Unknown Arts and Industries Building United States National Museum Harmon Foundation
Description
Historic Images of the SmithsonianA list of who's who of the artists featured in the American Negro Artists exhibit that opened on the ground floor of the U.S. National Museum Building on May 16, 1929. A traveling exhibition, the artwork was on display in Washington, DC, for twelve days. These artists, including Archibald Motley, Palmer Hayden, and Hale Woodruff, represented African American achievement and were the first representations of black life and culture that were partially controlled by African Americans themselves.Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 311, Box 35, Folder: 3Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Number Of Images: 4; Color: Color; Size: 8.5w X 11h; Type Of Image: Document; Medium: Paper
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Smithsonian InstitutionKeywords
- African American Art
- African Americans
- Art
- Art, American
- Artists
- Arts And Industries Building
- Exhibition Catalogs
- Exhibitions
- Harmon Foundation
- Hayden, Palmer C
- History
- Motley, Archibald John
- Painting
- Paintings And Sculpture By American Negro Artists At The National Gallery Of Art (Exhibition)
- Race Relations
- United States
- United States National Museum
- Woodruff, Hale