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.