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Notes From Last Week

Some Class Members’ Questions

WB-Formal training of the artists: Meta Warwick Fuller; PA Museum and School of Art Ecole des Beaux Arts and Atelier of Rodin William H. Johnson; National Academy of Design, Cape Cod School of Art (Provincetown, MA), in Paris Aaron Douglas; Detroit Museum of Art, University of Nebraska School of Art, Winold Reiss, Barnes Foundation (Albert Barnes)

Formal Training Continued: Palmer Hayden; Columbia University, Cooper Union, Paris Archibald Motley; Art Institute of Chicago, Paris (Guggenheim) Malvin Johnson; National Academy of Design Members’ Questions Continued: Donna Calame - Ethnicity/Race of Women in “Night Life” Not at all unlikely that some could be Latina and “white non- Hispanic” women; and just as likely we are seeing mixed race African American women Jeanne Powell - Commented on what Af-Am migrants saw upon arrival and US Post Office and the black middle class (Malvin Johnson’s Painting)

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Sarah Wilcox - The policeman’s hands (in “Getting Religion”) R-his “nightstick” L-? Lindsay Kefauver - Nature of reviews of artists’ work Rich Murphy - Masks, Stereotypes, and depictions of individuals in Archibald Motley

Articl cles es to Rea ead:

• Colin Grant, “Claude McKay: On the Waterfront,” The New York Review of

Books (Nov. 5, 2020)

• Caroline Randall Williams, "My Body Is A Confederate Monument," NY

Times (June 28, 2020).

• Giovanni Russonello, "Gladys Bentley," NY Times (Feb. 3, 2019).
• Adeel Hassan, "Philip A. Payton Jr." NY Times (Feb. 3, 2019).

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