A Shared Heritage

by Taylor, William E.; Warkel, Harriet G.; Burroughs, Margaret Taylor; Indianapolis Museum of Art

• ISBN13: 9780936260624
• ISBN10: 0936260629
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

"... highly recommended... " -- ChoiceThis handsomely illustrated catalog presents the work of four African American artists with shared Indiana roots -- John Wesley Hardrick, William Majors, William Edouard Scott, and Hale Aspacio Woodruff. Their art, ranging from impressionism and social realism to cubism and abstract expressionism, spans the major trends in 20th-century American art, while reflecting the artists' experiences as blacks in America.

Author Biography

WILLIAM E. TAYLOR is lecturer in black visual history at Indiana University, Bloomington, and Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. HARRIET G. WARKEL is curatorial associate at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Table of Contents

Lenders to the Exhibition	p. 6
Foreword	p. 7
Acknowledgments	p. 8
Introduction	p. 10
The Four Artists	p. 13
Image and Identity: The Art of William E. Scott, John W. Hardrick, and Hale A. Woodruff	p. 17
Hale Woodruff: African-American Metaphor, Myth, and Allegory	p. 77
William Majors: Aspirations and Beliefs	p. 99
The Mural Tradition	p. 123
The Changing Same: Spiral, the Sixties, and African-American Art	p. 147
Echoes of The Past: Artists' Biographies	p. 159
Checklist	p. 185
Index	p. 191
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