African American artists
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Albert F. Sperath collection
Collection
Identifier: 709
Content Description
This collection documents the research conducted by Sperath to locate and document holdings of artwork by Ellis Wilson in private and institutional hands in preparation for a retrospective exhibition of Wilson’s work curated by Sperath. The exhibition, entitled "The Art of Ellis Wilson," traveled to select museums in Kentucky in 2000. A catalog was produced for the exhibition.Also included are three binders and five boxes of slides documenting artwork by Ellis Wilson. These...
Dates:
Other: 1952-2010
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Albert F. Sperath collection
William Edward Taylor papers
Collection
Identifier: 430
Content Description
The papers of painter, sculptor, and photographer William Edward Taylor includes correspondence, honors and awards, programs, and a videocassette of a 1983 interview with Taylor on WFYI (PBS) in Indianapolis. Correspondents include: Alvin R. Bergeron, Donald Elder, Susan L. Cahn (of the Jewish Community Center of Indianapolis), and Donald F. Rees (Lay President of the Lutheran Church Council). Additional materials include research for the exhibition and publication entitled "A...
Dates:
Other: 1900-1999
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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William Edward Taylor papers
Yvonne and Curtis Tucker papers
Collection
Identifier: 661
Content Description
Yvonne and Curtis Tucker were a husband and wife team of nationally-known ceramists. Curtis Tucker, originally a painter, became interested in ceramics when he saw the work of his future wife Yvonne Edwards at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was born in Austin, Texas, but raised in San Diego, California. He passed in 1992 after working with his wife for over twenty years. Yvonne Tucker is a professor of art at Florida A&M in Tallahassee. She is a ceramist and sculptor...
Dates:
Other: 1960-2002
Hale Woodruff letters
Collection
Identifier: 2469
Scope and Contents
The Hale Woodruff letters consist of 30 handscript letters, dating from 1973 to 1978, from African American artist Hale Woodruff to his former student Mary Parks Washington. In 1973, Washington wrote to Woodruff to request one of his prints; their correspondence developed over the next five years into a a business relationship, with Washington acting as Woodruff's West Coast agent for sales of his prints. Much of the correspondence concerns the sale of Woodruff's prints and Washington's role...
Dates:
Created: 1973-1978; Other: Date acquired: 08/07/1991
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Hale Woodruff letters
Hale Woodruff papers
Collection
Identifier: 395
Scope and Contents
The papers of Hale A. Woodruff document Woodruff's life and career as an artist, educator, and art collector. The collection includes correspondence, invitations, writings by and about Woodruff, photographs, greeting cards with art by Woodruff, and collected items. Correspondence includes incoming and outgoing letters filed in chronological order, dated from 1927 to 1985. Posthumous letters are mostly from or to his wife, Theresa. A small portion of the correspondence is with Woodruff's...
Dates:
Created: 1865-1985
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Hale Woodruff papers