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Black Heroes of Art

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.

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Romare Bearden, American Modernist. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 2011.

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The Romare Bearden Reader. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.

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Mary Schmidt Campbell. An American odyssey : the life and work of Romare Bearden. New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.

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Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2010.

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Adrienne L. Childs, Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, Phillips Collection, 2020.

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Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts. Berkeley : University of California, 1998.

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Figuring History: Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.

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Murrell, Denise. Posing Modernity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. 

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Le Modèle Noir de Géricault à Matisse, Musée d'Orsay, Paris: Flammarion 2019

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Muse: Mickalene Thomas: Photographs. New York, NY : Aperture, 2015.

 

Kerry James Marshall, Berlin: Phaidon 2017. 

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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.

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Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic. Brooklyn, New York : Brooklyn Museum in association with DelMonico Books & Prestel, 2015.

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To be continued...

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