The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art

by Alain Locke

$4,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Washington, D.C. Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1940. First edition, first printing. Signed by Alain Locke and inscribed to an old friend, Allan R. Freelon on the front free endpaper. Freelon 1895-1960 was a prominent Harlem Renaissance artist, pioneering educator, and civil rights activist. 224 pp. with color frontispiece Mother and Child by Sargeant Johnson and 4 pp. color insert The Amistad Murals

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