A Study of Negro Artists

⭐ Featured Review

"I once knew many of the artists shown here, since I read Charles Alston's survey of Black artists (published in 1943). That, alas, was half a century ago, and my memory is not great. We get to see many artists and their students at work in diverse media: sculpture, painting, murals, charcoals, prints, and crayons. It's all part of the Harlem Renaissance near the end of that twenty-year period in which Harlem became the cultural center of Black life in America. Men and women are depicted at work. Peculiarly, many of the men don't bother to put on a smock, but work in shirt, tie,..."