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DILLARD UNIVERSITY.
The Arts Quarterly.
Volume I, Numbers 1 and 4.
Illustrated. Folio, original printed wrappers; some soiling to the covers; discoloration to rear
cover of Number 1.
New Orleans, April-June 1937 and January-March 1938
[400/600]
The Arts Quarterly was a very ambitious magazine dedicated to music and drama at Dillard
University. It was paid for by a gift of $25,000 from the General Education Board to the
Departments of Drama and Music. William Stuart Nelson, president of Dillard, says in his
Editorial, “It is only human to grow cynical with repeated failures and the ghosts of Fire, Harlem,
Reflexus, Black Opals, and others. . . .and yet we offer The Arts Quarterly.” The Arts Quarterly was
definitely patterned on the model of those others, and outlasted them, but not by very much. The last
issue was March/June of 1939. Melvin Tolson’s “Harlem” appears in the first issue. Danky 510.
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HARDISON, INGE.
B. Banneker, 1731 1806.
Plaster bust of the
astronomer/surveyor, 8
7
⁄
8
x 5
1
⁄
2
inches at the base; “anodized” finish with title deeply
engraved into the front of the base; a couple of barely perceptible tiny nicks here and
there; signature of artist on back of bust.
Np, Signed Ingle Hardison, 1968 on the back of the bust
[800/1,200]
AN UNUSUAL VERSION
, not appearing quite like the normal copies made for the Old Taylor
Distillery Company’s Giants in History series. Notably, Hardison has carved “1731 B. BAN-
NEKER 1806” onto the front of the base in large
1
/
2
inch tall letters; the underside of the base is a
piece of thick leather, and the face of the subject looks slightly different as well. We have no explana-
tion as to why this piece appears this way.
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HATHAWAY, ISAAC SCOTT.
Booker T. Washington.
Plaster cast statue with
bronze finish, 11 inches high including base, copyright statement on back.
Washington, 1900 copyright
[600/900]
Isaac Scott Hathaway (1872-1967) was an African American artist who worked in various media,
including ceramics. He taught at the University of Arkansas before moving to Tuskegee. He was the
first African American to design a U.S. coin, the fifty cent piece bearing the face of Booker T.
Washington.
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