Aaron Douglas
Into Bondage 1936
Oil on canvas
153.4 x 153.7 cm
In the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
Museum Purchase and Partial Gift of Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.
The Evans-Tibbs Collection
Sir Jacob Epstein
Portrait Bust of Paul Robeson (1898-1979) 1928
Bronze
34.5 x 21.5 x 29.5 cm
York City Art Gallery, UK (purchased 1955)
© estate of the artist, 1997
William H. Johnson
Self-Portrait with Bandana 1935-38
Oil on burlap
63.8 x 53.5 cm
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, USA
Gift of the Harmon Foundation
Web address http://www.nmaa.si.edu.
Loïs Mailou Jones
Les Fetiches 1938
Oil on linen
53.3 x 64.7 cm
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, USA
Museum Purchase made possible by Mrs. N. H. Green, Dr. R. Harlan, and Francis
Musgrave
© the artist
Web address http://www.nmaa.si.edu.
Jacob Lawrence
Dust to Dust (The Funeral) 1938
Gouache on paper
42.2 x 27.9 cm
Courtesy of the Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, USA
© the artist
Ronald C. Moody
Midonz (Goddess of Transmutation) 1937
Elm
72 x 38 x 44.5 cm
The Artist's Collection, courtesy of Cynthia Moody
© Cynthia Moody
Archibald J. Motley Jr
Blues 1929
Oil on canvas
80 x 100.3 cm
Collection of Archie Motley and Valerie Gerrard Browne
© Archie Motley
Winold Reiss
Langston Hughes (1902-67) 1925
Pastel on board
76.3 x 54.9 cm
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
Gift of Tjark Reiss, in memory of his father, Winold Reiss
© Reiss 1997
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University Press of Mississippi, 1995).
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1996.
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