Black Printmakers and the WPA : Leslie King-Hammond 1989
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Scarce Guide to Depression Era Black Printmakers Who Worked With The Works Progress Administration or WPA
King-Hammond, Leslie. Black Printmakers and the W.P.A. The Lehman College Art Gallery. February 23 – June 6, 1989. Lehman College Art Gallery. Bronx, NY. 1989.
Guide to 1989 exhibit of art by black printmakers working with the Depression era Works Progress Administration (WPA) with particular focus on artists based in Harlem and those from the Karamu house community in Cleveland, including, Dox Thrash (inventor of Carborundum printing), Claude Clark, Raymond Steth, Samuel Brown, Charles Alston, Wilmer Jennings, and Hale Woodruff.
Written by author, artist, historian and curator Leslie King-Hammond, King-Hammond would go on to become the founding director of the Maryland Institute College of Art’s Center for Race and Culture in addition to serving as MICA’s dean.
[36]pp. 8vo. Staple bound in woven paper wraps. Minor soiling to wraps. Corners bumped. Rubbing to text block. Pages clean. Includes 19 plates. Very good.
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