Library

250 years of Afro-American art : an annotated bibliography
Lynn Moody Igoe with James Igoe, New York : Bowker, 1981
Main Ref Z5956.A47 I38

Art Abstracts
Online index to journal literature, catalogs and other publications.

ARTstor
As of October 2005 ARTstor has a limited number of modern and contemporary African American artists. This number may increase as the database continues to grow

The Black Artist in America: an index to reproductions
Dennis Thomison, Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1991
Main Ref N6538.N5 T46 1991

Collecting African American art : works on paper and canvas Halima Taha, New York: Crown, c1998
Art N6538.N5 T34 1998

Images of 19th Century African Americans: A selection of visual
resources (from NYPL Schomburg Collection)
http://149.123.1.8/cgi-shl/vsc30b.exe/schomburg/images_aa19/toc.html?E+nyplbeta

A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America
Monroe Nathan Work, New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1928
Main Ref Z1361.N39 W8

Black Artists in the United States: an annotated bibliography of books, articles, and dissertations on black artists, 1779-1979
Lenwood G. Davis and Janet Sims; foreword by James E Newton, Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1980
Main Ref Z5956.A47 D38

Black Arts and Black Aesthetics: a bibliography
Fowler, Carolyn, Georgia: First World, 1981
Main Ref Z5956.A47 F69 1981

Black Authors and Illustrators of Children's Books: a biographical dictionary
Rollock, Barbara, New York: Garland Publishers, 1988
Main Ref Z1037 .R63 1988

Black Photographers, 1840-1940: an illustrated bio-bibliography
Willis-Thomas, Deborah,
New York: Garland Publishers, 1985
Main Ref TR139 .W55 1985

Fine Arts and the Black American
compiled by Betty Jo Irvine
Music and the Black American
compiled by Jane A. McCabe
Indiana: Indiana University, 1969
Main Ref Z1361.N39 I5 no. 8

Grove Dictionary of Art
A reference work covering all forms of the visual arts: painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and decorative arts, and photography, from prehistory to the 1990s. Corresponds to 34 volume print resource.

The Harlem Renaissance : a historical dictionary for the era
edited by Bruce Kellner,
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1984
Main Ref NX511.N4 H37 1984

An Illustrated Bio-Bibliography of Black Photographers 1840-1988
Willis-Thomas,Deborah, New York: Garland, 1988
Main Ref TR139 .W55 1988

St. James guide to Black artists
Riggs, Thomas, ed., Detroit : St. James Press, c1997
Art N40 .S78 1997

African American History Resources
http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/subject/afroam.shtml
"...houses several manuscript, archival and print collections that contain records and information relevant to the study of African American history. They are especially rich in material concerning 19th century African Americans, both in Maine and nationwide."

General

African-American Studies Relevant Resources
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/afam/index.html

African American Studies from Howard University Library
http://www.founders.howard.edu/
Topics include: Affirmative Action, Architecture, Art, Biography, Civil Rights, Communications, Curriculum, Demographics, Education, General Sources, Health & Welfare, History, Literature, Military Science, Music, Organizations, Periodicals, Politics, Publishers & Booksellers, Research Resources, Science & Technology, and Videos & Films.

African American Web Connection
http://www.aawc.com/aawc.html
by William R. Jones, CCP. "...AAWC, is providing a doorway to Afrocentric web resources for the African American web community and others seeking the total Black web experience."

African Studies WWW (U. Penn)
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/AS.html
Extensive collection of links. Focus is fairly academic. Click on Africa Web Links: an Annotated Resource List for a list of sites by subject.

Black/African Related Resources
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/mcgee.html
"This is a list of online information storage sites (FTP, Gopher, Telnet, WWW, BBS, Database, etc.) that contain a significant amount of information relating to or of concern to Black or African people, culture, and issues around the world, either in files or conferences. Also included (in other sections of the list) are resources relating to Ethnic/Intercultural Relations, International/Sustainable Development (includes Global Networking), and Social/Progressive Activism."

Images of African Americans from the 19^th Century
from the New York Public Library Digital Library Collections, Digital Schomburg
http://digital.nypl.org/schomburg/images_aa19/

The Jackson Davis Collection of African-American Educational Photographs
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/jdavis
The original photographic negatives (glass and celluloid) will be digitized and presented in a searchable database that will be freely accessible through the World Wide Web. In addition, each image will be researched to identify, where possible, individuals, locations, events and relevant historical and contextual information; this data will be incorporated into the Web-accessible database.

Race and Place: An African-American Community in the Jim Crow South
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/afam/raceandplace/index.html
The project is an archive of primary sources centered around the African-American community in Charlottesville, Virginia, from the 1890s to the 1930s. This on-going research project is a collaboration between the Virginia Center for Digital History and U. Va.'s Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies.

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research
http://web-dubois.fas.harvard.edu/DuBois/Research/Research.HTML

Major Research Collections

American Life Histories from the Library of Congress
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
Can search by key word or by state. "These life histories were written by the staff of the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the U.S. Works Progress (later Work Projects) Administration (WPA) from 1936-1940. The Library of Congress collection includes 2,900 documents representing the work of over 300 writers from 24 states. Typically 2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents consist of drafts and revisions, varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history. The histories describe the informant's family education, income, occupation, political views, religion and mores, medical needs, diet and miscellaneous observations. Pseudonyms are often substituted for individuals and places named in the narrative texts."

The African-American Mosaic Exhibition from the Library of Congress
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
"The exhibit covers only four areas --Colonization, Abolition, Migrations, and the WPA-- of the many covered by the Mosaic. These topics were selected not only because they illustrate well the depth, breadth, and richness of the Library's black history collections, but also because of the significant and interesting interplay among them. For example, the "back-to-Africa" movement represented by the American Colonization Society is vigorously opposed by abolitionists, and the movement of blacks to the North is documented by the writers and artists who participated in federal projects of the 1930s."

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture from the New York Public Library
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html
Collections include Art and Artifacts Division, General Research and Reference Division, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, Photographs and Prints Division.

Specialized Library/Research Resources, University Sponsored

Africa: Arts & Architecture
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/About_African/ww_art.html

African American Artists from Ethnic Studies at USC
http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/ethnicstudies/africanamerican/black_art.html
Collections of links

African American History from Historical Text Archive, Mississippi State.
http://historicaltextarchive.com/sections.php?op=listarticles&secid=8

African Americans in the Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective
(from the B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library webpage) http://www.liunet.edu/cwis/cwp/library/aavaahp.htm#sum
"Over 60 personalities are on display with biographical facts and information. Many examples of their creations are also represented. Included are: painters, sculptors, muralists, engravers, portraitists, print makers, illustrators, photographers, woodcut printers, lithographers, folk artists, and cartoonists. Books, pictures, photos, magazines, museum catalogs, visual crafts, [etc.] are on display."

Afro-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts
http://www.upress.virginia.edu/plunkett/mfp.html

The Amistad Research Center
(from Tulane University)
http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/
Center offers oral history and video collections along with a specialized library, traveling exhibits, publications, and significant African and African-American art holdings.

Black Caucus of the American Library Association
www.bcala.org

Black Film Center/Archive
http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/index.html
The BFC/A is a repository of films and related materials by and about African Americans.

Documenting the American South
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/
Documenting the American South, is the Academic Affairs Library's digitized and encoded full-text collection of works on Southern history and culture. DAS organizes works by project: "North American Slave Narratives;" "A Library of Southern Literature to 1920;" "First-person Narratives of the American South;" and "The Southern Homefront, 1861-65." This fall, "The Church in the Southern Black Community" begins. More than 300 works are now electronically published, and current funding supports the publication of more than 500 additional books and manuscripts in the next year and a half.

Institute for African American Studies
(from University of Georgia)
http://www.uga.edu/~iaas/home.html

Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/

John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American Documentation
(from Duke University Library)
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/franklin/

The Olu Oguibe Art History Class
http://www.camwood.org/oluart.htm
Provides an intro to African Art, African American Art, and Art History on the Web.

The Papers of African American Artists
http://artarchives.si.edu/guides/afriamer/afamguid.htm

Patrick Rael's links
(from Bowdoin College)
http://www.bowdoin.edu/%7Eprael/sources.htm
Collections of links in many areas of American history with including African American History

Museums

African-American Museum in Philadelphia
http://www.aampmuseum.org/
"This museum is home to art shows and special historic exhibits that focus on African-American themes. Also on display within its four galleries is a permanent collection of African-American art and historical photographs of Philadelphia."

African and African American Resources at the Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/afroam.htm

American Visionary Art Museum
http://www.avam.org/
"...America's first national museum dedicated to the collection of visionary or "outsider" art."

Anacostia Museum
http://www.si.edu/archives/historic/anacost.htm
"...national resource for the identification, documentation, protection, and interpretation of African American history and culture in Washington, D.C., and in those areas of the rural South that have been historically significant to generations of African Americans."

California African - American Museum
http://www.caamuseum.org/
"The Museum's art collection focuses on works by African-American artists and people of African descent from the 19th century, post-1930's to contemporary periods in African-American art, traditional African art and contemporary works of the African Diaspora."

The DuSable Museum of African American History
http://www.dusablemuseum.org
"...extensive permanent collection of artifacts, books, photographs, art objects, and memorabilia which, excluding the archival and library holdings, totals over 13,000 items. Among the holdings are original slave documents and civil rights memorabilia; an art collection rich in 19th and 20th century works; the photographic collections of Pulitzer Prize winning photographer John Tweedle and South African photographer Leo Leveson; and an ethnographic collection of African woodcarvings, bronze castings, and ivory carvings along with films and bibliographic files. The Museum's collection of paintings, drawings, and sculpture by African American artists has been said to be among the ten most notable collections of such works in the country."

Howard University Gallery of Art
http://www.howard.edu/finearts/GALLERy_FINAL/GalleryofArt.html

Museum of Afro American History
http://www.afroammuseum.org/
"...not-for-profit history institution dedicated to preserving, conserving and accurately interpreting the contributions of African Americans during the colonial period in New England."

Museum of African American History (Detroit)
http://www.maah-detroit.org/

National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center
http://www.ohiohistory.org/places/afroam/
"The mission of the Center is to educate the public about African American history and culture from the African origins to the present by collecting, preserving, and interpreting material evidence of the Black experience."

The Studio Museum in Harlem
http://www.studiomuseuminharlem.org
"... nineteenth and twentieth-century African-American art; twentieth century Caribbean and African art; and traditional African art and artifacts. We are the premier museum dedicated to African American art."

Tubman African American Museum, Macon Georgia
http://www.tubmanmuseum.com/default.htm

Temporary Exhibits and Resources

Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/
"...landmark historical documentary series of four, 90-minute television programs that bring to life our nation's early history in a new way. From Jamestown in 1607 to the start of the Civil War in 1861, the programs show the dramatic impact of the struggle over slavery and freedom in shaping our country."

Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vvhtml/vvhome.html
The Carl Van Vechten Photographs Collection at the Library of Congress consists of 1,395 photographs taken by American photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) between 1932 and 1964. The bulk of the collection consists of portrait photographs of celebrities, including many figures from the Harlem Renaissance. A much smaller portion of the collection is an assortment of American landscapes.

Narratives of African American Art and Identities, The David C. Driskell Collection
http://www.artgallery.umd.edu/driskell/
Depts/ArtGal/.WWW/exhibit/98-99/driskell/
"Narratives of African American Art and Identity will focus on the complex unfolding of racial identity as evidenced in African American art and on the various strategies artists have used to pursue their aesthetic and expressive concerns, to establish their place in the world of art, and to further various social and political agendas. The exhibition is organized around five themes that trace a more or less chronological narrative of 100 years of African American art..."

Re/Righting History: Counternarratives by Contemporary African American Artists
http://www.tfaoi.com/newsm1/n1m131.htm
This exhibition explores ways in which contemporary African-American artists are re-imaging events from the past to offer alternatives to the traditional "textbook" accounts of American history. They present new ways of viewing events, motifs, and prevalent attitudes from the American experience. With its perception of history as a mutable, ever-evolving phenomenon, the exhibition directly addresses some of the most vital topics under discussion today: primacy of voice, the influence and "truthfulness" of media reportage, and the importance of context in the evaluation of opinions and judgments.

Commerical

The African American Home Page

Artists by Nationality: African-American Artists
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/nationalities/African-American.html

Black Quest Power Resource Links
http://blackquest.com/link.htm
A comprehesive source and gateway to African American history, culture and society.

Entitled: Black Women Artists
http://www.entitled-bwartists.com/home.html

Index of Afro-Artists on the 'Net
http://www.artnoir.com/artistslistings.html

October Gallery
http://www.octobergallery.com

Thomas Stockett
http://www.afro.com/culture/artgallery/archive3/artgallery.html

Historically or Predominately Black Colleges and Universities

Howard University's Gateway to Historically Black Colleges and Universities
http://www.howard.edu/HBCU-Gateway/

African-American Issues: The Black Collegian Online
http://www.black-collegian.com