Harmon Foundation
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ART DOCUMENTARY: On Negro artists in sculpture, photography, painting, sketching, etching, writing, and on antique African art. Reel 1: Artist Palmer Hayden, muralist Aaron Douglas, sculptors Richmond Barthe and Augusta Savage, and photographer James Latimer Allen demonstrate techniques. Reel 2: Artists Benjamin Spurgeon Kitchin, Lois Mailou Jones, the late Malvin Gray Johnson, Aaron Douglas, sculptor William Ellisworth Artis, and pen-and-ink sketch artist Georgette Seabrooke show techniques. Close-ups of African art objects. Artist/writer James A. Porter displays assembled materials for his book on Negro accomplishments. Closeup of landscape by Robert S. Duncanson. Curator Arthur A. Schomburg shown art display at the Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints, New York Public Library, West 135th Street Branch. Reel 3: Artists Charles Alston, Susie Maribel McIver, and Augusta Savage teach studio classes. Richard William Lindsey and William E. Artis teach youngsters at the YMCA, and Hale A. Woodruff teaches at Atlanta University, Georgia. Reel 4: Exterior, Delphic Studios, New York. Harmon Foundation sponsors Cuban Negro Art display. Artist Pastor Argudin y Pedroso discusses his work with visitors. Children look at children's art. Fine art displayed in prominent Negro homes includes The Governor's House in Tangier by Henry O. Tanner, etchings by Albert Alexander Smith, and Sammy sculpted by Sargent Johnson. Art display at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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