The Exhibition

The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper

was organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA.

January 19 - March 5, 2008

 

This exhibition features sixty-nine works on paper by fifty-three African American artists. Selected from the collection Harman and Harriet Kelly, the works include drawings, etchings, lithographs, watercolors, pastels, gouaches, linocuts, woodcuts, and colorscreen prints. The majority of the works in this exhibition were produced during the 1930s and 1940s, a period that gave birth to a school of African American regionalism and black consciousness. The artwork portrays African American subjects in rural and urban settings, with an emphasis on community, labor, and family life during the Depression era. The exhibition also includes pieces depicting the political struggles of African Americans during the Civil Rights Movement, in the 1960s and early 1970s.



Sharecropper, Catlett, 1952, Two color linoleum cut

 

 

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