phillips, Kenneth Radcliffe, Junius
Redwood, Enid Richardson, Gregory Ridley, Jr., Haywood (Bill) Rivers, Donald J. Robertson, Philippe G. Smith, Ann Tanksley, Bob
Thompson, Russell Thompson, Robert Threadgill, Lloyd Toone, Bennie White, Timothy Wilkins, Walter H. Williams, Ed Wilson,
Frank W. Wimberley, Hale Woodruff. Sq. 8vo, stapled tan wraps, lettered in brown, illus. of wire sculpture by James Denmark..
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CHICAGO (IL). Illinois Arts Council and Illinois Bell Lobby Gallery.
Black American Artists / 71.
1971-1972.
12 pp. catalogue of an important traveling exhibition circulated by the Illinois Arts Council and Illinois Bell; checklist of 136 works by
59 artists, 28 b&w illus., address list for many of the artists. Intro. and curated by Robert H. Glauber; statements by some of the
artists on the topic of being a Black artist in 1971. Ralph Arnold, Sam Gilliam, Russell T. Gordon, Joseph B. Ross Jr., and by Edward
K. Taylor (President of the Harlem Cultural Council.). Artists included in the exhibition: Benny Andrews, Ralph Arnold, Romare
Bearden, Cleveland Bellow, Betty Blayton, Lynn Bowers, Vivian Browne, Robert Carter, Bernie Casey, LeRoy Clarke, Floyd
Coleman, Dan Concholar, Dale Davis, Avel DeKnight, Richard Dempsey, David Driskell, Michael Esteves, Babatunde Folayemi, Sam
Gilliam, Russell T. Gordon, David Hammons, Ben Hazard, Bill Howell, Raymond Howell, Manuel Hughes, Richard Hunt, Tonnie
Jones, James DeWitt King, Jr., Jacob Lawrence, Leon Lank Leonard, Sr., Richard Mayhew, Geraldine McCullough, Charles McGee,
Allie McGhee, Algernon Miller, Arthur Monroe, Keith Morrison, Ademola Olugebefola, Joe Overstreet, William Pajaud, Stephanie
Pogue, Leslie Price, Noah Purifoy, Robert Reid, John T. Riddle, Gregory Ridley, Faith Ringgold, Joseph B. Ross, Jr., Raymond
Saunders, John T. Scott, Vincent Smith, Alma Thomas, Timothy Washington, Charles White, Stanley Whitney, Walter J. Williams,
Rip Woods, Kenneth Young, Milton Young. Exhibition venues included: Chicago, Springfield (IL), Valparaiso (IL), Peoria (IL),
Rockford (IL), Quincy (IL), University of Iowa Art Museum, Iowa City (IA), November 2, 1971-January 2, 1972.] 4to, stapled
wraps. Individuated covers printed for at least two locations.
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NEWARK (NJ). Newark Museum.
Black Artists: Two Generations.
May 13-September 6, 1971.
36 pp. exhib. catalogue listing 115 works by 59 artists (only 10 women artists included), 58 b&w illus. plus b&w cover design by
Dmitri Wright; addresses for approx. 30 artists. Text by Samuel C. Miller; poem by Paul Waters. Important record of one of the
major African American exhibitions of the early 70's. Includes: Charles Axt, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Betty Blayton,
Samuel Brown, Ernest Crichlow, Norma Criss, Allan Rohan Crite, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Beauford Delaney, Aaron Douglas, William
Edmondson, Barbara Fudge, John Fudge, James Green, Palmer Hayden, Eddie Holmes, Raymond Hunt, Bill Hutson, Zell Ingram,
Gerald Jackson, Bob James, Florian Jenkins, Wilmer Jennings, Ben Johnson, Jeanne Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent
Johnson, William H. Johnson, Ben Jones, Leon Jones, Robert Knight, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Edward Loper, Frank
Marshall, Marietta (Betty) Mayes, Gordon Mayes, Richard Mayhew, Don Miller, Julia Miller, Joe Overstreet, Horace Pippin, Rev.
Arthur Roach, Junius Redwood, Robert Reid, Haywood Bill Rivers, Bernard Sejourne, Christopher Shelton, Margaret Slade (Kelley),
George Smith, Vincent Smith, Thelma Johnson Streat, Dox Thrash, Paul Waters, Charles White, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff, and
Dmitiri Wright. Small 4to (26 cm.), pictorial stapled card wraps. First ed.
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ITHACA (NY). Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University.
Directions in Afro-American Art.
September 18-October 27, 1974.
75 pp., checklist of 126 works by 38 artists, most represented by 2 b&w illus. plus photo of artist, biog., exhibs., colls. and artists'
statements, bibliog. Text by Rosalind Jeffries. Important early survey. Co-sponsored by the Africana Studies and Research Center,
Cornell University. Artists include: Betty Blayton, Ellen Bond, Jacqueline Bontemps, Leroy Clarke, Melvin Davis, David Driskell,
Edward Grady, Sam Gilliam, Earl Hooks, Richard Hunt, Wadsworth Jarrell, Florian Jenkins, Nina Lovelace, Sam Middleton, Keith
Morrison, Anderson Pigatt, Stephanie Pogue, Martin Puryear, Robert Shields, Thomas Sills, Alma Thomas, Jack White (painter),
William T. Williams. 4to (31 cm.), wraps. Errata sheet laid in. Ed. of 3000.
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NASHVILLE (TN). Fisk University, Department of Art.
Amistad II: Afro-American Art.
1975.
92 pp. exhib. cat., 74 b&w illus., checklist of 79 works by 53 African American artists. Text by David C. Driskell, self-interview by
Allan M. Gordon, text on Amistad incident by Grant Spradling. Artists include: Benny Andrews, William Artis, Richmond Barthé,
Romare Bearden, Betty Blayton, Michael Borders, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, Henry O. Tanner, Claude Clark, Sr., Claude
Lockhart Clark, Eldzier Cortor, Allan Rohan Crite, Bing Davis, Philip Randolph Dotson, Aaron Douglas, John Dowell, David Driskell,
William Edmondson, Palmer Hayden, Earl Hooks, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William
H. Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Lawrence Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Ted Jones, David McDonald, Sam Middleton, Keith Morrison,
Archibald Motley, James Porter, Gregory Ridley, Raymond Saunders, Charles Sebree, Albert Alexander Smith, Vincent D. Smith, Bill
Taylor, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Walter Williams, William T. Williams, Ellis Wilson, and
others. 4to (29 cm.), wraps. First ed.
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COLLEGE PARK (PA). Pennsylvania State University.
Twenty Contemporary Printmakers.
1978.
Exhibition of prints from Bob Blackburn's workshop, assembled by Richard Mayhew. Includes 20 artists. Includes Emma Amos,
Benny Andrews, Camille Billops, Bob Blackburn, Betty Blayton, Vivian Browne, Ed Clark, Eldzier Cortor, Melvin Edwards, Richard
Hunt, Mohammed Omer Khalil, Norman Lewis, Richard Mayhew, Stephanie Pogue, Mavis Pusey, Vincent D. Smith, Sharon E.
Sutton, Benjamin L. Wigfall, John Wilson, Wendy Wilson. Exhibition flyer.
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HUNTSVILLE (AL). Huntsville Museum of Art.
Black Artists / South.
April 1-July 29, 1979.
64 pp., illus., bibliog. Dedicated to Aaron Douglas. One of the most substantial exhibitions of Black artists of the 70s, curated by
Ralph M. Hudson. 150 artists included: Charles H. Alston, Frederick C. Alston, Emma Amos, William Anderson, Benny Andrews,
Emmanuel V. Asihene, William E. Artis, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Herman Beasley, John T. Biggers, Betty Blayton,
Shirley Bolton, Arthur L. Britt, Sr., Wendell T. Brooks, Arthur Carraway, George Washington Carver, Yvonne Parks Catchings,
Elizabeth Catlett, Don Cincone, Claude Clark, Claude Lockhart Clark, Benny Cole, Tarrence Corbin, G. C. Coxe, Ernest Crichlow,
Ernest J. Davidson, Jr., Joseph Delaney, James Denmark, Murry N. Depillars, Hayward R. Dinsmore, Sr., Jeff R. Donaldson, Aaron
Douglas, David Driskell, William Edmondson, Marion Epting, Burford E. Evans, Minnie Evans, Elton Fax, Sam Gilliam, J. Eugene
Grigsby, Robert Hall, Phillip Hampton, Isaac Hathaway, Wilbur Haynie, Alfred Hinton, Fannie Holman, Earl J. Hooks, John W.
Howard, Jean Paul Hubbard, Ernestine Huff, James Huff, Clementine Hunter, A.B. Jackson, Wilmer Jennings, Bill Johnson, Harvey
L. Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, William H. Johnson, William E. Johnston, James Edward Jones, Lawrence A.
Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Ted Jones, Jack Jordan, James E. Kennedy, Virginia Jackson Kiah, Simmie L. Knox, Lawrence Compton
Kolawole, Jean Lacy, Larry Francis Lebby, Hughie Lee-Smith, Samella Lewis, Henri Linton, Oscar Logan, Jesse Lott, Nina Lovelace,
Edward McCluney, Jr., Phillip L. Mason, Steve Matthews, Grady Garfield Miles, Minnie Marianne Miles, Lev Mills, Clifford Mitchell,
Corinne Mitchell, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Jimmie Mosely, Jr., Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Otto Neals, Trudell Mimms Obey, Hayward
L. Oubré, John Outterbridge, Joe Overstreet, Roderick Owens, William Pajaud, Curtis Patterson, John Payne, Clifton Pearson,
Marion Perkins, Harper Phillips, Robert Pious, Stephanie Pogue, P.H. Polk, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Roscoe C. Reddix, Robert Reid,
Leon Renfro, John W. Rhoden, John T. Riddle, Jr., Gregory D. Ridley, Jr., Haywood Rivers, Arthur Rose, John T. Scott, Thomas
Sills, Carroll H. Simms, Jewel Woodard Simon, Merton D. Simpson, Van E. Slater, Maurice Strider, Clarence Talley, James Tanner,
Alma Thomas, Elaine F. Thomas, Bob Thompson, Mose Tolliver, Dox Thrash, Leo F. Twiggs, Harry Vital, Larry Walker, James W.
Washington, Jr., James Watkins, Clifton G. Webb, James Lesesne Wells, Amos White, Charles White, Jessie Whitehead, Claudia
Widdiss, Chester Williams, Walter J. Williams, William T. Williams, Ed Wilson, Ellis Wilson, Everett L. Winrow, Viola Wood, Hale
Woodruff, Doris Woodson, Charles A. Young, Kenneth Young, Milton Young. 4to (29 cm.), felt-covered wraps. First ed.
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NASHVILLE (TN). Van Vechten Gallery, Fisk University.
Directions in Afro-American Abstract Art.
October 17-November 17, 1982.
9 pp. exhib. cat., b&w illus. Curated with text by Jerry C. Waters. Artists included: Betty Blayton, Ellen Bond, Jacqueline
Bontemps, Melvin Davis, David Driskell, Edward Grady, Sam Gilliam, Earl J. Hooks, Richard Hunt, Adrienne Jenkins, Nina Lovelace,
Sam Middleton, Keith Morrison, Stephanie Pogue, Martin Puryear, Robert Shields, Thomas Sills, Alma Thomas, William T. Williams,
Viola Wood. 8vo (25 cm.), stapled wraps. First ed.
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NEW YORK (NY). Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Art in Print: A Tribute to Robert Blackburn.
November 30, 1984-January 18, 1985.
15 pp. exhib. cat., illus. Intro. Julia Hotten; commentaries by Romare Bearden, Emma Amos. Eldzier Cortor, A. J. Smith, Michael
Williams, Robin Holder, mentions Betty Blayton, Bill Hutson, Al Loving, Romare Bearden, Ed Clark, Benny Andrews, Vincent
Smith, Norman Lewis, John Wilson, Sharon Sutton, Mel Edwards. Exhib. checklist includes 30 artists: Charles Alston, Emma Amos,
Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Camille Billops, Willie Birch, Bob Blackburn, Betty Blayton, Vivian Browne, Ed Clark, Eldzier
Cortor, Adger Cowans, Ernest Crichlow, Melvin Edwards, Herbert Gentry, Charles Graham; Raymond Grist, Robin Holder, Bill
Hutson, Souleymane Keita, Norman Lewis, Richard Mayhew, Ademola Olugebefola, Pat Richardson, Albert Alexander Smith,
Virginia Evans-Smith, Shirley Stark, Benjamin Wigfall, Jack White, William T. Williams.
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ATLANTA (GA). Neighborhood Arts Center.
Graphic Art by Afro-American Artists: The Tougaloo Collection.
March 8-April 5, 1987.
Included: Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, John Biggers, Bob Blackburn, Camille Billops, Betty Blayton, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth
Catlett, Floyd Coleman, Eldzier Cortor [as Elzier], Ernest Crichlow, David Driskell, Thomas Eloby, Lawrence Jones, Edward
McCluney, Mavis Pusey, Raymond Saunders, Alvin Smith, William Taylor, Charles White, Walter Williams, Hale Woodruff.
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PHOENIX (AZ). Phoenix Opportunities Industrialization Center.
Artists of the Black Community/USA.
May 26-August 19, 1988.
Exhib. cat., bio and illus. for each artist. Statements by Robert L. Matthews, Eugene Grigsby Jr. and Gene C. Blue. Artists included:
Charles Alston, Edward Bannister, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Robert Blackburn, Betty Blayton, Elizabeth Catlett, Robert
Colescott, Vernelle DeSilva, Jeff Donaldson, Mel Edwards, Sam Gilliam, Richard Hunt, Paul Keene, Gwendolyn Knight, Jacob
Lawrence, Donald Locke, Richard Mayhew, John Outterbridge, Raymond Saunders, Kara Shepherd, Francis Sprout, Leo Twiggs,
George Welch, Charles White, Hale Woodruff, Rip Woods 4to, wraps.
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COLUMBIA (SC). Columbia Museum of Art.
Southern Women Artists.
September 2-November 11, 1990.
36 pp. exhib. cat., biogs., illus., checklist. Introduction by Lin Nelson-Mayson; text by Lisa Ray. Artists included: Emma Amos,
Trena Banks, basket maker Mary Jane Bennett, Betty Blayton-Taylor, Elizabeth Catlett, Maggie Manigault.
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Hartford (CT). CRT's Craftery Gallery.
Master Printmaker ROBERT BLACKBURN Exhibition.
October 29, 1995-March 30, 1996.
Exhibition invitation card lists a concurrent exhibition of works from the Bob Blackburn Workshop archives. Includes the following
black artists: Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Willie Birch, Betty Blayton, Vivian Browne, Elizabeth
Catlett, Melvin W. Clark, Ernest Crichlow, Mslabe Dumile-Feni, Melvin Edwards, Elton Fax, Herbert Gentry, Manuel Hughes, Robin
Holder, Margo Humphrey, Noah Jemison, Spencer Lawrence, Richard Mayhew, Otto Neals, Rudzani Nemasetoni, Laurie Ourlicht,
Aminah Robinson, Juan Sanchez, Vincent Smith, Tesfaye Tessema, Luther Vann, Richard Yarde, Charles White, Michael Kelly
Williams. Invitation card (7 x 5 in.,), glossy card stock, printed on both sides.
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NEW YORK (NY). Cinque Gallery
1997, 1998 and 2000
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NEW YORK (NY). National Arts Club.
Women Artists in Celebration of Lois Mailou Jones.
March 18-27, 1999.
24 pp. exhib. cat., 17 b&w illus., plus cover photo of Jones, brief biog. and small photo of each of the other 8 artists with artist's
personal statement about Lois Mailou Jones. Text and curated by Julia Hotton; afterword by David C. Driskell. Checklist of 14 works
by Lois Mailou Jones (mostly works from the collection of Dr. Beny Primm ), and works by Emma Amos, Camille Billops, Betty
Blayton, Nanette Carter, Catti, Rose Piper, Patricia Richardson, Virginia Evans Smit. A wonderful exhibition mounted as a
fundraiser for the Harlem Youth Development Foundation that came and went without any attention from the art world. 4to, wraps.
First ed. Opening invitation card laid in.
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NEW YORK (NY). UFA Gallery
2001
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ACCRA (GHANA). The National Museum.
NCA's International Conference Exhibition
2001
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NEW YORK (NY). Schomburg Library, Gallery
NCA, Masters Exhibition,
2001
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NEW YORK (NY). UFA Gallery.
Black Print Masters: Past and Present.
September 7-October 13, 2001.
Group exhibition of 15 artists including: Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Robert Blackburn, Betty Blayton, Elizabeth
Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Hayward Oubré, Wilmer Jennings, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Samella Lewis, Ann Tanksley, John
Wilson and Hale Woodruff.
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WASHINGTON (DC) Smithsonian
The Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Traveling Show
2004
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NEW YORK (NY) Parsons Aronson Galleries
African-American Women Artists
2004
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LANCASTER (PA). Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College.
Something to Look Forward To.
March 26-June 27, 2004.
viii, 60 pp. exhibition catalogue, color illus., bibliog. Curated by Bill Hutson; texts by April Kingsley, Franklin Sirmans, and Geoffrey
Jacques. An exhibition featuring abstract art by 22 American artists of African descent who have been exhibiting for three decades.
Includes: Betty Blayton, Frank Bowling, Yvonne Pickering Carter, Edward Clark, Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons,
Gerald Jackson, Lawrence Compton Kolawole, Alvin Loving, Richard Mayhew, Sam Middleton, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Joe
Overstreet, Howardena Pindell, Helen Evans Ramsaran, John T. Scott, Sylvia Snowden, the late Mildred Thompson, Jack Whitten,
William T. Williams, and Frank Wimberley. [Traveling exhibition. Other venues included Heckscher Museum, Long Island, NY;
California African-American Museum, Los Angeles; Lowe Museum, University of Miami; Beach Museum of Art, February 5-April 2,
2006). Sq. 8vo (26 cm.; 10 x 9.1 in.), wraps. First ed.
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NEW YORK (NY), Russ Berrie Medical Science Pavilion (Columbia University) and Countee Cullen Library/Gallery
Seeing Jazz: A Tribute to Master Artists & An Exhibition of Contemporary Artists
June - July 30 2004.
On exhibit are works by artists Romare Bearden, Benny Andrews, Richard Mayhew, Faith Ringgold, Max Ferguson, Al Loving,
Michael Singletary, Ademola Olugebefola, Verna Hart, Howardina Pindell, Michael Cummings, Ernani, Ann Tanksley, Betty Blayton
Taylor and Deceus in addition to photographers Chuck Stewart and Kwame Braithwaite.
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PHILADELPHIA (PA). Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
The Chemistry of Color: African American Artists in Philadelphia, 1970-1990. The Harold A. and Ann R. Sorgenti
Collection of Contemporary African-American Art.
January 11-April 10, 2005.
96 pp. exhib. cat., 60 color plates, bibliog., index, timeline integrating artistic achievements with local and national events. Text by
Kim Sajet, with foreword by Howardena Pindell. Exhibition of the Harold A. and Ann R. Sorgenti Collection of contemporary African
American art. Includes works by Benny Andrews, James Atkins, Romare Bearden, Camille Billops, Willie Birch, James Brantley, Moe
Brooker, Beverly Buchanan, Barbara Bullock, Calvin Burnett, Charles Burwell, Donald Camp, Syd Carpenter, Nanette Carter, Yvonne
Pickering Carter, Nannette Acker Clark, Gregory Coates, Adger W. Cowans, John E. Dowell, Jr., Allan L. Edmunds, Sam Gilliam,
Curlee Raven Holton, Edward Hughes, Richard Hunt, Jacob Lawrence, Earl B. Lewis, Alvin Loving, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, John
McDaniels, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, John E. Rozelle, Betty Saar, Raymond Saunders, Charles Searles, Andrew Turner,
Richard J. Watson, Stanley K. Whitney, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams, Gilberto Antonio Wilson. Numerous other artists
mentioned in passing: Ellsworth Ausby, Betty Blayton, Deryl Mackie, James Phillips, Horace Pippin, Martin Puryear, Mavis
Pusey, Louis Sloan, Bradley Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Hubert Taylor, Bob Thompson, Dox Thrash, Ellen Tiberino, Pheoris
West, et al. 4to (11.8 x 9 in.; 31 cm.), stiff self-wraps. First ed.
ATLANTA (GA). Hammonds House Museum.
Betty Blayton & Robin Holder: Daughters of the House of Life.
April 29-June 21, 2007.
Two person exhibition of paintings and prints.
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MONOGRAPHS:
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Carter, William.
An Interview with BETTY BLAYTON.
1985.
In Black American Literature Forum 19 (Spring 1985):32-33, iIlus., and quotes from artist.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
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HARLEY, RALPH L., JR.
Checklist of Afro-American Art and Artists.
1970.
In Serif 7 (December 1970):3-63. What could have been the foundation of future scholarship is unfortunately marred by errors of all
kinds and the inclusion of numerous white artists. All Black artists are cross-referenced.
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NEW YORK (NY). Seagrams Distillers.
Five [Film].
1972.
Color film featuring Romare Bearden, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Richard Hunt, Betty Blayton, and Charles White. [Cited in Charles
White Bibliography by Ernest Kaiser and Benjamin Horowitz, Freedomways 20, no. 3, 1980.] 16 mm. Film; 25 min. col., sd
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FINE, ELSA HONIG.
The Afro-American Artist: A Search for Identity.
New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1973.
x, 310 pp., 342 b&w illus., 38 color plates, bibliography and notes, index. Survey of work from the colonial period through the
1970's. Approx. 100 artists represented. An important reference work. Women artists included: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews,
Malcolm Bailey, Edward Bannister, Amiri Baraka, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Betty Blayton, Grafton Tyler Brown, Kay
Brown, Dana Chandler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Emilio Cruz, Thomas Day, Beauford Delaney,
Joseph Delaney, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, Robert M. Douglass, Jr., Robert S. Duncanson, Melvin Edwards, Frederick
Eversley, Allan Freelon, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Sam Gilliam, Henry Gudgell, David Hammons, Marvin Harden, William A.
Harper, Palmer Hayden, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Julien Hudson, Richard Hunt, Bill Hutson, Walter C. Jackson, Daniel Larue Johnson,
Malvin Gray Johnson, Marie Johnson, Milton Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Ben Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Cliff Joseph, Jacob
Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, James Lewis, Norman Lewis, Tom Lloyd, Al Loving, Richard Mayhew, Scipio
Moorhead, Norma Morgan, Archibald Motley, Joe Overstreet, Horace Pippin, Patrick Reason, Robert Reid, Gary Rickson, Faith
Ringgold, Raymond Saunders, William E. Scott, Christopher Shelton, Thomas Sills, Merton Simpson, William H. Simpson, Henry
Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Lovett Thompson, Charles White, William T. Williams, A. B. Wilson, Hale
Woodruff. Small, 4to, black cloth with silver lettering. First ed.
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SPRADLING, MARY MACE.
In Black and White: Afro-Americans in Print.
Kalamazoo: Kalamazoo Public Library, 1976.
430 pp. Includes: John H. Adams, Ron Adams, Alonzo Aden, Muhammad Ali, Baba Alabi Alinya, Charles Alston, Charlotte Amevor,
Benny Andrews, Ralph Arnold, William Artis, Ellsworth Ausby, Jacqueline Ayer, Calvin Bailey, Jene Ballentine, Casper Banjo, Henry
Bannarn, Edward Bannister, Ernie Barnes, Carolyn Plaskett Barrow, Richmond Barthé, Beatrice Bassette, Romare Bearden, Cleveland
Bellow, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Gloria Bohanon, Shirley Bolton, Charles Bonner, John Borican, David Bowser, David Bradford,
Edward Brandford, Brumsic Brandon, William Braxton, Arthur Britt Sr., Sylvester Britton, Elmer Brown, Fred Brown, Margery
Brown, Richard L. Brown, Samuel Brown, Vivian Browne, Juana Burke, Selma Burke, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Nathaniel
Bustion, Sheryle Butler, Elmer Simms Campbell, Edward Carr, Art Carraway, Catti, George Washington Carver, Yvonne Catchings,
Elizabeth Catlett, George Clark, J. Henrik Clarke, Floyd Coleman, Donald Coles, Paul Collins, Dan Concholar, Eldzier Cortor, Samuel
Countee, William Craft, Marva Cremer, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Crite, Doris Crudup, William Curtis, Mary Reed Daniel, Alonzo Davis,
Willis "Bing" Davis, Dale Davis, Juette Day, Thomas Day, Roy DeCarava, Paul DeCroom, Beauford Delaney, Murry DePillars,
Robert D'Hue, Kenneth Dickerson, Raymond Dobard, Vernon Dobard, Tamara Dobson, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, Robert
Douglass, Glanton Dowdell, David Driskell, Robert Duncanson, Eugenia Dunn, John Dunn, Adolphus Ealey, Eugene Eda, Annette
Ensley, Marion Epting, James Fairfax, Kenneth Falana, John Farrar, Elton Fax, Muriel Feelings, Tom Feelings, Frederick Flemister,
Curt Flood, Thomas Floyd, Doyle Foreman, Mozelle Forte, Amos Fortune, Meta Fuller, Perry Fuller, Ibibio Fundi, Alice Gafford,
West Gale, Reginald Gammon, Herbert Gentry, Jimmy Gibbez, Sam Gilliam, Robert Glover, Russell Gordon, Rex Goreleigh, Bernard
Goss, Donald Greene, Joseph Grey, Ron Griffin, Eugene Grigsby, Charles Haines, Clifford Hall, Wesley Hall, David Hammons,
James Hampton, Phillip Hampton, Lorraine Hansberry, Marvin Harden, Arthur Hardie, Inge Hardison, John Hardrick, Edwin
Harleston, William Harper, Gilbert Harris, James Harris, John Harris, Isaac Hathaway, Frank Hayden, Kitty Hayden, Palmer Hayden,
Vertis Hayes, Wilbur Haynie, Dion Henderson, Ernest Herbert, Leon Hicks, Hector Hill, Tony Hill, Geoffrey Holder, Al Hollingsworth,
Humbert Howard, James Hoard, Raymond Howell, Julien Hudson, Margo Humphrey, Thomas Hunster, Richard Hunt, Clementine
Hunter, Tanya Izanhour, Ambrose Jackson, May Jackson, Suzanne Jackson, Louise Jefferson, Ted Joans, Daniel Johnson, Lester
Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Marie Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Barbara Jones, Frederick D.
Jones Jr., James Arlington Jones, Lawrence Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Eddie Jack Jordan, Ronald Joseph, Lemuel Joyner, Paul
Keene, Elyse J. Kennart, Joseph Kersey, Gwendolyn Knight, Lawrence Compton Kolawole, Oliver LaGrone, Artis Lane, Doyle Lane,
Raymond Lark, Lewis H. Latimer, Jacob Lawrence, Clarence Lawson, Leon Leonard, Curtis Lewis, James Edward Lewis, Edmonia
Lewis, Norman Lewis, Samella Lewis, Henri Linton, Willie Longshore, Ed Love, Al Loving, Geraldine McCullough, Lawrence
McGaugh, Charles McGee, Donald McIlvaine, Harvey McLemore, James McMillan, William McNeil, Lloyd McNeill, David Mann,
William Marshall, Philip Mason, Winifred Mason, William Maxwell, Valerie Maynard, Yvonne Meo, Sam Middleton, Aaron Miller, Eva
Miller, Evangeline Montgomery, Ron Moore, Scipio Moorhead, Norma Morgan, Ken Morris, Calvin Morrison, Jimmie Mosely, Leo
Moss, Archibald Motley, Hugh Mulzac, Frank Neal, George Neal, Shirley Nero, Nommo, George Norman, Georg Olden, Ademola
Olugebefola, Conora O'Neal (fashion designer), Cora O'Neal, Lula O'Neal, Pearl O'Neal, Ron O'Neal, Hayward Oubré, John
Outterbridge, Alvin Paige, Robert Paige, William Pajaud, Denise Palm, Norman Parish, Jules Parker, James Parks, Edgar Patience,
Angela Perkins, Marion Perkins, Michael Perry, Jacqueline Peters, Douglas Phillips, Harper Phillips, Delilah Pierce, Howardena
Pindell, Horace Pippin, Julie Ponceau, James Porter, Leslie Price, Nancy Prophet, Noah Purifoy, Otis Rathel, Patrick Reason, William
Reid, John Rhoden, Barbara Chase-Riboud, William Richmond, Gary Rickson, John Riddle, Gregory Ridley, Faith Ringgold, Malkia
Roberts, Brenda Rogers, Charles Rogers, George Rogers, Arthur Rose, Nancy Rowland, Winfred Russell, Betye Saar, Marion
Sampler, John Sanders, Raymond Saunders, Augusta Savage, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Thomas Sills, Carroll Simms, Jewel
Simon, Walter Simon, Merton Simpson, William H. Simpson, Louis Slaughter, Gwen Small, Albert A. Smith, Alvin Smith, Hughie
Lee-Smith, John Henry Smith, Jacob Lawrence, John Steptoe, Henry O. Tanner, Ralph Tate, Betty Blayton-Taylor, Della Taylor,
Bernita Temple, Herbert Temple, Alma Thomas, Carolyn Thompson, Mozelle Thompson, Robert Thompson, John Torres, Nat
Turner, Leo Twiggs, Bernard Upshur, Royce Vaughn, Ruth Waddy, Anthony Walker, Earl Walker, Larry Walker, William Walker,
Daniel Warburg, Eugene Warburg, Carole Ward, Laura Waring, James Watkins, Lawrence Watson, Edward Webster, Robert Weil,
James Wells, Sarah West, John Weston, Delores Wharton, Charles White, Garrett Whyte, Douglas R. Williams, Walter Williams, Ellis
Wilson, John Wilson, Stanley Wilson, Vincent Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Bernard Wright, Charles Young, Milton Young. [Note the 3rd
edition consists of two volumes published by Gale Research in 1980, with a third supplemental volume issued in 1985.] Large stout
4tos, cloth. 2nd revised expanded edition.
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GRIGSBY, J. EUGENE.
Art and Ethnics.
1977.
Illus. Includes: Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, William Artis, Malcolm Bailey, Mike Bannarn, Edward M. Bannister,
Richmond Barthe, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Bob Blackburn, Betty Blayton, Selma Burke, George Washington Carver,
Elizabeth Catlett, Dana Chandler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Dan R. Concholar, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Dale Brockman Davis,
Beauford Delaney, James T. Diggs, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, Robert S. Duncanson, William M. Farrow, Perry Ferguson,
Elton Fax, Doyle Foreman, Meta Vaux Fuller, Reginald Gammon, Sam Gilliam, Joseph W. Gilliard, Manuel Gomez, Rex Goreleigh,
Ethel Guest, Edwin A Harleston, Palmer Hayden, Esther P. Hill, Felrath Hines, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Richard, Hunt, Bob Jefferson,
et al.
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BONTEMPS, ARNA, ed.
Forever Free: Art by African-American Women 1862-1980.
Hampton: Hampton University and Stephenson Inc., Alexandria, VA, 1980.
214 pp. exhib. cat., 44 color plates, 4 b&w illus., plus b&w thumbnail photos of artists, checklist of 118 works, biogs., bibliogs.,
colls, exhibs. for each artist. Intro. David Driskell; intro. by Roslyn A. Walker, book-length text by Arna Bontemps and Jacqueline
Fonvielle-Bontemps; afterword by Keith Morrison; biogs. by Alan M. Gordon (often with quotes from the artists.) Artists include:
Rose Auld, Camille Billops, Betty Blayton, Vivian Browne, Selma Burke, Margaret Burroughs, Yvonne Catchings, Elizabeth Catlett,
Catti, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Minnie Evans, Meta Fuller, Ethel Guest, Maren Hassinger, Adrienne Hoard, Varnette Honeywood,
Margo Humphrey, Clementine Hunter, Suzanne Jackson, Marie Johnson-Calloway, Lois Mailou Jones, Vivian Key, Edmonia Lewis,
Geraldine McCullough, Victoria Susan Meek, Eva Hamlin-Miller, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Winnie Owens, Delilah Pierce, Georgette
Powell, Nancy Prophet, Helen Ramsaran, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Augusta Savage, Sylvia Snowden, Shirley Stark, Ann Tanksley,
Alma Thomas, Mildred Thompson, Yvonne Tucker, Annie Walker, Laura Waring, Deborah Wilkins, Viola Wood, Shirley Woodson,
Estella Wright, Barbara Zuber. [Review by Susan Willand Worteck, Feminist Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1. (Spring, 1982):97-108.] Large
4to, cloth, pictorial d.j. First ed.
CATTELL, JACQUES, ed.
Who's Who in American Art 16.
New York: Bowker, 1984.
Curators who are not also artists are included in this bibliographic entry but are not otherwise listed in the database: p. 21, Benny
Andrews, 33, Ellsworth Ausby, 50, Richmond Barthé; 57, Romare Bearden, 76, John Biggers, 83, Betty Blayton, 98, Frank
Bowling, 108, Arthur Britt, 112, Wendell Brooks, 116, Marvin Brown, 117-18, Vivian Browne, 121, Linda Goode Bryant, 128, Calvin
Burnett, 129, Margaret Burroughs, 132, Carole Byard, 133, Walter Cade, 148, Yvonne Pickering Carter, 168, Claude Clark, 178-79,
Floyd Coleman, 179, Robert Colescott; 181, Paul Collins, 184, James Conlon, 188-89, Arthur Coppedge; 191, Eldzier Cortor, Averille
Costley-Jacobs, 198, Allan Crite; 210, D'Ashnash-Tosi [Barbara Chase-Riboud], 213-14, Alonzo Davis, 219-20, Roy DeCarava, 222,
Avel DeKnight, 226, Richard Dempsey; 228, Murry DePillars, 237, Raymond Dobard, 239, Jeff Donaldson, 243, John Dowell, 246,
David Driskell, 256, Allan Edmunds, 256-57, James Edwards, 260, David Elder, 265, Whitney John Engeran; 267, Marion Epting;
270, Burford Evans, 271, Minnie Evans, 271-72, Frederick Eversley, 277, Elton Fax, 304, Charlotte Franklin, 315, Edmund Barry
Gaither (curator); 317, Reginald Gammon; 325, Herbert Gentry; 326, Joseph Geran; 328, Henri Ghent (curator); 332, Sam Gilliam,
346, Russell Gordon; 354, Rex Goreleigh, 361, Eugene Grigsby; 375, Robert Hall; 380, Leslie King-Hammond (curator); 381, Grace
Hampton, 385, Marvin Harden, 406, Barkley Hendricks, 418, Leon Hicks, 414, Freida High-Wasikhongo, 424-25, Al Hollingsworth,
428, Earl Hooks, 433, Humbert Howard, 439, Richard Hunt, 450, A. B. Jackson, Oliver Jackson; 451, Suzanne Jackson, 454, Catti
James, Frederick James, 464, Lester L. Johnson; 467, Ben Jones; 467-68, Calvin Jones, 469, James Edward Jones, Lois Jones; 471,
Theodore Jones; 489, Paul Keene; 492, James Kennedy; 495-96, Virginia Kiah; 535, Raymond Lark, 540-41, Jacob Lawrence, 546,
Hughie Lee-Smith, 557, Samella Lewis, 586, Cheryl Ilene McClenney, 595, Anderson Macklin, 620, Philip Lindsay Mason, 625,
Richard Mayhew; 597, Oscar McNary; 598, Kynaston McShine (curator); 610, 637, Marianne Miles a.k.a. Marianne; 638, Earl
Miller; 640-41, Lev Mills; 649, Evangeline Montgomery; 653, Norma Morgan; 655, Keith Morrison; 657, Dewey Mosby (curator);
671, Otto Neals; 693, Ademola Olugebefola; 700, Hayward Oubré, John Outterbridge, Wallace Owens; 702, William Pajaud; 706,
James Parks; 710, Curtis Patterson; 711, Sharon Patton (curator); 711-12, John Payne; 720, Regenia Perry (curator) 724, Bertrand
Phillips; 727, Delilah Pierce; 728, Vergniaud Pierre-Noël; 729, Stanley Pinckney, Howardena Pindell; 744, Leslie Price, Arnold Prince;
747, Mavis Pusey; 752, Bob Ragland; 759, Roscoe Reddix; 763, Robert Reid; 768, John Rhoden; 772, John Riddle, Gregory Ridley;
774, Faith Ringgold, 778, Lucille Roberts, 803, Mahler Ryder, 804, Betye Saar, 815, Raymond Saunders, 834, John Scott; 841,
James Sepyo, 857, Thomas Sills, 859, Jewel Simon; 861, Merton Simpson, Lowery Sims (curator); 865, Van Slater; 869, Dolph
Smith; 873, Vincent Smith, 886, Francis Sprout, 890-91, Shirley Stark, 898, Nelson Stevens, 920, Luther Stovall, 909, Robert Stull,
920, Ann Tanksley, James Tanner; 924, Rod Taylor; 922, William Bradley Taylor [Bill Taylor], 929, Elaine Thomas; 946, Curtis
Tucker, 949, Leo Twiggs; 970, Larry Walker; 977, James Washington; 979, Howard Watson, 994, Amos White; 995, Franklin
White; 996 Tim Whiten, 1001-2, Chester Williams, 1003, Randolph Williams, Todd Williams, Walter Williams, William T. Williams,
1005, Edward Wilson, George Wilson, 1005-6, John Wilson; 1007, Frank Wimberley; 1016, Rip Woods, 1017, Shirley Woodson,
1019, Bernard Wright, 1025, Charles Young; 1026, Kenneth Young, Milton Young.
ROBERTSON, JACK.
Twentieth-Century Artists on Art. An Index to Artists' Writings, Statements, and Interviews.
Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985.
Useful reference work; includes numerous African American artists: Ron Adams, Charles Alston, Charlotte Amevor, Benny Andrews,
Dorothy Atkins, Casper Banjo, Ellen Banks, Romare Bearden, Ed Bereal, Arthur Berry, John Biggers, Betty Blayton, Gloria
Bohanon, Shirley Bolton, David Bradford, Arthur Britt, Frederick Brown, Kay Brown, Winifred Brown, Vivian Browne, Calvin
Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Cecil Burton, Sheryle Butler, Carole Byard, Arthur Carraway, Bernie Casey, Yvonne Catchings,
Mitchell Caton, Elizabeth Catlett, Dana Chandler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Claude Clark Jr., Irene Clark, Donald Coles, Robert
Colescott, Dan Concholar, Eldzier Cortor, Marva Cremer, Doris Crudup, Dewey Crumpler, Emilio Cruz, Samuel Curtis, William
Curtis, Alonzo Davis, Bing Davis, Dale Davis, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Brooks Dendy, Murry DePillars, Robert D'Hue,
Kenneth Dickerson, Leo Dillon, Aaron Douglas, Emory Douglas, David Driskell, Eugenia Dunn, Annette Ensley, Eugene Eda, Melvin
Edwards, Marion Epting, Minnie Evans, Frederick Eversley, Tom Feelings, Mikele Fletcher, Moses O. Fowowe, Miriam Francis,
Ibibio Fundi, Alice Gafford, West Gale, Joseph Geran, Sam Gilliam, Robert Glover, Wilhelmina Godfrey, Rex Goreleigh, Robert H.
Green, Donald O. Greene, Ron Griffin, Eugene Grigsby. Horathel Hall, Wes Hall, David Hammons, Philip Hampton, Marvin Harden,
John T. Harris, William Harris, Kitty Hayden, Ben Hazard, Napoleon Jones-Henderson (as Henderson), William H. Henderson, Ernest
Herbert, Leon Hicks, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Alfred Hinton, Al Hollingswoth, Earl Hooks, Raymond Howell, Margo Humphrey,
Richard Hunt, Bill Hutson, Suzanne Jackson, Walter Jackson, Rosalind Jeffries, Marie Johnson, Ben Jones, Laura Jones, Lois Jones,
Jack Jordan, Cliff Joseph, Gwendolyn Knight, Larry Compton Kolawole, Raymond Lark, Jacob Lawrence, Flora Lewis, James E.
Lewis, Norman Lewis, Samella Lewis, Tom Lloyd, Juan Logan, Willie Longshore, Ed Love, Al Loving, Philip Mason, Richard
Mayhew, Valerie Maynard, Karl McIntosh, William McNeil, Yvonne Meo, Sam Middleton, Onnie Millar, Eva H. Miller, Sylvia Miller,
Lev Mills, James Mitchell, Arthur Monroe, Evangeline Montgomery, Ron Moore, Norma Morgan, Jimmie Mosely, Otto Neals,
Trudell Obey, Kermit Oliver, Haywood Oubré, John Outterbridge, Lorenzo Pace, William Pajaud, Denise Palm, William C. Palmer,
James Parks, Angela Perkins, Howardena Pindell, Elliott Pinkney, Adrian Piper, Horace Pippin, Leslie Price, Noah Purifoy, Martin
Puryear, Roscoe Reddix, Jerry Reed, Robert G. Reid, William Reid, John Rhoden, Gary Rickson, John Riddle, Faith Ringgold,
Haywood Rivers, Lethia Robertson, Brenda Rogers, Charles D. Rogers, Bernard Rollins, Arthur Rose, John Russell, Betye Saar,
Raymond Saunders, Charles Shelton, Thomas Sills, Jewel Simon, Merton Simpson, Van Slater, Alfred James Smith, Arenzo Smith,
Arthur Smith, Damballah Smith, George Smith, Howard Smith. Greg Sparks, Sharon Spencer, Nelson Stevens, James Tanner, Della
Taylor, Rod Taylor, Evelyn Terry, Alma Thomas, James "Son Ford" Thomas, Bob Thompson. John Torres, Elaine Towns, Curtis
Tucker, Yvonne Tucker, Charlene Tull, Leo Twiggs, Alfred Tyler, Anna Tyler, Bernard Upshur, Florestee Vance, Royce Vaughn,
Ruth Waddy, Larry Walker, William Walker, Bobby Walls, Carole Ward, Pecolia Warner, Mary Washington, James Watkins, Richard
Waytt, Roland Welton, Amos White, Charles White, Tim Whiten, Acquaetta Williams, Chester Williams, Daniel Williams, Laura
Williams, William T. Williams, Luster Willis, Fred Wilson, John Wilson, Stanley Wilson, Bernard Wright, Bernard Young, Charles
Young, Milton Young. 4to, cloth.
DURHAM (NC). NCCU Art Museum, North Carolina Central University.
Black Women Artists: North Carolina Connections.
1990.
Exhibition catalogue. Includes important text by Lynn Igoe: Black Women Artists: An Introduction. Provides an extensive list of
exhibits featuring black women artists since the first such show in 1947 at the Barnett Aden Gallery, Washington, DC. Artists
mentioned includes the usual 50-60 names: Edmonia Lewis, Meta Warrick Fuller, May Howard Jackson, Bertina Lee, Betty Blayton,
Barbara Chase-Riboud, Harriet Powers, Minnie Evans, Clementine Hunter, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Eva Hamlin Miller, Jacqueline
Fonvielle-Bontemps, Betye Saar, Alison Saar, Lezley Saar, Nellie Mae Rowe, Liani Foster, Barbara Tyson Mosley, Camille Billops,
Alma Thomas, Maren Hassinger. Checklist of black women artists includes: Emma Amos, Gwendolyn Bennett, Camille Billops, Betty
Blayton, Kay Brown, Margery Wheeler Brown, Vivian Browne, Beverly Buchanan, Selma Burke, Margaret Burroughs, Carole Byard,
Yvonne Pickering Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Minnie Evans, Meta Warrick Fuller, Maren Hassinger, Varnette P.
Honeywood, Margo Humphrey, Clementine Hunter, May Howard Jackson, Suzanne Jackson, Louise Jefferson, Marie Johnson-
Calloway, Lois Mailou Jones, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Edmonia Lewis, Samella Saunders Lewis, Dindga McCannon, Geraldine
McCullough, Allie McGhee, Valerie Maynard, Evangeline J. Montgomery, Norma Morgan, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Inez Nathaniel-
Walker, Senga Nengudi (Sue Irons), Delilah Pierce, Howardena Pindell, Adrian Piper, Stephanie Pogue, Georgette Powell, Harriet
Powers, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Faith Ringgold, Malkia (Lucille) Roberts, Nellie Mae Rowe, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Augusta
Savage, Jewel Simon, Ann Tanksley, Alma Thomas, Ruth Waddy, Laura Wheeler Waring. The exhibition includes many of the same
artists but also a number of artists not in Igoe's essay or checklist. Exhib. checklist lists the following: Marvette Pratt Aldrich, Brenda
Branch, Mable Bullock, Selma Burke, Elizabeth Catlett, Collins, Davis, Minnie Evans, Olivia Gatewood, Gail Hansberry, Lana
Thompson Henderson, Hill, Lois Mailou Jones, Eva Hamlin Miller, Norma Morgan, Stephanie Pogue, Mercedes Barnes Thompson.
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CHIARMONTE, PAULA.
Women Artists in the United States. A Selective Bibliography and Resource Guide on the Fine and Decorative Arts, 1750-
1986.
Boston: G.K. Hall, 1990.
Non-black or male artists who were erroneously included are omitted from this list: Eileen Abdulrashid, Mrs. Allen, Charlotte
Amevor, Emma Amos, Dorothy Atkins, Joan Cooper Bacchus, Ellen Banks, Camille Billops, Betty Blayton, Gloria Bohanon, [as
Bottanon], Shirley Bolton, Kay Brown, Vivian Browne, Beverly Buchanan, Selma Burke, Margaret Burroughs, Sheryle Butler, Carole
Byard, Catti [as Caiti], Yvonne Catchings, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Doris L. Colbert, Luiza Combs, Marva Cremer,
Doris Crudup, Oletha Devane, Stephanie Douglas, Eugenia Dunn, Queen Ellis, Annette Lewis Ensley, Minnie Jones Evans, Irene
Foreman, Miriam Francis, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Ibibio Fundi [as Ibibin] (a.k.a. Jo Austin), Alice Gafford, Wilhelmina Godfrey
[as Wihelmina], Amanda Gordon, Cynthia Hawkins, Kitty L. Hayden, Lana T. Henderson [as Lane], Vernita Henderson, Adrienne
Hoard, Jacqui Holmes, Margo Humphrey, Clementine Hunter, Claudia Jane Hutchinson, Martha E. Jackson, May Howard Jackson,
Suzanne Jackson, Rosalind Jeffries, Marie Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Barbara Jones-Hogu [as Jones-Hogn], Harriet Kennedy,
Gwendolyn Knight, Edmonia Lewis, Samella Lewis, Ida Magwood, Mary Manigault, Valerie Maynard, Geraldine McCullough, Mrs.
McIntosh, Dorothy McQuarter, Yvonne Cole Meo, Onnie Millar, Eva Hamlin Miller, Evangeline Montgomery, Sister Gertrude
Morgan, Norma Morgan, Marilyn Nance, Inez Nathaniel-Walker, Senga Nengudi, Winifred Owens-Hart, Denise Palm, Louise Parks,
Angela Perkins, Howardena Pindell, Adrian Piper, Stephanie Pogue, Harriet Powers, Elizabeth Prophet, Mavis Pusey, Faith Ringgold,
Brenda Rogers, Juanita Rogers, Nellie Mae Rowe, Betye Saar, Augusta Savage, Elizabeth Scott, Joyce Scott, Jewel Simon, Shirley
Stark, Della Brown Taylor [as Delia Braun Taylor], Jessie Telfair [as Jessi], Alma Thomas, Phyllis Thompson, Roberta Thompson,
Betty Tolbert, Elaine Tomlin, Lucinda Toomer, Elaine Towns, Yvonne Tucker, Charlene Tull, Anna Tyler, Florestee Vance, Pinkie
Veal, Ruth Waddy, Carole Ward, Laura W. Waring, Pecolia Warner, Mary Parks Washington, Laura W. Williams, Yvonne Williams.
A few African American male artists are also included: Leslie Garland Bolling, Ademola Olugebefola [as Adennola].
LONG, RICHARD, et al.
African American Works on Paper from the Cochran Collection.
Lagrange, 1991.
74 pp., 47 full-page illus. (6 in color), biogs. of 64 artists in this substantial collection. Intro. by Richard Long; texts by Judith
Wilson, Camille Billops, Robert Blackburn. Includes 66 major 20th-century artists (including 16 women artists and a few less well-
known artists): Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Trena Banks, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Betty
Blayton, Moe Brooker, Vivian Browne, Beverly Buchanan, Selma Burke, Nanette Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Ed Clark, Eldzier Cortor,
Ernest Crichlow, Allan Rohan Crite, John Dowell, Allan Edmunds, Melvin Edwards, Elton Fax, Herbert Gentry, Sam Gilliam, Maren
Hassinger, Manuel Hughes, Richard Hunt, Wilmer Jennings, Lois Mailou Jones, Mohammad Khalil, Ronald Joseph, Jacob Lawrence,
Norman Lewis, James Little, Whitfield Lovell, Al Loving, Richard Mayhew, Norma Morgan, Frank Neal, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Joe
Overstreet, Howardena Pindell, Stephanie Pogue, Richard Powell, Mavis Pusey, Faith Ringgold, Aminah Robinson, Betye Saar, Al
Smith, Walter Agustus Simon, Morgan Smith, Marvin Smith, Vincent Smith, Luther Stovall, Alma Thomas, Mildred Thompson,
James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Jack Whitten, Walter Williams, William T. Williams, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Hartwell
Yeargans. [16 venue touring exhibition beginning at New Visions Gallery, Atlanta, GA.] 4to (28 cm.), wraps. First ed.
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NEW YORK (NY). Kenkeleba Gallery.
The Search for Freedom: African American Abstract Painting 1945-1975.
1991.
139 pp., 62 mostly full-page color plates, 3 b&w illus., extensive footnotes. 80 works by 37 artists with short bios. and exhibs. for
each (including 8 women artists.) Texts by Ann Gibson, Steve Cannon, Frank Bowling and Thomas McEvilley. An important and
ground-breaking book. Artists: Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, Betty Blayton-Taylor, Frank Bowling, Peter Bradley, Vivian
Browne, Ed Clark, Adger Cowans, Beauford Delaney, Sam Gilliam, Ray Grist, Bill Hutson, Zell Ingram, Gerald Jackson, Harlan
Jackson, Daniel Larue Johnson, Ronald Joseph, Larry Compton Kolawole, Norman Lewis, Al Loving, Richard Mayhew, Algernon
Miller, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Joe Overstreet, Howardena Pindell, Rose Piper, Robert Reid, Haywood Bill Rivers, Thomas Sills,
Thelma Johnson Streat, Alma Thomas, Mildred Thompson, William White, Jack Whitten, William T. Williams, Frank Wimberley,
Hale Woodruff. 4to, laminated papered boards. First ed.
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THOMISON, DENNIS.
The Black Artist in America: An Index to Reproductions.
Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1991.
Includes: index to Black artists, bibliography (including doctoral dissertations and audiovisual materials.) Many of the dozens of
spelling errors and incomplete names have been corrected in this entry and names of known white artists omitted from our entry, but
errors may still exist in this entry, so beware: Jesse Aaron, Charles Abramson, Maria Adair, Lauren Adam, Ovid P. Adams, Ron
Adams, Terry Adkins, (Jonathan) Ta Coumba T. Aiken, Jacques Akins, Lawrence E. Alexander, Tina Allen, Pauline Alley-Barnes,
Charles Alston, Frank Alston, Charlotte Amevor, Emma Amos (Levine), Allie Anderson, Benny Andrews, Edmund Minor Archer,
Pastor Argudin y Pedroso [as Y. Pedroso Argudin], Anna Arnold, Ralph Arnold, William Artis, Kwasi Seitu Asante [as Kwai Seitu
Asantey], Steve Ashby, Rose Auld, Ellsworth Ausby, Henry Avery, Charles Axt, Roland Ayers, Annabelle Bacot, Calvin Bailey,
Herman Kofi Bailey, Malcolm Bailey, Annabelle Baker, E. Loretta Ballard, Jene Ballentine, Casper Banjo, Bill Banks, Ellen Banks, John
W. Banks, Henry Bannarn, Edward Bannister, Curtis R. Barnes, Ernie Barnes, James MacDonald Barnsley, Richmond Barthé, Jean-
Michel Basquiat, Daniel Carter Beard, Romare Bearden, Phoebe Beasley, Falcon Beazer, Arthello Beck, Sherman Beck, Cleveland
Bellow, Gwendolyn Bennett, Herbert Bennett, Ed Bereal, Arthur Berry, Devoice Berry, Ben Bey, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Willie
Birch, Eloise Bishop, Robert Blackburn, Tarleton Blackwell, Lamont K. Bland, Betty Blayton, Gloria Bohanon, Hawkins Bolden,
Leslie Bolling, Shirley Bolton, Higgins Bond, Erma Booker, Michael Borders, Ronald Boutte, Siras Bowens, Lynn Bowers, Frank
Bowling, David Bustill Bowser, David Patterson Boyd, David Bradford, Harold Bradford, Peter Bradley, Fred Bragg, Winston Branch,
Brumsic Brandon, James Brantley, William Braxton, Bruce Brice, Arthur Britt, James Britton, Sylvester Britton, Moe Brooker,
Bernard Brooks, Mable Brooks, Oraston Brooks-el, David Scott Brown, Elmer Brown, Fred Brown, Frederick Brown, Grafton
Brown, James Andrew Brown, Joshua Brown, Kay Brown, Marvin Brown, Richard Brown, Samuel Brown, Vivian Browne, Henry
Brownlee, Beverly Buchanan, Selma Burke, Arlene Burke-Morgan, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Cecil Burton, Charles
Burwell, Nathaniel Bustion, David Butler, Carole Byard, Albert Byrd, Walter Cade, Joyce Cadoo, Bernard Cameron, Simms Campbell,
Frederick Campbell, Thomas Cannon (as Canon), Nicholas Canyon, John Carlis, Arthur Carraway, Albert Carter, Allen Carter,
George Carter, Grant Carter, Ivy Carter, Keithen Carter, Robert Carter, William Carter, Yvonne Carter, George Washington Carver,
Bernard Casey, Yvonne Catchings, Elizabeth Catlett, Frances Catlett, Mitchell Caton, Catti, Charlotte Chambless, Dana Chandler,
John Chandler, Robin Chandler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Kitty Chavis, Edward Christmas, Petra Cintron, George Clack, Claude Clark
Sr., Claude Lockhart Clark, Edward Clark, Irene Clark, LeRoy Clarke, Pauline Clay, Denise Cobb, Gylbert Coker, Marion Elizabeth
Cole, Archie Coleman, Floyd Coleman, Donald Coles, Robert Colescott, Carolyn Collins, Paul Collins, Richard Collins, Samuel
Collins, Don Concholar, Wallace Conway, Houston Conwill, William A. Cooper, Arthur Coppedge, Jean Cornwell, Eldzier Cortor,
Samuel Countee, Harold Cousins, Cleo Crawford, Marva Cremer, Ernest Crichlow, Norma Criss, Allan Rohan Crite, Harvey Cropper,
Geraldine Crossland, Rushie Croxton, Doris Crudup, Dewey Crumpler, Emilio Cruz, Charles Cullen (White artist), Vince Cullers,
Michael Cummings, Urania Cummings, DeVon Cunningham, Samuel Curtis, William Curtis, Artis Dameron, Mary Reed Daniel,
Aaron Darling, Alonzo Davis, Bing Davis, Charles Davis, Dale Davis, Rachel Davis, Theresa Davis, Ulysses Davis, Walter Lewis
Davis, Charles C. Davis, William Dawson, Juette Day, Roy DeCarava, Avel DeKnight, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Nadine
Delawrence, Louis Delsarte, Richard Dempsey, J. Brooks Dendy, III (as Brooks Dendy), James Denmark, Murry DePillars, Joseph
DeVillis, Robert D'Hue, Kenneth Dickerson, Voris Dickerson, Charles Dickson, Frank Dillon, Leo Dillon, Robert Dilworth, James
Donaldson, Jeff Donaldson, Lillian Dorsey, William Dorsey, Aaron Douglas, Emory Douglas, Calvin Douglass, Glanton Dowdell,
John Dowell, Sam Doyle, David Driskell, Ulric S. Dunbar, Robert Duncanson, Eugenia Dunn, John Morris Dunn, Edward Dwight,
Adolphus Ealey, Lawrence Edelin, William Edmondson, Anthony Edwards, Melvin Edwards, Eugene Eda [as Edy], John Elder,
Maurice Ellison, Walter Ellison, Mae Engron, Annette Easley, Marion Epting, Melvyn Ettrick (as Melvin), Clifford Eubanks, Minnie
Evans, Darrell Evers, Frederick Eversley, Cyril Fabio, James Fairfax, Kenneth Falana, Josephus Farmer, John Farrar, William
Farrow, Malaika Favorite, Elton Fax, Tom Feelings, Claude Ferguson, Violet Fields, Lawrence Fisher, Thomas Flanagan, Walter
Flax, Frederick Flemister, Mikelle Fletcher, Curt Flood, Batunde Folayemi, George Ford, Doyle Foreman, Leroy Foster, Walker
Foster, John Francis, Richard Franklin, Ernest Frazier, Allan Freelon, Gloria Freeman, Pam Friday, John Fudge, Meta Fuller, Ibibio
Fundi, Ramon Gabriel, Alice Gafford, West Gale, George Gamble, Reginald Gammon, Christine Gant, Jim Gary, Adolphus Garrett,
Leroy Gaskin, Lamerol Gatewood, Herbert Gentry, Joseph Geran, Ezekiel Gibbs, William Giles, Sam Gilliam, Robert Glover, William
Golding, Paul Goodnight, Erma Gordon, L. T. Gordon, Robert Gordon, Russell Gordon, Rex Goreleigh, Bernard Goss, Joe Grant,
Oscar Graves, Todd Gray, Annabelle Green, James Green, Jonathan Green, Robert Green, Donald Greene, Michael Greene, Joseph
Grey, Charles Ron Griffin, Eugene Grigsby, Raymond Grist, Michael Gude, Ethel Guest, John Hailstalk, Charles Haines, Horathel
Hall, Karl Hall, Wesley Hall, Edward Hamilton, Eva Hamlin-Miller, David Hammons, James Hampton, Phillip Hampton, Marvin
Harden, Inge Hardison, John Hardrick, Edwin Harleston, William Harper, Hugh Harrell, Oliver Harrington, Gilbert Harris, Hollon
Harris, John Harris, Scotland J. B. Harris, Warren Harris, Bessie Harvey, Maren Hassinger, Thelma Hawkins, William Hawkins,
Frank Hayden, Kitty Hayden, Palmer Hayden, William Hayden, Vertis Hayes, Anthony Haynes, Wilbur Haynie, Benjamin Hazard, June
Hector, Dion Henderson, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, William Henderson, Barkley Hendricks, Gregory Henry, Robert Henry, Ernest
Herbert, James Herring, Mark Hewitt, Leon Hicks, Renalda Higgins, Hector Hill, Felrath Hines, Alfred Hinton, Tim Hinton, Adrienne
Hoard, Irwin Hoffman, Raymond Holbert, Geoffrey Holder, Robin Holder, Lonnie Holley, Alvin Hollingsworth, Eddie Holmes,
Varnette Honeywood, Earl J. Hooks, Ray Horner, Paul Houzell, Helena Howard, Humbert Howard, John Howard, Mildred Howard,
Raymond Howell, William Howell, Calvin Hubbard, Henry Hudson, Julien Hudson, James Huff, Manuel Hughes, Margo Humphrey,
Raymond Hunt, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Elliott Hunter, Arnold Hurley, Bill Hutson, Zell Ingram, Sue Irons, A. B. Jackson,
Gerald Jackson, Harlan Jackson, Hiram Jackson, May Jackson, Oliver Jackson, Robert Jackson, Suzanne Jackson, Walter Jackson,
Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Bob James, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jasmin Joseph [as Joseph Jasmin], Archie Jefferson, Rosalind Jeffries, Noah
Jemison, Barbara Fudge Jenkins, Florian Jenkins, Chester Jennings, Venola Jennings, Wilmer Jennings, Georgia Jessup, Johana,
Daniel Johnson, Edith Johnson, Harvey Johnson, Herbert Johnson, Jeanne Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Marie Johnson-Calloway,
Milton Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Benjamin Jones, Calvin Jones, Dorcas Jones, Frank A.
Jones, Frederic Jones, Henry B. Jones, Johnny Jones, Lawrence Arthur Jones, Leon Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Nathan Jones, Tonnie
Jones, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Jack Jordan, Cliff Joseph, Ronald Joseph, Lemuel Joyner, Edward Judie,
Michael Kabu, Arthur Kaufman, Charles Keck, Paul Keene, John Kendrick, Harriet Kennedy, Leon Kennedy, Joseph Kersey; Virginia
Kiah, Henri King, James King, Gwendolyn Knight, Robert Knight, Lawrence Kolawole, Brenda Lacy, (Laura) Jean Lacy, Roy
LaGrone, Artis Lane, Doyle Lane, Raymond Lark, Carolyn Lawrence, Jacob Lawrence, James Lawrence, Clarence Lawson, Louis
LeBlanc, James Lee, Hughie Lee-Smith, Lizetta LeFalle-Collins, Leon Leonard, Bruce LeVert, Edmonia Lewis, Edwin Lewis, Flora
Lewis, James E. Lewis, Norman Lewis, Roy Lewis, Samella Lewis, Elba Lightfoot, Charles Lilly [as Lily], Arturo Lindsay, Henry
Linton, Jules Lion, James Little, Marcia Lloyd, Tom Lloyd, Jon Lockard, Donald Locke, Lionel Lofton, Juan Logan, Bert Long, Willie
Longshore, Edward Loper, Francisco Lord, Jesse Lott, Edward Love, Nina Lovelace, Whitfield Lovell, Alvin Loving, Ramon Loy,
William Luckett, John Lutz, Don McAllister, Theadius McCall, Dindga McCannon, Edward McCluney, Jesse McCowan, Sam
McCrary, Geraldine McCullough, Lawrence McGaugh, Charles McGee, Donald McIlvaine, Karl McIntosh, Joseph Mack, Edward
McKay, Thomas McKinney, Alexander McMath, Robert McMillon, William McNeil, Lloyd McNeill, Clarence Major, William Majors,
David Mann, Ulysses Marshall, Phillip Lindsay Mason, Lester Matthews, Sharon Matthews, William (Bill) Maxwell, Gordon Mayes,
Marietta Mayes, Richard Mayhew, Valerie Maynard, Victoria Meek, Leon Meeks, Yvonne Meo, Helga Meyer, Gaston Micheaux,
Charles Mickens, Samuel Middleton, Onnie Millar, Aaron Miller, Algernon Miller, Don Miller, Earl Miller, Eva Hamlin Miller, Guy
Miller, Julia Miller, Charles Milles, Armsted Mills, Edward Mills, Lev Mills, Priscilla Mills (P'lla), Carol Mitchell, Corinne Mitchell,
Tyrone Mitchell, Arthur Monroe, Elizabeth Montgomery, Ronald Moody, Ted Moody, Frank Moore, Ron Moore, Sabra Moore,
Theophilus Moore, William Moore, Leedell Moorehead, Scipio Moorhead, Clarence Morgan, Norma Morgan, Sister Gertrude
Morgan, Patricia Morris, Keith Morrison, Lee Jack Morton, Jimmie Mosely, David Mosley, Lottie Moss, Archibald Motley, Hugh
Mulzac, Betty Murchison, J. B. Murry, Teixera Nash, Inez Nathaniel, Frank Neal, George Neal, Jerome Neal, Robert Neal, Otto
Neals, Robert Newsome, James Newton, Rochelle Nicholas, John Nichols, Isaac Nommo, Oliver Nowlin, Trudell Obey, Constance
Okwumabua, Osira Olatunde, Kermit Oliver, Yaounde Olu, Ademola Olugebefola, Mary O'Neal, Haywood Oubré, Simon Outlaw,
John Outterbridge, Joseph Overstreet, Carl Owens, Winnie Owens-Hart, Lorenzo Pace, William Pajaud, Denise Palm, James Pappas,
Christopher Parks, James Parks, Louise Parks, Verna Parks, Oliver Parson, James Pate, Edgar Patience, John Payne, Leslie Payne,
Sandra Peck, Alberto Pena, Angela Perkins, Marion Perkins, Michael Perry, Bertrand Phillips, Charles James Phillips, Harper Phillips,
Ted Phillips, Delilah Pierce, Elijah Pierce, Harold Pierce, Anderson Pigatt, Stanley Pinckney, Howardena Pindell, Elliott Pinkney, Jerry
Pinkney, Robert Pious, Adrian Piper, Horace Pippin, Betty Pitts, Stephanie Pogue, Naomi Polk, Charles Porter, James Porter,
Georgette Powell, Judson Powell, Richard Powell, Daniel Pressley, Leslie Price, Ramon Price, Nelson Primus, Arnold Prince, E.
(Evelyn?) Proctor, Nancy Prophet, Ronnie Prosser, William Pryor, Noah Purifoy, Florence Purviance, Martin Puryear, Mavis Pusey,
Helen Ramsaran, Joseph Randolph; Thomas Range, Frank Rawlings, Jennifer Ray, Maxine Raysor, Patrick Reason, Roscoe Reddix,
Junius Redwood, James Reed, Jerry Reed, Donald Reid, O. Richard Reid, Robert Reid, Leon Renfro, John Rhoden, Ben Richardson,
Earle Richardson, Enid Richardson, Gary Rickson, John Riddle, Gregory Ridley, Faith Ringgold, Haywood Rivers, Arthur Roach,
Malkia Roberts, Royal Robertson, Aminah Robinson, Charles Robinson, John N. Robinson, Peter L. Robinson, Brenda Rogers,
Charles Rogers, Herbert Rogers, Juanita Rogers, Sultan Rogers, Bernard Rollins, Henry Rollins, Arthur Rose, Charles Ross, James
Ross, Nellie Mae Rowe, Sandra Rowe, Nancy Rowland, Winfred Russsell, Mahler Ryder, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Charles Sallee,
JoeSam., Marion Sampler, Bert Samples, Juan Sanchez, Eve Sandler, Walter Sanford, Floyd Sapp, Raymond Saunders, Augusta
Savage, Ann Sawyer, Sydney Schenck, Vivian Schuyler Key, John Scott (Johnny) , John Tarrell Scott, Joyce Scott, William Scott,
Charles Searles, Charles Sebree, Bernard Sepyo, Bennie Settles, Franklin Shands, Frank Sharpe, Christopher Shelton, Milton Sherrill,
Thomas Sills, Gloria Simmons, Carroll Simms, Jewell Simon, Walter Simon, Coreen Simpson, Ken Simpson, Merton Simpson,
William Simpson, Michael Singletary (as Singletry), Nathaniel Sirles, Margaret Slade (Kelley), Van Slater, Louis Sloan, Albert A.
Smith, Alfred J. Smith, Alvin Smith, Arenzo Smith, Dolphus Smith, Floyd Smith, Frank Smith, George Smith, Howard Smith, John
Henry Smith, Marvin Smith, Mary T. Smith, Sue Jane Smith, Vincent Smith, William Smith, Zenobia Smith, Rufus Snoddy, Sylvia
Snowden, Carroll Sockwell, Ben Solowey, Edgar Sorrells, Georgia Speller, Henry Speller, Shirley Stark, David Stephens, Lewis
Stephens, Walter Stephens, Erik Stephenson, Nelson Stevens, Mary Stewart, Renée Stout, Edith Strange, Thelma Streat, Richard
Stroud, Dennis Stroy, Charles Suggs, Sharon Sulton, Johnnie Swearingen, Earle Sweeting, Roderick Sykes, Clarence Talley, Ann
Tanksley, Henry O. Tanner, James Tanner, Ralph Tate, Carlton Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Janet Taylor Pickett, Lawrence Taylor, William
(Bill) Taylor, Herbert Temple, Emerson Terry, Evelyn Terry, Freida Tesfagiorgis, Alma Thomas, Charles Thomas, James "Son Ford"
Thomas, Larry Erskine Thomas, Matthew Thomas, Roy Thomas, William Thomas (a.k.a. Juba Solo), Conrad Thompson, Lovett
Thompson, Mildred Thompson, Phyllis Thompson, Bob Thompson, Russ Thompson, Dox Thrash, Mose Tolliver, William Tolliver,
Lloyd Toone, John Torres, Elaine Towns, Bill Traylor, Charles Tucker, Clive Tucker, Yvonne Edwards Tucker, Charlene Tull,
Donald Turner, Leo Twiggs, Alfred Tyler, Anna Tyler, Barbara Tyson-Mosley, Bernard Upshur, Jon Urquhart, Florestee Vance,
Ernest Varner, Royce Vaughn, George Victory, Harry Vital, Ruth Waddy, Annie Walker, Charles Walker, Clinton Walker, Earl
Walker, Lawrence Walker, Raymond Walker [a.k.a. Bo Walker], William Walker, Bobby Walls, Daniel Warburg, Eugene Warburg,
Denise Ward-Brown, Evelyn Ware, Laura Waring, Masood Ali Warren, Horace Washington, James Washington, Mary Washington,
Timothy Washington, Richard Waters, James Watkins, Curtis Watson, Howard Watson, Willard Watson, Richard Waytt, Claude
Weaver, Stephanie Weaver, Clifton Webb, Derek Webster, Edward Webster, Albert Wells, James Wells, Roland Welton, Barbara
Wesson, Pheoris West, Lamonte Westmoreland, Charles White, Cynthia White, Franklin White, George White, J. Philip White, Jack
White (sculptor), Jack White (painter), John Whitmore, Jack Whitten, Garrett Whyte, Benjamin Wigfall, Bertie Wiggs, Deborah
Wilkins, Timothy Wilkins, Billy Dee Williams, Chester Williams, Douglas Williams, Frank Williams, George Williams, Gerald
Williams, Jerome Williams, Jose Williams, Laura Williams, Matthew Williams, Michael K. Williams, Pat Ward Williams, Randy
Williams, Roy Lee Williams, Todd Williams, Walter Williams, William T. Williams, Yvonne Williams, Philemona Williamson, Stan
Williamson, Luster Willis, A. B. Wilson, Edward Wilson, Ellis Wilson, Fred Wilson, George Wilson, Henry Wilson, John Wilson,
Stanley C. Wilson, Linda Windle, Eugene Winslow, Vernon Winslow, Cedric Winters, Viola Wood, Hale Woodruff, Roosevelt
Woods, Shirley Woodson, Beulah Woodard, Bernard Wright, Dmitri Wright, Estella Viola Wright, George Wright, Richard Wyatt,
Frank Wyley, Richard Yarde, James Yeargans, Joseph Yoakum, Bernard Young, Charles Young, Clarence Young, Kenneth Young,
Milton Young.
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BROOKVILLE (NY). Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University.
BOB BLACKBURN's Printmaking Workshop: Artists of Color.
1992.
62, (2) pp., 74 illus. (8 color plates), biographies of over fifty artists. Intro. by Kay Walkingstick; text by Noah Jemisin. One of the
early references to Blackburn's profound influence on the printmaking world, and still not focusing on his own prints. A tribute to the
Printmaking Workshop with illus of more than 70 artists who worked with Blackburn (approximately two thirds of those included
are Black artists.) Includes: Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, William Artis, Ellsworth Ausby, Henry Bannarn, Romare
Bearden, Hameed Benjamin, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Willie Birch, Betty Blayton, Marion Brown, Vivian Browne, Selma Burke,
Nanette Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Ed Clark, Adger Cowans, Ernest Crichlow, Nadine DeLawrence, Louis Delsarte, Aaron Douglas,
Melvin Edwards, Herbert Gentry, (John) Solace Glenn, Michele Godwin, Rex Goreleigh, Manuel Hughes, Zell Ingram, Noah
Jemison, Ronald Joseph, Mohammad Omer Khalil, Jacob Lawrence, Spencer Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Norma Morgan, Sara
Murrell, Otto Neals, Nefertiti, Lee Pate, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Augusta Savage, Alfred James Smith, Jr., Vincent Smith,
Maxwell Taylor, Luther Vann, Charles White, Michael Kelly Williams, William T. Williams. Small oblong 4to, wraps. First ed.
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KING-HAMMOND, LESLIE and Bell Hooks.
Gumbo Ya Ya: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Women Artists.
New York, Midmarch Arts Press, 1995.
351 pp., over 300 illus. (11 in color), photo and /or illus., biogs., exhibs., and brief critical text for each artist, index. Essential
reference listing 152 women artists with entries by African American scholars and curators; more than a dozen others are mentioned
in passing. Includes: May Howard Jackson, Meta Warrick Fuller, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Augusta Savage, Annie Walker, Laura
Waring, Irene Clark, Clementine Hunter, Harriet Powers, Gladys-Marie Fry. Cuesta Benberry, Rosalind Jeffries [as Roslind], Emma
Amos, Rose Auld, Xenobia Bailey, Mildred Baldwin, Ellen Banks, Trena Banks, Phoebe Beasley, Camille Billops, Betty Blayton, Lula
Mae Blocton, Kabuya P. Bowens, Brenda Branch, Kay Brown [as Kaye], Vivian Browne, Beverly Buchanan, Selma Burke, Millie
Burns, Margaret Burroughs, Carole Byard, Carol Ann Carter, Nanette Carter, Yvonne Pickering Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Catti, Robin
Chandler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Marie Cochran, Virginia Cox, Pat Cummings, Mary Reed Daniel, Juette Day, Nadine DeLawrence,
Julee Dickerson-Thompson, Marita Dingus, Yanla Dozier, Tina Dunkley, Malaika Favorite, Violet Fields, Ibibio Fundi, Olivia
Gatewood, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Michele Godwin, Gladys Barker Grauer, Renée Green, Ethel Guest, Cheryl Hanna, Inge Hardison,
Bessie Harvey, Maren Hassinger, Cynthia Hawkins, Janet Henry, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Adrienne Hoard, Robin Holder, Jenelsie
Holloway, Jacqui Holmes, Varnette Honeywood, Mildred Howard, Margo Humphrey, Irmagean, Judith Jackson, Suzanne Jackson,
Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Marie Johnson-Calloway, Marva Lee Pitchford Jolly, Lois Mailou Jones, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Kai Kambel,
Margaret Slade Kelly, Gwendolyn Knight, Ruth Lampkins, Artis Lane, Viola Leak, Dori Lemeh, Mary Le Ravin, Rosalind Letcher,
Edmonia Lewis, Samella Lewis, Marcia Lloyd, Fern Logan, Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Valerie Maynard, Dindga McCannon,
Geraldine McCullough, Vivian McDuffie, Joanne McFarland, Vicki Meek, Yvonne Meo, Eva Hamlin Miller, Corinne Howard Mitchell,
Evangeline Montgomery, Norma Morgan, Lillian Morgan-Lewis, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Deborah Muirhead, Sana Musasama,
Marilyn Nance, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O'Grady, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Winifred Owens-Hart, Sandra Payne, Janet Taylor
Pickett, Delilah Williams Pierce, Howardena Pindell, Adrian Piper, Rose Piper, Stephanie Pogue, Georgette Powell, Debra Priestly,
Mavis Pusey, Helen Ramsaran, Patricia Ravarra, Faith Ringgold, Malkia Roberts, Aminah Robinson, Sandra Rowe, Alison Saar, Betye
Saar, Eve Sandler, Joanne Scott, Joyce J. Scott, Cheryl Shackleton, Yolanda Sharpe, Gail Shaw-Clemons, Jewel Simon, Coreen
Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Clarissa Sligh, Gilda Snowden, Sylvia Snowden, Shirley Stark, Janet Stewart, Renée Stout, Elisabeth
Sunday, Ann Tanksley, Vivian Tanner, Anna Tate, Evelyn Terry, Freida Tesfagiorgis, Alma Thomas, Barbara Thomas, Mildred
Thompson, René Townsend, Yvonne Tucker, Ruth Waddy, Denise Ward-Brown, Fan Warren, Bisa Washington, Mary Washington,
Joyce Wellman, Adell Westbrook, Linda Whitaker, Pat Ward Williams, Philemona Williamson, Deborah Willis-Braithwaite, Shirley
Woodson, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Inez Nathaniel-Walker, Nellie Mae Rowe, Mary T. Smith, Grannie Dear Williams, Mary Le Ravin,
Anna Tate. 4to (11 x 8.5 in ), wraps. First ed.
HELLER, JULES and NANCY G. HELLER.
North American Women Artists.
New York: Garland, 1995.
illus., biogs. Includes 43 African American artists: Emma Amos, Ellen Banks, Betty Blayton-Taylor, Vivian Browne, Beverly
Buchanan, Selma Burke, Lilian Thomas Burwell, Yvonne Pickering Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Dewayne Chase-Riboud, Barbara
Chavous, Minnie Jones Evans, Meta Warrick Fuller, Maren Hassinger, Margo Humphrey, Clementine Hunter, May Howard Jackson,
Suzanne Fitzallen Jackson, Marie E. Johnson-Calloway, Lois Mailou Jones, Viola Burley Leak, Edmonia Lewis, Samella Sanders
Lewis, Geraldine McCullough, Evangeline J. Montgomery, Winnie Owens-Hart, Howardena Pindell, Adrian Piper, Stephanie Elaine
Pogue, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Faith Ringgold, Malkia Roberts, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Augusta Christine Savage, Georgette
Seabrooke, Jewel Woodard Simon, Clarissa Sligh, Sylvia Snowden, Renée Stout, Alma Thomas, Denise Ward-Brown, Laura Wheeler
Waring Stout 4to, cloth.
BRITTON, CRYSTAL A.
African-American Art: The Long Struggle.
New York: Smithmark, 1996.
128 pp., 107 color plates (mostly full-page and double-page), notes, index. Artists include: Charles Alston, Jean-Michel Basquiat,
David Bustille Bowser, Betty Blayton, Selma Burke, Elizabeth Catlett, Robert Colescott, Renee Cox, Allan Rohan Crite, Charles
Sebree. Dave [the Potter], Robert S. Duncanson, William Edmondson, Melvin Edwards, Minnie Evans, Josemite Falls, James
Forman, Robin Holder, David Hammons, William A. Harper, Lois Mailou Jones, Thomas Day, Joshua Johnston, James A. Porter,
Harriet Powers, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, Howardena Pindell, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Laura
Wheeler Waring, et al. 4to, pictorial boards, d.j. First ed.
RIGGS, THOMAS, ed.
St. James Guide to Black Artists.
Detroit: St. James Press, 1997.
xxiv, 625 pp., illus. A highly selective reference work listing only approximately 400 artists of African descent worldwide (including
around 300 African American artists, approximately 20% women artists.) Illus. of work or photos of many artists, brief descriptive
texts by well-known scholars, with selected list of exhibitions for each, plus many artists' statements. A noticeable absence of many
artists under 45, most photographers, and many women artists. Far fewer artists listed here than in Igoe, Cederholm, or other
sources. Stout 4to (29 cm.), laminated yellow papered boards. First ed.
TAHA, HALIMA.
Collecting African American Art: Works on Paper and Canvas.
New York: Crown, 1998.
xvi, 270 pp., approx. 150 color plates, brief bibliog., index, appendices of art and photo dealers, museums and other resources. Intro.
by Ntozake Shange. Forewords by Dierdre Bibby and Samella Lewis. Text consists of a few sentences at best on most of the
hundreds of listed artists. Numerous typos and other errors and misinformation throughout. 4to (29 cm.), laminated papered boards,
d.j.
FARRINGTON, LISA E.
Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists.
New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
354 pp., 150 color plates, 100 b&w illus. A history of African American women artists, from slavery to the present day. Draws on
numerous interviews with contemporary artists. The following are included with illustration(s): Laylah Ali, Emma Amos, Xenobia
Bailey, Camille Billops, Betty Blayton, Chakaia Booker, Kay Brown, Vivian Browne, Beverly Buchanan, Selma Burke, Carole Byard,
Carol Ann Carter, Nanette Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Yvonne Parks Catchings, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Luiza Francis Combs, Josie
Covington, Renee Cox, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Sharon Dunn, Gaye Ellington, Minnie Evans, Meta Warrick Fuller, Ellen Gallagher,
Deborah Grant, Alyne Harris, Bessie Harvey, Robin Holder, Margo Humphrey, Clementine Hunter, May Howard Jackson, Martha
Jackson-Jarvis, Marie Johnson-Calloway, Lois Mailou Jones, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Elizabeth Keckley, Pamela Jennings, Jean Lacy,
Ruth Lampkins, Edmonia Lewis, Samella Lewis, Valerie Maynard, Dindga McCannon, Geraldine McCullough, Vicki Meek, Sister
Gertrude Morgan, Lorraine O'Grady, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Winnie Owens-Hart, Howardena Pindell, Adrian Piper, Stephanie Pogue,
Georgette Seabrooke Powell, Harriet Powers, Debra Priestly, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Helen Evans Ramsaran, Nellie Mae Rowe,
Betye Saar, Gail Shaw-Clemons, Mary T. Smith, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Joyce J. Scott, Lorna Simpson, Sylvia
Snowden, Renee Stout, Freida High W. Tesfagiogis, Alma Thomas, Annie E. Anderson Walker, Kara Walker, Adell Westbrook,
Laura Wheeler Waring, Carrie Mae Weems, Joyce Wellman, Philemona Williamson, Deborah Willis, Beulah Ecton Woodard. Others
such as Margaret Burroughs, Catti, Tana Hargest, Kira Lynn Harris, Cynthia Hawkins, Jennie C. Jones, Adia Millet, Julie Mehretu,
Camille Norment, Aminah Robinson, Nadine Robinson, Gilda Snowden, Ann Tanksley, Shirley Woodson, are briefly mentioned in
passing. 4to (11 x 8 in.), cloth, d.j.
Other Publications and Media Representation:
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2004: “Something to Look Forward To” Exhibit Catalog, Franklin & Marshall College
2004: “Persistence of Vision: African American Abstract Art”, a documentary for public Television
1998: “Artist and Influence”, vol. XVII, Hatch-Billops Collection
1980: “Go Tell It”, Nationally syndicated television program
1979: “You Gotta Have Art”, National Broadcasting Company
1978: “Making Thoughts Become”, Betty Blayton-Taylor
1973: “The Children's Art Carnival”, 15-minute videotape (Free Europe, Germany TV, WLIB, WNYC, WWRL, among others.)
1973: “Betty Blayton, Artist", Contact Magazine article
1973: “Kids are Her Medium”, Syracuse Alumna News
1972: “People Who Make”, Art Gallery Guide
1972: “Five Black Artists”, Daily Close Up, The New York Post
1972: “Atlanta University Book on Art”
1970: “Like It Is”, Ruth Bowman on The Arts, WNYC Radio Five Black Artists, Film – Romare Bearden, Betty Blayton, Barbara
Chase, Richard Hunt and Charles White
Awards:
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2005: Woman's Caucus for the Arts "Life Time Achievement Award"
1995: CBS “Martin Luther King, Jr. – Fulfilling The Dream Award”
1990: The National Arts Education Association's “Eugene Grisby Award for Excellent Contributions in Art Education”
1989: “The Governor's Art Award”, Presented by the State of New York
1988: “Black Women in the Arts Award”
1985: Who's Who in American Art
1984: “Empire State Woman of the Year in the Arts”
1982: “Apple Polisher Award”
1980: National Council of Negro Women of New York Achievement Award
1980: City of New Orleans “Honorary Citizen/ Teacher Training/ Arts in Education”
Other Professional Background / Partial Listing:
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1968 -1975: Founded The Children's Art Carnival in Harlem, NY in conjunction with Victor D'Amico and the Museum of Modern Art.
1968-1997: Board Member/Executive Director, The Children's Art Carnival
1997-2004: Founder/Special Projects Coordinator, The Children's Art Carnival
1998-2004: Board Member/ Volunteer affairs and Liaison, The Children's Art Carnival
1978-1998: Member of the Board, The Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
1997: Advisor, The Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
1993-1998: Member of the Board, Harlem Textile Works
1992-1994: NYS Education's Arts & Humanities Curriculum Development Committee
1983-1993: Founding Board Member, Harlem Textile Works, Inc. (A Children's Art Carnival Project)
1983-1985: Member, David Rockefeller Art in Education Research Committee
1979-1988: Member, New York City Commission for Cultural Affairs
1978-1998: Member of the Board, The Bob Blackburn Printmaking Workshop
1975-1996: Member of the Board, The Arts & Business Council, New York City
1968-1994: Consultant, Board of Education of the City of New York
1965-1977: Secretary of the Board, The Studio Museum of Harlem
1965: Founding Member, The Studio Museum in Harlem
Interests:
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In addition to playing major roles as a Founding Member of: The Children's Art Carnival in Harlem, The Studio Museum in Harlem
and Harlem Textile works; Betty Blayton has also been deeply involved in Metaphysical Studies, Theatre, Mythology, Anthropology
and Health.
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Last updated 9/10/07
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