2. Kymberly N. Pinder, Assistant Professor of art history at the School of the Art Institute, has initiated research on this topic.
3. For more information on this exhibition, see Lisa Meyerowitz, "The Negro in Art Week: Defining the 'New Negro' Through Art Exhibition"African American Review 31 (1996), pp. 75?9.
4. For more information on this exhibition, see Schulman essay (note 33).
5. A small sculpture by the nineteenth-century artist Edmonia Lewis was in the museum's collection for many years, displayed in the lobby of the Goodman Theatre; its present location is unknown. I am grateful to Daniel Schulman for informing me about the second Tanner painting and the Lewis sculpture. The Art Institute's interest in Tanner actually dates back to 1896, when his Daniel in the Lions?Den (1895; present location unknown) was included in that year's annual "American Exhibition" along with the portrait of the artist by his close friend Herman Dudley Murphy now in the Art Institute's collection. I am grateful to Andrew J. Walker for this information.
6. The Art Institute of Chicago, Martin Puryear, exh. cat. by Neal David Benezra with an essay by Robert Storr (1991). Puryear is represented in the Art Institute by five works.
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The city of Chicago, particularly its South Side, has rivaled Harlem as an important locus for African American culture. While it has been rightfully celebrated for its contributions to jazz, Chicago has also been a flourishing center for the visual arts. This book reflects the growing collection of art by African Americans in the city's leading art organization, The Art Institute of Chicago. Intended to provide an overview of the concerns surrounding race in art, to celebrate the achievements of a number of gifted African American artists, and to provide a broad and multifaceted view of American art and culture, this book includes four intriguing essays and a stunning portfolio of twenty-nine images illustrated in full color, with informative, brief entries examining individual works. An examination of a striking daguerreotype of Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass is followed by two essays discussing the work of seminal, Chicago-based artists: the complex, engaging paintings of Archibald J. Motley, Jr., and the impassioned sculpture of Marion Perkins. The fourth essay looks at recent, mixed-media work by Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, and Willie Robert Middlebrook. The contributors to this publication include Art Institute of Chicago curators Colin L. Westerbeck and Daniel Schulman; and scholars Andrea D. Barnwell, Kirsten P. Buick, Amy M. Mooney, Cherise Smith, and others.