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. Many of this nation's 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 O'Keeffe, 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.
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