Image and belief
Subtitle: Samella Lewis
By: interviewed by Richard Cándida Smith ; Art History Oral Documentation Project compiled under the auspices of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
Contributors: Cándida Smith, Richard, interviewer; Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities; J. Paul Getty Trust
Published: 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Interviews; Art historians
Other titles: Samella Lewis
Description: Transcript of an interview conducted for the Oral Documentation Project at the Getty Research Institute. The project began in 1991 as a collaboration with the Oral History Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was later solely operated by the Getty.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Open for qualified researchers.

Transcripts of the interviews jointly sponsored by the Getty and UCLA are also located at UCLA and in the Bancroft Library at Berkeley.

Artist and art historian Samella Lewis, née Sanders, is renowned for her contributions to African American art and art history. In 1951, Lewis became the first African American woman to receive a doctorate in fine arts and history. From 1969 to 1984, she was a professor of art history at Scripps College in Claremont, California, becoming the college's first tenured African American professor. She helped found the Museum of African American Art in Los Angeles in 1976, and established the influential journal International Review of African-American Art.

Forms of part: Interviews with art historians (Special Collections, accn. 940109)