Roll Call
200 Years of Black American Art
Will be published approx. on 15. September 2026
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-1-917273-19-0 (ISBN)
Description
The volume features over 250 artworks across various media, paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, quilts, and mixed-media works, by artists living and working both in Alabama, and across the wider United States, including David Driskell, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Robert S. Duncanson, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mary Frances Whitfield, Trena Banks, Purvis Young, Glenn Ligon, Edmonia Lewis, Lorna Simpson, Chakaia Booker, Sam Gilliam, Kerry James Marshall, Joshua Johnson, Nick Cave, Elizabeth Catlett, Amalia Amaki, and Carrie Mae Weems.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
290 colour illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 241 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-917273-19-0 (9781917273190)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Katelyn D. Crawford is The William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
Jade Powers is the Hugh Kaul Curator of Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
Kelli Morgan is the Founding Executive Director of the Black Artists Archive in Detroit
Imani Perry is the Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor in African & African American Studies and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Laura Woodard is librarian and archivist, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
Jade Powers is the Hugh Kaul Curator of Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
Kelli Morgan is the Founding Executive Director of the Black Artists Archive in Detroit
Imani Perry is the Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor in African & African American Studies and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Laura Woodard is librarian and archivist, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
Content
Director's Foreword-Graham C. Boettcher
Mayor's Preface-Randall L. Woodfin
Artist's Preface-Kerry James Marshall
Introduction-Jade Powers and Katelyn D. Crawford
Exhibitions to Acquisitions: Connecting the Works of Black American Artists-Laura C. Woodard
It's About Ideas: Reflections on the Art of Black Alabama-Imani Perry
Thinking Back, Thinking Black: Celebrating 75 Years of Art, Collecting, and Representation at the Birmingham Museum of Art-Kelli Morgan
Entries
Index of Works by Black American Artists in the Birmingham Museum of Art Collection
Selected Bibliography
Contributor Biographies
Index
Photography Credits
Mayor's Preface-Randall L. Woodfin
Artist's Preface-Kerry James Marshall
Introduction-Jade Powers and Katelyn D. Crawford
Exhibitions to Acquisitions: Connecting the Works of Black American Artists-Laura C. Woodard
It's About Ideas: Reflections on the Art of Black Alabama-Imani Perry
Thinking Back, Thinking Black: Celebrating 75 Years of Art, Collecting, and Representation at the Birmingham Museum of Art-Kelli Morgan
Entries
Index of Works by Black American Artists in the Birmingham Museum of Art Collection
Selected Bibliography
Contributor Biographies
Index
Photography Credits