Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Fine, Ruth, 1941-
2. Acton, David
3. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, host institution
4. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, host institution
5. Chicago Cultural Center, host institution

Description

1. 286 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 29 cm

Alternative title

1. Art of Norman Lewis

Subject

1. Lewis, Norman, 1909-1979 -- Exhibitions
2. African American painters -- Exhibitions
3. African American artists -- Exhibitions
4. Painting, Abstract -- United States -- Exhibitions
5. Harlem Renaissance -- Exhibitions
6. Abstract impressionism
7. Black author

Contents

1. Preface / David C. Driskell -- The spiritual in the material / Ruth Fine -- Drawings and paintings on paper -- Jammin' at the press / David Acton -- Prints checklist / David Acton and Ruth Fine -- Lewis on Lewis : on teaching, on art--Susan Stedman commentary -- Beyond category : before Afrofuturism there was Norman Lewis / Jeffrey C. Stewart -- The presence of Norman Lewis / Jacqueline Francis -- One world or none : hints of the future in Norman Lewis's abstract expressionism / Andrianna Campbell -- Norman Lewis : presence and absence in the exhibition history, 1933-1980 / Helen M. Shannon.

Call number

1. Sc+ F 15-431

Note

1. "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Procession : The Art of Norman Lewis, presented at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, November 13, 2015-April 3, 2016; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, June 4-August 21, 2016; Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois, September 17, 2016-January 8, 2017."--Colophon.
2. "This ... catalogue accompanies the first major museum retrospective of the painter Norman Lewis ... the sole African-American artist of his generation who became commiteed to issues of abstraction at the start of his career and continued to explore them over its entire trajectory."--Jacket flap.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-279) and index.

Local note

1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Author

1. Lewis, Norman, 1909-1979, artist.

Title

1. Procession : the art of Norman Lewis / edited by Ruth Fine ; with contributions by David Acton [and five others].

Publisher

1. Philadelphia : Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ; [Berkeley] : University of California Press, [2015]

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-279) and index.

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Fine, Ruth, 1941- editor.
2. Acton, David, author.
3. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, host institution.
4. Amon Carter Museum of American Art, host institution.
5. Chicago Cultural Center, host institution.

LCCN

1. 2015937888

ISBN

1. 0520288009
2. 9780520288003

Research call number

1. Sc+ F 15-431