{"product_id":"to-conserve-a-legacy-american-art-from-historically-black-colleges-and-universities","title":"To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo Conserve a Legacy documents an outstanding sampling of paintings  prints  drawings  photographs  and sculptures owned by Clark Atlanta University  Fisk University  Hampton University  Howard University  North Carolina Central University  and Tuskegee University. Many of this nations Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have amassed significant collections of American art and founded galleries and museums on their campuses. These collections provide a rich resource for the study of African American art  yet many also possess a diverse array of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art. To Conserve a Legacy documents an outstanding sampling of paintings  prints  drawings  photographs  and sculptures owned by Clark Atlanta University  Fisk University  Hampton University  Howard University  North Carolina Central University  and Tuskegee University.This book serves as the catalog for a major exhibition and conservation project organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem  in association with the Williamstown Art Conservation Center and the six participating HBCUs. The book contains a profile of each university collection  color reproductions of many artworks included in the exhibition  biographical information on all the represented artists  and documentation of the conservation and care practices helping to preserve the art for future generations. Two major essays place the HBCU art collections and this collaborative project in a historical context and develop six themes around which the exhibition was organized: Forever Free: Emancipation Visualized; The First Americans; Training the Head  the Hand  and the Heart; The American Portrait Gallery; American Expressionism; and Modern Lives  Modern Impulses. The artists include Romare Bearden  John Biggers  Elizabeth Catlett  Charles Demuth  Arthur Dove  Marsden Hartley  William H. Johnson  Jacob Lawrence  Edmonia Lewis  Archibald Motley  Georgia OKeeffe  Horace Pippin  P. H. Polk  Alfred Stieglitz  Henry Ossawa Tanner  Doris Ulmann  Carl Van Vechten  Thomas Waterman  James Weeks  Charles White  and many others. The book also contains forty-two entry essays by American scholars on many of the individual artworks. The exhibition was co-curated by Richard Powell  Chairman of the Art and Art History Department at Duke University  and Jock Reynolds  Director of the Yale University Art Gallery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966454329397,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262661519","price":38.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262661515.jpg?v=1770562684","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/to-conserve-a-legacy-american-art-from-historically-black-colleges-and-universities","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}