first edition
1933 · New York
by (Harmon Foundation) GILES, Howard
New York: Harmon Foundation Incorporated, 1933. First edition. Softcover. 55 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran February 20 through March 4, 1933. Features text by Howard Giles. Includes a checklist, brief biographies and illustrations of works by : Leslie Garland Bolling, Sargent Johnson, William Arthur Cooper, Teodoro Ramos Blanco, James Lesene Wells, William Edouard Scott, Ellis Wilson, Archie Joseph Jones, Samuel Albert Countee, Richmond Barthe, and numerous others. An ex-library copy with marks to the covers and first two pages but otherwise free of marks and with some tape repairs and other wear. Despite the litany of flaws a solid reference copy of this important and early look at African American art. (Inventory #: 205940)