Common Wealth
Subtitle: art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
By: Lowery Stokes Sims ; with contributions by Dennis Carr [and 10 others]
Contributors: Carr, Dennis (Dennis Andrew); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: MFA Publications; MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780878468157
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Boston Museum of Fine Arts; African American art; Catalogs; African American artists; Art
Other titles: Art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Notes: Includes work by artists: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, William Artis, Maria Auxiliadora da Silva, Kofi Bailey, Edward Mitchell Bannister, James Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, John Thomas Biggers, Camille Billops, Nayland Blake, Mark Bradford, Grafton Tyler Brown, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Tony Capellán, Elizabeth Catlett, Dana C. Chandler Jr., Willie Cole, Robert Colescott, Eldzier Cortor, Allan Rohan Crite, Frank E. Cummings III, Willis "Bing" Davis, Thomas Day, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Waldomiro de Deus, Aaron Douglas, Dave Drake (or Dave the Potter), Robert S. Duncanson, William Edmondson, Robert T. Freeman, Sam Gilliam, Lyle Ashton Harris, Palmer Hayden, Felrath Hines, Sedrick Huckaby, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Mary A. Jackson, Sargent Claude Johnson, William H. Johnson, Loïs Mailou Jones, Wifredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence, Paulo Pedro Leal, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Al Loving (Alvin Demar Loving Jr.), Kerry James Marshall, David McGee, Archibald John Motley Jr., Gordon Parks, Marion Perkins, Horace Pippin, Harriet Powers, Heitor dos Prazeres, Martin Puryear, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Agnaldo Manoel dos Santos, Augusta Christine Fells Savage, Joyce J. Scott, José Antonio da Silva, Walter Augustus Simon, Lorna Simpson, Arthur (Art) Smith, Vincent Smith, Therman Statom, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mickalene Thomas, Robert (Bob) Thompson, Rubem Valentim, Sérgio Vidal da Rocha, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Charles Wilbert White, Kehinde Wiley, Fred Wilson, John Woodrow Wilson, Ernest C. Withers, Hale Aspacio Woodruff, and Richard Yarde.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : painting yourself out of a corner / Lowery Stokes Sims; title: Vessels of memory; title: Interiors; title: Landscape and place; title: Men; title: Women; title: Family and community; title: Street life; title: Dance, music, and song; title: Spirituality; title: Masks and symbols; title: Abstraction; title: Art by African Americans in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Elliot Bostwick Davis; title: The National Center of Afro-American Artists / Edmund Barry Gaither; title: An interview with Michael Rosenfeld / Lowery Stokes Sims.