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Portraits of a People: Picturing
African Americans in the Nineteenth Century
William Matthew Prior 1806–1873
Mrs. Nancy Lawson, 1843
Oil on canvas
© Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont |
April 22–July 16, 2006
GALLERY 10
Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century looks critically at images made of African Americans, by black and white artists, and the role those images have played in establishing and fostering racial identity during a period of radical social change. The portraits are of specific individuals, and the viewer is encouraged to consider how the artists established the identity of their sitters by including elements of the world in which they lived.
This landmark exhibition, and its accompanying publication, features approximately 75 works ranging from paintings, photographs and silhouette profiles to book frontispieces and popular prints. It was organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art and is guest curated by Dr. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Associate Professor of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Delaware Art Museum installation and programming sponsored, in part, by AstraZeneca, JPMorgan Chase Foundation, Wilmington Trust, Clear Channel Radio - WILM, WJBR-FM, PNC Foundation, The Gilliam Foundation, the Hallie Tybout Exhibition Fund and the Delaware Division of the Arts. The DuPont Oval Logo is a registered trademark of E. I. duPont deNemours and Company.
This exhibition was organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts; and generously supported in part by Foley Hoag, LLP, Vivian and James Beard, Senator Edward W. and Mrs. Anne F. Brooke, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, John P. Axelrod, The Middlesex County Chapter of Links, Inc., Mark F. and Susan C. Clark, Dan and Alice Cunningham, Mark and Denise Johnson, David and Lisa Grain and other contributors in honor of Charles J. Beard II (PA ’62).
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Art historian Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw considers the various issues of how the self was fashioned pictorially and the development of unique identities through formal portraiture of freeborn and previously enslaved African American artists and sitters.
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Scipio Moorhead (lived in Boston, Massachusetts, 1750)
Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, 1773
Frontispiece engraving
© Special Collections, Margaret Clapp Library, Wellesley College
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W. E. Bowman
(1834–1915)
Frederick Douglass, n.d.
Albumen print on card
© American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts |
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Thomas Eakins (1844–1916)
Portrait of Henry O. Tanner, 1902
Oil on canvas
© The Hyde Collection,
Glens Falls, New York |
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Thomas Sully (1783–1872)
Edward James Roye, c. 1864
Oil on canvas
© Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia, Historical Society of Philadelphia Collection
Gift of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society |
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