Exhibition catalogue on black American artists in the 1970’s added to the Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Book Room collection
The latest acquisition in the Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Book Room is Jubilee: Afro-American Artists on Afro-America, which documents a Museum of Fine Arts, Boston exhibit mounted during the nation’s bicentennial celebrations. The author states, “Jubilee…sought to capture the flavor of black life in America through art, introducing its bittersweet dimensions, its joys and tragedies, and more than anything else, introducing its triumphant spirit and its fathomless creativity.” Artists as diverse as Romare Bearden, Camille Billops, Barkley Hendricks, Archibald Motley, Faith Ringgold, and Charles Searles interpret 20th century black life in figurative work with themes “taken from blues and jazz lyrics, and black poetry.”
Patrons may contact the William R. Jenkins Library staff at [email protected] to schedule a viewing.
[Pictured above: Wrapping it up at the LaFayette by Romare Bearden. ]