Black Artists at the Montclair Art Museum

Posted on March 27, 2024 by Ken Dowell

Century: 100 Years of Black Art

Montclair (N.J.) Art Museum

Empathic Shed: Embellised Shjeds with Bone Fascinators, Saya Woolfolk
Smokey, Dawoud Bey
Slave Rebellion Reenactment Performances Still 1, Dread Scott
War Worker, Charles White
Harriet Tubman as Buddha, Joyce J. Scott
Mother and Child, Willie Cole
Memelodi (from the Lynch Fragment Series). Melvin Edwards
BAM (Seated Warrior Queen), Sanford Biggers
Late Afternoon, Romare Bearden
the space between, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray
Tar Beach 2, Faith Ringgold
Testimony, Kara Walker (one of five photogravures)
Blackout in Haiti, Lois Mailou Jones
Shore Road, Philemona Williamson
Venus Contemplating Her Shadow, Adger Cowans
Trap, Whitfield Lovell
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2 Responses to Black Artists at the Montclair Art Museum

  1. retrosimba says:
    March 27, 2024 at 1:35 pm

    Thanks for highlighting these inspirational works. Your post prompted me to look up artists Charles White and Lois Mailou Jones. I was wowed by their stories and their achievements.

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  2. Donna Janke says:
    March 29, 2024 at 5:20 pm

    So many stories in these pieces of art. Fascinating.

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