Andrew Wyeth: Dry Brush and Pencil Drawings by Wyeth, Andrew; Hofer, Philp (foreword); Mongan, Agnes (intro) - 1968

Fogg Art Museum , 1963-07-01. 4th printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 11x8x0. [From the library of Dr. Ralph Gomes, Howard University.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket with loss. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Gift inscription on paste down on front end page. <br> Dr. Gomes was a professor at Howard University for 49 years in sociology and criminology. He was also a former Olympic athlete, representing Guyana in the 1960 Rome summer Olympics. Besides his scholarly work, Gomes was active in the black liberation movement. He had an impressive and deep collection of black art, historical advertising and iconography that spoke of the passage of black people and how they sought to record their life stories. His collection spanned from slavery, to antebellum life, to Jim Crow, to the Harlem Renaissance, to sport, to the civil rights movement.