Description: The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art by Alain Locke First edition, first printing, signed presentation copy from the editor to Harlem Renaissance artist Allan R. Freelon Washington, D.C. Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1940. 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 Tanner, Hughie Lee-Smith and Jacob Lawrence.
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Author: Locke, Alain [Editor
Publisher: Associates in Negro Folk Education
Year Printed: 1940
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Signed
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
