Artworks

James VanDerZee (1886 - 1983)
Untitled (Woman with Flowers), 1938

James VanDerZee was an American Photographer best known for his studio portraits of black New Yorkers and his documentation of Harlem and the Harlem Renaissance period.

Albert Wells (1920 - 2001)
Sketch Book Drawings, c. 1940's

Albert Wells was one of the many Morehousemen who studied painting under noted artist and teacher Hale Woodruff, the widely respected director of Atlanta University's art department. Under Woodruff's tutelage, Wells became a member of the so called "Outhouse School," an informal guild of African American painters known for their landscapes depicting the rural scenery of Georgia. He exhibited work at the Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro held at Tanner Art Galleries in Chicago in conjunction with the American Negros Exposition, a two-month-long celebration of African American history and Achievement.

Press Photo
Coretta Scott King and Harry Belaafonte at Martin Luther King, Jr. Funeral, 1968