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List of illustrations

  • Ivory Coast mask from the Barnes Foundation Collection
  • Portrait of Roland Hayes
  • Cover of Booker T. Washington, A New Negro for a New Century
  • W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
  • Alain Locke
  • Zora Neale Hurston
  • Cover of a theater program for a 1916 production of Israel Zangwill's play The Melting Pot (1908)
  • Elise J. McDougald
  • Two Public School Teachers
  • Octoroon Girl, 1925
  • The Sun God
  • Mary Beattie Brady (seated left) and Laura Wheeler Waring (seated right) at a portrait exhibition, Roosevelt House
  • Richard Wright lecturing at Rankin Memorial Chapel, Howard University
  • Cover art for Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to Younger Negro Artists
  • Harlem Girl with Blanket
  • Cover art for Color: Unfinished Business of Democracy
  • Portrait of James Lesesne Wells
  • Blondiau-Theatre Arts Collection of Primitive African Art exhibition brochure
  • Max Weber
  • Alain Leroy Locke with Portrait of Dancer Harald Kreutzberg by Richmond Barthé, South Side Community Art Center, Chicago
  • Still Life with African Statuette
  • Business card, Maison Walschot, Brussels
  • Members of the British Expedition to Benin City
  • Benin pendant mask, 16th century
  • Spread showing Zouenouia carving, 13th century (left), and Amedeo Modigliani, Head (1915) (right)
  • Statuary in Wood by African Savages: The Root of Modern Art
  • Installation view, African Hall, American Museum of Natural History
  • Installation view, Primitive Negro Art, Chiefly From the Belgian Congo
  • Installation view of Whitney Studio Club Exhibition Recent Paintings by Pablo Picasso and Negro Sculpture
  • Cover of Blondiau-Theatre Arts Collection of Primitive African Art exhibition catalogue
  • Blondiau-Theatre Arts Collection of Primitive African Art exhibition catalogue, featuring Bakuba fetishes (left) and miniature ivory pendant mask (right)
  • Blondiau-Theatre Arts Collection of Primitive African Art exhibition catalogue, featuring Bushongo geometric pattern vases (left) and a Bakuba carved comb and ancient grinding mortar (right)
  • Six West African Figures
  • Interior, Arensberg's Apartment, New York
  • Room 22, south wall, Barnes Foundation Collection, 1925
  • Rise, Shine, for Thy Light Has Come
  • 135th Street, Schomburg Room with readers
  • Heritage
  • Bapeade Combs
  • Bakaya Ancestor Statue
  • Hieratic Heads
  • Still Life
  • Still Life
  • Negro Masks
  • Self-Portrait
  • Fétiche et Fleurs
  • Vanitas Still Life with Bouquet and Skull
  • Wreaths in Tribute
  • Talking Skull
  • Les Fétiches
  • Black Manhattan
  • Queen Mother Pendant Mask: Iyoba
  • Richmond Barthé (left) and Jacob Lawrence (right) registering at Contemporary Negro Art
  • Boys and sculpture, Contemporary Negro Art exhibition, The Baltimore Museum of Art
  • The Family
  • Congolese Woman
  • Anna Washington Derry
  • Negro Head
  • Into Bondage
  • The Negro in Art, pages 114 and 115
  • The Negro in Art, pages 164 and 165
  • The Negro in Art, page 144
  • The Negro in Art, pages 146 and 147
  • André Malraux and his Imaginary Museum
  • The Negro in Art, page 223
  • Illustrations removed from magazines and catalogues, featuring an Ogoue fetish figure
  • Illustrations removed from magazines and catalogues, featuring a Kasai cup, box, and ceremonial drinking cup
  • Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, Panel 8
  • The Negro in Art, page 212
  • Dan mask, Ivory Coast, Guillaume Collection (recto)
  • Dan mask, Ivory Coast, Guillaume Collection (verso)
  • Installation view of the exhibition African Negro Art
  • Installation view of the exhibition Understanding African Negro Sculpture
  • An assemblage of objects included in the exhibition African Negro Art
  • Alain Locke's R Street apartment interior, showing Kota reliquary figure and Bushongo axes
  • Alain Locke's R Street apartment interior, showing a portion of Botticelli's The Birth of Venus and a Bakuba cup on top of Nancy Cunard's Negro Anthology (1934) on the piano
  • Influences, Muses, and Native Forms, from the Art of the Negro series
  • Art of the Negro: Dissipation
  • Art of the Negro: Muses
  • Profile/Part II, The Thirties: Artist with Painting and Model
  • Illustrations removed from magazines and catalogues, featuring a Benin flute player, c. 1550
  • Profile/Part II, The Thirties: Artist with Painting and Model, detail
  • The Painter's Studio
  • The Painter's Studio: An Allegory, detail of Charles Baudelaire reading with Jeanne Duval painted out at his left
  • Homage to Nina Simone
  • Untitled (Maid from Olympia)
  • Duval et Dumas: Dumas
  • Looking for Langston (Looking for Langston Vintage Series)
  • Portrait of Tom Whiskey (M. Julien Zaire)
  • Palmer Hayden (left) and Beauford Delaney (right) giving a painting demonstration, Washington Square
  • Board of Directors of the Encyclopedia of the Negro
  • Alain Locke, England
  • Richmond Barthé at Ioläus, Jamaica
  • Ebony and Ivory
  • F. Holland Day with Model
  • The Ethiopian
  • Nude Study of Thomas E. McKeller
  • Beau of the Ball
  • Cover art for Charles S. Johnson, ed., Ebony and Topaz: A Collectanea
  • Illustration in Countee Cullen, Color
  • Drawings for Mulattoes – Number 1
  • Illustration in Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to Younger Negro Artists
  • Allen Meadows Kissing a Mask
  • Hugh Laing Kissing a Mask
  • Allen Meadows with Mask
  • Boy with Flute
  • Jamaican Man in Profile (Henry Thomas)
  • Harlem
  • Market Day
  • Kenneth McPherson & Jimmie Daniels with Barthé's head of Daniels
  • Féral Benga, Senegalese Dancer
  • Féral Benga in the Folies Bergère
  • Féral Benga as an angel in Le Sang d'un Poète (The Blood of a Poet)
  • Féral Benga
  • Billie Holiday [holding a sculpted African Head]
  • Richard Wright
  • Dark Rapture (James Baldwin)
  • Portrait of Huey Newton
  • Fast Eddie
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Description: Alain Locke and the Visual Arts
Alain Locke (1885–1954) was an interdisciplinary polymath. The editor of The New Negro anthology, whose cultural criticism encompassed art, literature, music, and theater...
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In an exquisite sepia portrait, we see printmaker James Lesesne Wells looking intently at the Bakuba ceremonial cup he holds in his hands...
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In 1940 Locke published The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art. The first section, “The Negro as Artist,” sets the achievements of African American artists in world-historical context...
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Was Locke’s homosexuality a factor in his commitment to the visual arts? In his 2001 essay “‘Outing’ Alain Locke,” Leonard Harris argued, “We are misled by prevailing scholarship to believe that Locke’s sexuality was irrelevant to his intellectual and personal history...
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