Challenge of the Modern: African-American Artists 1925-1945

About this book

This catalog from a 2003 exhibit at the Studio Museum in Harlem-"one of the most ambitious shows this museum has produced ... and also one of the more stimulating " according to the New York Times-surveys 102 works by African American artists from the mid-20th century. Contrasting their development with that of their white contemporaries who were progressing through cubism surrealism and abstract impressionism in the modernist landscape it examines works by Romare Bearden Norman Lewis Jacob Lawrence Wifredo Lam Elizabeth Catlett Lois Mailou Jones Hale Woodruff and James VanDerZee.