Exhibit of fine arts by American Negro artists / presented by the Harmon Foundation and the Commission on the Church and Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches
This is an exhibition catalogue published in New York in 1929 by the Harmon Foundation with the Federal Council of Churches' Commission on the Church and Race Relations, presenting fine arts by American Negro artists to a general public audience. The four plates show a half-length oil portrait of an older man in a dark suit, a bust of a man in a suit, a head study of a bald man, and a standing nude male figure, all in sculpture or painting rendered in monochrome halftone. A designer might take from them the plain, classical portrait conventions of early twentieth-century American academic art, with its dark grounds and sober poses.
