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The Family in Art and Material Culture

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 91.02.03

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Interpreting Selected Works of Art from the 20th Century African-American Experience

Christina Frodsham

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Figures

Motley, Archibald, Jr. Mending Socks , 1924. North Carolina Museum of Art.

———. Old Snuff Dipper , 1928. National Archives, Washington, D.C. (Harmon Foundation).

———. Blues, 1929. Collection of the Artist.

———. Parisian Street Scene , 1929. Schomburg Collection. New York Public Library.

Johnson, William H. Still Life , 1921-26. Washington, D.C. National Museum of American Art.

———. Self-Portrait , 1929. Washington, D.C. National Museum of American Art.

———. Harbor Under the Midnight Sun , 1935-38. Washington, D.C. National Museum of American Art.

———. Mt. Calvary , 1939. Washington, D.C. National Museum of American Art.

———. Chain Gang , 1939-40. Washington, D.C. National Museum of American Art.

———. I Baptize Thee , 1940. Washington, D.C. National Museum of American Art.

———. Woman Ironing , 1941. Washington, D.C. National Museum of American Art.

Beardon, Romare. The Prevalence of Ritual: Baptism , 1964. Washington, D.C. Hirshhorn.

———. Patchwork Quilt , 1970. New York. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

———. She-Ba , 1976. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.

———. Visitor , 1976. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Doerer, Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

———. Sunset Limited , 1978. Collection of Ute and Gerhard Stebich, Plainfield, Massachusetts.

Lawrence, Jacob. Toussaint L’Ouverture series, 1938. No. 26 (Sword Fight). Nashville, Tennessee. Fisk University.

———. Migration the Negro series, 1940-41: no. 15. Another cause was lynching, Washington, D.C. Phillips Collection.

———. Ironers , 1943. New York. Brooklyn Museum.

———. Parade , 1960. Washington, D.C. Hirahhorn Museum.

———. The Studio , 1977. New York. Brooklyn Museum.

———. Hiroshima Series, 1983. No. 7: Boy with Kite . Collection of the Artist.

Ringgold, Faith. U. S. Postage Stamp commemorating The Advent of Black Power , 1967.

———. Weeping Woman #2 , 1973. Yale Color. Dup. Ann Gibson.

———. Woman on the Bridge series, 1988. Dancing on George Washington Bridge . New York. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

———. Woman on the Bridge series, 1988. The Winner . New York. Solomon R. Guggenhelm Museum.

———. Bitter rest Part I: Love in the Schoolyard . 1988. Yale Color. Dup. Ann Gibson.

———. Bitter rest Part IV: The Letter . 1988. Dup. Ann Gibson.

Saar, Betye. Nine Mojo Secrets , 1971. Collection of O. Adderley, Los Angeles.

———. Spiritcatcher , 1976-77. Yale Color. Exhibit Catalogue, “Rituals” Studio Museum in Harlem.

———. The Birds and the Beasts Were There , 1976. Washington, D.C. Hirshhorn.

———. The Guardian: Water , 1977. Yale Color. “Rituals” Studio Museum in Harlem.

Cornell, Joseph. A Swan Lake for Tamara Toumanova , 1946. Private collection.

———. Lunar Space Object , late fifties. Collection of R. and D. Brown, New York.

———. Medici Slot Machine (no date). Artist’s collection.

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