The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art

by Alain LeRoy Locke

2021 Reprint of the 1940 Edition. Profusely Illustrated. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. A major document of African American Art up to 1940. With copious notes and artist biographies. Illustrated by Plates of the works of Juan Pareja -- Sebastian Gomez -- Joshua Johnston -- Robert S. Duncanson -- Edward M. Bannister -- Edmonia Lewis -- William Simpson -- Henry Ossawa Tanner -- William A. Harper -- Edwin A. Harleston -- Wm. Edouard Scott -- William M. Farrow -- Pastor Argudin y Pedroso -- Henry B. Jones -- Meta Warrick Fuller -- May Howard Jackson -- Sargent Johnson -- N. Elizabeth Prophet -- Laura Wheeler Waring -- John W. Hardrick -- Archibald J. Motley -- Palmer Hayden -- William A. Cooper -- Allan R. Freelon -- Alexander A. Smith -- Malvin Gray Johnson -- Aaron Douglas -- Hale A. Woodruff -- Dox Thrash -- Horace Pippin -- William Edmonson -- Leslie G. Bolling -- Augusta Savage -- Richmond Barthe -- Ronald Moody -- Charles Alston -- Francisco Lord. Teodoro Ramos-Blanco -- Lillian Dorsey -- Joseph Delaney -- Ramon Loy -- Alberto Pena -- Elton Fax -- James A. Porter -- Florence Purviance -- Lois Mailou Jones -- Robert S. Pious -- Earle W. Richardson -- Charles Alston -- Romare Bearden -- Rex Gorleigh -- William H. Johnson -- Allan R. Crite -- Samuel J. Brown -- James Lesesne Wells -- Ernest Crichlow -- Georgette Seabrook -- Charles Sebree -- Vertis Hayes -- Gwendolyn Bennett -- Charles Sallee -- John C. Lutz -- Edward L. Loper -- John C. Lutz -- Ronald Jospeh -- Wm. Carter -- Norman Lewis -- Albert Wells -- Earl Walker -- Robert Blackburn -- Charles Davis -- Walter Ellison -- Henry Avery -- Eldzier Cortor -- Elba Lightfoot -- Samuel Countee -- Robert Neal -- Lamar Weaver -- Wm. Hayden -- Fred Flemister -- John Carlis -- Elizabeth Catlett -- Wm. Artis -- Joseph Kersey -- Henry Bannarn -- Elmer Simms Campbell -- Bernard Goss -- Wilmer Jennings -- Ernest Crichlow -- Hughie Lee-Smith -- Charles White -- Marvin Smith -- Wm. Carter -- Hale Woodruff -- Clarence Lawson -- William E. Smith -- Charles Alston -- Hughie Lee-Smith -- Jacob Lawrence.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

American educator and writer Alain LeRoy Locke, whose include Four Negro Poets (1927) and Negro Art: Past and Present (1936), championed the Harlem renaissance.

People best remember this philosopher as the chief interpreter. Harvard University in 1907 graduated Locke, a Phi Beta Kappa and the first black Rhodes scholar. He studied at Oxford and the University of Berlin and then received a Philosophiae Doctor in philosophy from Harvard in 1918. Aesthetics strongly concerned this humanist. His philosophy, cultural pluralism, emphasized the determining of values, most especially the respect for the uniqueness of each personality, to guide human conduct and interrelationships.

Locke taught at Howard University in District of Columbia for nearly forty years.