Suggested Readings
A Growing List of Sources on Black Artists and Models,
1800-Present
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, The Civil Rights Era, and Beyond, Washington, DC : Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2012.
African American Masters: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003.
Romare Bearden, American Modernist. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2011.
The Romare Bearden Reader. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
Mary Schmidt Campbell. An American odyssey : the life and work of Romare Bearden. New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.
Adrienne L. Childs, Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, Phillips Collection, 2020.
Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts. Berkeley : University of California, 1998.
Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.
Murrell, Denise. Posing Modernity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.
Le Modèle Noir de Géricault à Matisse, Musée d'Orsay, Paris: Flammarion 2019
Muse: Mickalene Thomas: Photographs. New York, NY : Aperture, 2015.
Kerry James Marshall, Berlin: Phaidon 2017.
John W. Monroe, Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019.
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, New York : D.A.P/Distributed Art Publishers Inc, 2017.
Amy Sherald. Saint Louis, Missouri : Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2018.
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic. Brooklyn, New York : Brooklyn Museum in association with DelMonico Books & Prestel, 2015.
To be continued...
