Author:
Brownlee, Andrea Barnwell.
Publisher:Seattle : Walter O. Evans Foundation for Art and Literature : In association with University of Washington Press, c1999.
Description:165 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
Note:Foreword / Andrea D. Barnwell -- Introduction : investing in the vitality of American art / Tritobia Hayes Benjamin -- Reflections on collecting / Walter O. Evans -- A way out of no way : African American artists in the nineteenth century / Kirsten P. Buick -- Illustrating the word : paintings by Aaron Douglas and Jacob Lawrence / Amy M. Mooney -- Sojourner Truth or Harriet Tubman? : Charles White's depiction of an American heroine / Andrea D. Barnwell.