The Aaron Douglas Collection of works of art in the Amistad Research Center, now at Tulane University, includes works of art little known to scholars of American art. It is a collection of two hundred and seventy examples by black and minority artists, most dating from 1925 to 1954. Fifty-two of this number have been illustrated with several in color. There is no published catalog. Though individual works have been shown in specialized exhibitions, virtually none of this group has been included in standard survey books used in courses teaching American art history. The vitality of these works of art, the message they convey, should be included with the discipline of American art history The Aaron Douglas Collection represents a portion of a larger assemblage made by the Harmon Foundation of New York City. The details of the Collection's history are discussed in Chapter One Chapters Two and Three of this thesis provide a necessary foundation to the appreciation of the artists and their works. Several of these artists have slipped into obscurity. For that reason, background information about their times, the 20s and 30s, will perhaps serve to fill in some of the inherent gaps. Chapter Four gives a basic profile of each artist highlighting, whenever possible, pertinent information about them. The end of each profile contains catalog information for each of their pieces in the Collection / acase@tulane.edu
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TULANE/oai:http://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/:tulane_25317 |
| Date | January 1992 |
| Contributors | Vendryes, Margaret Rose (Author), Poesch, Jessie J (Thesis advisor) |
| Publisher | Tulane University |
| Source Sets | Tulane University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Access requires a license to the Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) database., Copyright is in accordance with U.S. Copyright law |
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