Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century (The Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century (The Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists) Book

Looks at the images made of and by African Americans, extending back to the 1700s when a portrait of African-born poet Phillis Wheatley was drawn by her friend, the slave Scipio Moorhead. This book features colour reproductions of over 100 portraits in various media, ranging from paintings and silhouettes to book frontispieces and prints.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    From the American Revolution through the Civil War and on into the Gilded Age, American artists created dynamic images of black sitters. Many of these portraits illuminate the search for a self-possessed identity as well as cultural stereotypes...

  • Pickabook

    Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Karen C. C. Dalton

  • 0295985712
  • 9780295985718
  • Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
  • 30 April 2006
  • University of Washington Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 184
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