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Photo, Print, Drawing Negro: U.S.A. : a graphic history of the Negro people in America / with a foreword by Herbert Aptheker.

[ digital file from original, title page ]

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About this Item

Title

  • Negro: U.S.A. : a graphic history of the Negro people in America / with a foreword by Herbert Aptheker.

Summary

  • Print showing a clenched fist in the right corner and the names of several artists listed under the title.

Names

  • Workshop of Graphic Art (New York, N.Y.)

Created / Published

  • New York : The Workshop of Graphic Art, [1949]

Headings

  • -  African Americans--History
  • -  African Americans in art
  • -  African American art
  • -  Fists--1940-1950

Format Headings

  • Offset lithographs--1940-1950.
  • Title pages--1940-1950.

Genre

  • Title pages--1940-1950
  • Offset lithographs--1940-1950

Notes

  • -  "Workshop prints no. 2. The Graphic Workshop".
  • -  Artists: Leonard Baskin, Roy DeCarava, Antonio Frasconi, Robert Gwathmey, Bud Handelsman, Charles Keller, Louise Krueger, Jacob Landau, Al Lass, Jacob Lawrence, Jerry Martin, Leona Pierce, Jim Schlecker, Edward Walsh, Charles White.
  • -  Title from item.
  • -  LC Copy 1: Gift ; Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation; 2003; (DLC/PP - 2003:162.2018).
  • -  Additional Venues(s)/Dates: African-American Museum in Philadelphia; Detroit Institute of Art; Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Salem, NC; Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH; Georgia Museum of Art, Athen, GA.

Medium

  • 1 print : offset lithograph ; sheet 35.5 x 22.8 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • NE538.N5 W672 1949 Case Y [P&P] Copy 1

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020630051

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-68043 (digital file from original, title page)

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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  • Rights Advisory: Rights status not evaluated. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions...," https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/195_copr.html
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-68043 (digital file from original, title page)
  • Call Number: NE538.N5 W672 1949 Case Y [P&P] Copy 1
  • Access Advisory: ---

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Chicago citation style:

Workshop Of Graphic Art. Negro: U.S.A.: a graphic history of the Negro people in America / with a foreword by Herbert Aptheker. , 1949. [New York: The Workshop of Graphic Art] Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020630051/.

APA citation style:

Workshop Of Graphic Art. (1949) Negro: U.S.A.: a graphic history of the Negro people in America / with a foreword by Herbert Aptheker. , 1949. [New York: The Workshop of Graphic Art] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020630051/.

MLA citation style:

Workshop Of Graphic Art. Negro: U.S.A.: a graphic history of the Negro people in America / with a foreword by Herbert Aptheker. [New York: The Workshop of Graphic Art] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020630051/>.