To conserve a legacy
Subtitle: American art from historically Black colleges and universities
By: Richard J. Powell, Jock Reynolds ; with an introduction by Kinshasha Holman Conwill.
Contributors: Reynolds, Jock.; Studio Museum in Harlem.; Addison Gallery of American Art.
Publisher: Addison Gallery of American Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem; Distributed by MIT Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Andover, Mass; New York; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: African American art -- Exhibitions.; African American universities and colleges -- Art collections -- Exhibitions.; Art -- Private collections -- Southern States -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: Many of this nation's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have amassed significant collections of American art and founded galleries and museums on their campuses. These collections provide a rich resource for the study of African American art and possess a diverse array of nineteenthand twentieth-century American art.

To Conserve a Legacy documents an outstanding sampling of paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and sculptures owned by Clark Atlanta University, Fisk University, Hampton University, Howard University, North Carolina Central University, and Tuskegee University.

This book serves as the catalogue for a major exhibition and conservation project organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem, in association with the Williamstown Art Conservation Center and the six participating HBCUs.
Notes: Catalog of a traveling exhibition held at the Studio Museum of Harlem, Mar. 17-June 27, 1999 and the Addison Gallery of American Art, July-Oct., 1999 and other institutions.