Article: Seeing and Thinking About the Unexpected in American Art.(using the works of Henry Ossawa Tanner, Archibald J. Motley, Elizabeth Catlett and Sam Gilliam to examine American art)

Can one successfully examine American art using works by Henry Ossawa Tanner, Archibald J. Motley, Elizabeth Catlett and Sam Gilliam? The exhibit "To Conserve a Legacy: American Art From Historically Black Colleges and Universities" does so through artists and works not customarily considered visual conduits of an American character and identity. As one might expect, the most frequent subject of the artworks in the collections of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) is black America itself: its heroes, communities, pastimes, problems, fears and dreams. Each of these themes is given concrete, palpable form, fashioned with equal doses of fantasy, reality and ...

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