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Books About Yohan's Favorite African American Painters/Artists

From Yohan Smith, Rockridge Branch: I have been a SFMOMA museum guide for public and teen museum visitors for almost two decades and I wanted to share a few of my favorite African American Painters/artists with Oakland Public Library patrons in honor of Black Culture Fest 2022. 

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18 items

  • Jacob Lawrence

    the American Struggle

    BookSalem, MA : Peabody Essex Museum, 2019. — 759.13 LAWRENCE

  • Romare Bearden

    Collage of Memories

    Greenberg, Jan, 1942-
    BookNew York : Harry N. Abrams, 2003. — J BIO BEARDEN

  • Elizabeth Catlett

    An American Artist in Mexico

    Herzog, Melanie
    BookSeattle : University of Washington Press, c2000. — 730.92 CATLETT

  • Mark Bradford

    Bedford, Christopher
    BookColumbus, Ohio : Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University ; New Haven, Conn. : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2010. — 759.13 BRADFORD

  • The Great Migration

    An American Story

    Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-
    BookNew York : Museum of Modern Art ; [Washington, D.C.] : Phillips Collection ; New York : HarperCollins, c1993. — J 759.13 LAWRENCE

  • Jacob Lawrence

    Thirty Years of Prints (1963-1993) : a Catalogue Raisonne

    Nesbett, Peter T.
    BookSeattle : Francine Seders Gallery in association with University of Washington Press, c1994. — 759.91 LAWRENCE

  • Elizabeth Catlett

    in the Image of the People

    Herzog, Melanie
    BookChicago : Art Institute of Chicago ; New Haven : distributed by Yale University Press, c2005. — 704.0396 CATLETT

  • Romare Bearden

    His Life and Art

    Schwartzman, Myron
    BookNew York : H.N. Abrams, 1990. — 709.2 BEARDEN

  • Kerry James Marshall

    Mastry

    Marshall, Kerry James, 1955-
    BookChicago : Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago New York : Skira Rizzoli Publications, [2016] — 759.13 MARSHALL

  • Sargent Johnson

    African American Modernist

    LeFalle-Collins, Lizzetta
    BookSan Francisco, Calif. : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, c1998. — 759.13 JOHNSON

  • Martin Puryear

    Benezra, Neal David, 1953-
    BookChicago, Ill. : Art Institute of Chicago ; New York, N.Y. : Thames and Hudson, c1991. — 709.2 PURYEAR

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