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(ART.) MOORLAND, DR. JESSE E.
Catalogue of Exhibition by Negro
Artists, Held at the New York Public Library.
8 pages. Tall 4to, original printed dec-
orative tan and red stiff wrappers.
AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY
.
New York: NYPL, 1922
[1,000/1,500]
A RARE AND IMPORTANT CATALOGUE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS
,
THE SECOND SUCH
EXHIBIT EVER ASSEMBLED
.
Art historian James Amos Porter called it “the first worthy chronological
display of modern Negro artists.” Included in the exhibit were Meta Vaux Fuller, James Lesesne
Wells, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Albert Smith, Elmer Stoner, George Young, and others. In 1920,
Ernestine Rose, a white woman had come to work at the 135th Street branch of the New York Public
Library. She almost immediately moved to integrate the staff, hiring Catherine Latimer the first
African-American librarian, and later Sadie Peterson Delaney, also African-American. Together they
brought the library into the lives of the community at a time when the Harlem Renaissance was
beginning to take shape. OCLC locates only microfiche copies.
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(ART.) SLATER, VAN.
Color monotype on BFK Rives wove paper.
20
1
/
2
x 16
1
/
2
inches. Signed in pencil, lower right.
Np, circa 1980
[1,000/1,500]
This is only the second work of this printmaker to come to auction. The first was a drawing in the
Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company Collection sold at Swann Galleries on 4 October 2007.
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