The Negro in Art by Locke, Alain - 1940: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and the Negro Theme in Art

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Washington, DC: Associates In Negro Folk, 1940. library edition, first printing. Hardcover. VG-, age toning to cloth and inner paste-downs. a tight and clean copy otherwise. Green cloth with gilt lettering and design on front cover (fading). 224 pp. 1 color, numerous bw plates. This volume is organized in three sections: Section I, The Negro As Artist, with 219 bw plates; Section II, The Negro In Art, with 106 bw plates; and Section III, The Ancestral Arts, with 44 bw plates. Each section is accompanied by very useful biographical notes on included artists. Very rare early study of this topic. Color plate missing from center (should be facing page 124).

Washington, D.C.: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1940. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Signed by Alain Locke and inscribed to "an old friend," Allan R. Freelon on the front free endpaper. Freelon (1895-1960) was a prominent Harlem Renaissance artist, pioneering educator, and civil rights activist. 224 pp. with color frontispiece "Mother and Child" by Sargeant Johnson and 4 pp. color insert "The Amistad Murals" tipped in facing p, 124. Bound in publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with darkened spine and edges with light soiling overall. Extremities lightly worn with minor foxing to endsheets. Faint toning to edges of textblock. No jacket, likely as issued. An important association between Locke ("Dean" of the Harlem Renaissance and popularizer of African American art) and Freelon on the first serious book-length study of Black artists. Two of Freelon's Impressionist-style paintings are featured in this work alongside work by Edmonia Lewis, Henry Ossawa… Read More