Full Description
The volume features over 250 artworks across various media, paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, quilts, and mixed-media works, by artists living and working both in Alabama, and across the wider United States, including David Driskell, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Robert S. Duncanson, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mary Frances Whitfield, Trena Banks, Purvis Young, Glenn Ligon, Edmonia Lewis, Lorna Simpson, Chakaia Booker, Sam Gilliam, Kerry James Marshall, Joshua Johnson, Nick Cave, Elizabeth Catlett, Amalia Amaki, and Carrie Mae Weems.
Contents
Director's Foreword—Graham C. Boettcher
Mayor's Preface—Randall L. Woodfin
Artist's Preface—Kerry James Marshall
Introduction—Jade Powers and Katelyn D. Crawford
Exhibitions to Acquisitions: Connecting the Works of Black American Artists—Laura C. Woodard
It's About Ideas: Reflections on the Art of Black Alabama—Imani Perry
Thinking Back, Thinking Black: Celebrating 75 Years of Art, Collecting, and Representation at the Birmingham Museum of Art—Kelli Morgan
Entries
Index of Works by Black American Artists in the Birmingham Museum of Art Collection
Selected Bibliography
Contributor Biographies
Index
Photography Credits
