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Roll Call: Two Hundred Years of Black American Art
Hardcover
Art HistoryAmerican Art - African American & BlackGeneral Art
Publisher Price: $54.95
ISBN13: 9781917273190
Publisher: Giles
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 432
Weight: 5.55
Height: 1.40 Width: 9.70 Depth: 11.20
Language: English
Substantial book is a unique exploration of a major collection of art by Black American and African American artists, comprising some 1,000 works by more than 200 individuals.
Over 55 years, a museum in the American South has built one of the nation's most significant collections of Black American art. This new publication brings together every Black American artist represented in the Birmingham Museum of Art, spanning the early 19th century to the present day. The volume features over 250 artworks across various media--paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, quilts and mixed-media works--by artists living and working both in Alabama and across the United States.
Artists featured include David Driskell, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Robert S. Duncanson, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mary Frances Whitfield, Trena Banks, Purvis Young, Glenn Ligon, Edmonia Lewis, Lorna Simpson, Chakaia Booker, Sam Gilliam, Kerry James Marshall, Joshua Johnson, Nick Cave, Elizabeth Catlett, Amalia Amaki and Carrie Mae Weems.
Publication accompanies an exhibition marking the Birmingham Museum of Art, AL's 75th Anniversary celebrations.
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