Object Details
- Description
- A hard cover, string bound book. The front cover is green fabric with gold lettering. The lettering forms a half circle pattern and reads: [The Negro In Art]. The title page in black type reads: [The Negro In Art / A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art / Edited and Annotated By / Alain Locke / Author of “Negro Art: Past and Present”]. The page to the left of the title page contains a color depiction of a woman sitting down with her proper right hand resting against her face. A child hugs her waist. The caption underneath the depiction reads: [“Mother And Child. By Sargent Johnson, Albert W Bender Collection, San Francisco Museum of Art]. The interior pages, 224 in total, are white paper with black type.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Written by
- Alain LeRoy Locke, American, 1885 - 1954
- Published by
- Associates in Negro Folk Education, American, 1935 - 1942
- Date
- 1940
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Medium
- cloth on cardboard , paper (fiber product) and ink
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (Closed): 12 3/16 × 9 5/16 × 1 in. (31 × 23.7 × 2.5 cm)
- H x W x D (Open): 12 3/16 × 19 × 1 in. (31 × 48.3 × 2.5 cm)
- Type
- books
