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Seller: memorabilia111 ✉️ (808) 100%, Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan, US, Ships to: US & many other countries, Item: 176277810632 AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTIST SIGNED BOOK TOM FEELINGS SIGNED INSCRIBED ILLUSTRATED. Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book (Picture Puffin Books) / Feelings, Muriel; Feelings, Tom [Illustrator] Puffin, 1992-07-15. Paperback. Like New. Signed by author TOM FEELINGS with an inscription
Feelings, Tom. (Brooklyn, NY, 1933-Columbia, SC, 2003)   Bibliography and Exhibitions MONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS: ANGELOU, MAYA and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). Now Sheba Sings the Song. New York: Dutton, 1987. 54 pp., mostly color illus. Poems by Angelou with illustrations by Feelings. 4to (32 cm.; 12.25 x 9.5 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed. Angelou, Maya, et al. with TOM FEELINGS (illus.). Soul Looks Back in Wonder. New York: Dial, 1993. Children's book. 40 pp., color illus. (several full-page). Poems by Maya Angelou, Lucille Clifton, Alexis De Veaux, Mari Evans, Darryl Holmes, Langston Hughes, Rashidah Ismaili, Haki R. Madhubuti, Walter Dean Myers, Mwatabu Okantah, Eugene B. Redmond, Askia M. Touré, Margaret Walker. Coretta Scott King Illustration Award, 1994. 8vo (25 cm.), purple cloth spine over black boards, pictorial d.j. First ed. Arnott, Kathleen, ed. and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). Tales of Temba: Traditional African Stories. New York: H.Z. Walck, 1969. Children's book. 144 pp., b&w illus. 13 tales for young readers from sub-Saharan Africa, retold by Kathleen Arnott. 8vo, black cloth, d.j. BACCHUS, JOAN and FRANCIS TAYLOR, eds. Golden Legacy Illustrated History Magazine Vol. 3: Crispus Attucks and the Minutemen. St. Albans, NY: Fitzgerald Publishing Co., 1968. A black history comic book. 32 pp., color illus. Written by Joan Bacchus and Francis Taylor. Illustrated by Joan Bacchus, Tom Feelings, Ezra Jackson. 4to (10.25 x 7 in.), stapled pictorial wraps. BACCHUS, JOAN, et al, ed. Golden Legacy Illustrated History Magazine Vol. 2: The Saga of Harriet Tubman: The Moses of Her People. St. Albans, NY: Fitzgerald Publishing Co., 1967. A black history comic book. 32 pp., color illus. Written by Joan Bacchus. Illustrated by Joan Bacchus and Tom Feelings. 4to (10.25 x 7 in.), stapled pictorial wraps. Blue, Rose and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). A Quiet Place. New York: Franklin Watts, 1969. Juvenile fiction. 57 pp., illus. A nine-year old boy who love to read loses his "quiet place" when the local library branch is closed. The author is a former teacher and Headstart program worker in New York and her book engages with the difficulties and choices of children growing up in a poor black urban neighborhood. 8vo (8 x 6.1 in.), boards, d.j. First ed. Boyd, Herb and Robert L. Allen and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America. New York: One World (Ballentine Books), 1995. xxxiv, 909 pp. Contains 7 drawings by Tom Feelings. 8vo (25 cm.), cloth. Columbia (SC). McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina. Middle Passage: White Ships / Black Cargo: Drawings by TOM FEELINGS. 2005. Solo exhibition of the original ink drawings for Tom Feelings's famous book. [Traveled to: Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, January-, 2006; Museum of Contemporary Diasporan Arts MoCADA, Brooklyn, NY, September 21, 2006-January 21, 2007; Beach Institute, September 7-November 8, 2008; and many other venues.] DAWES, KWAME and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). I Saw Your Face. New York: Dial, 2004. Children's book. 32 pp. Poem by Dawes with illus.by Feelings (images of children's faces from everywhere in his wide travels); afterword by Jerry Pinkney. A celebration of children of the African Diaspora living around the world. Sq. 4to (26 cm.; 10.3 x 11.5), hardcover. Feelings, Muriel and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book. New York: Dial, 1974. Children's book. 60 pp., sepia illus. Each of the 24 letters introduces a word that is used to teach something about an East African custom. Winner, Caldecott Honor Award - the first such award for a book by a black artist. [Caldecott Honor Book, 1975.] Oblong 4to (24 x 27 cm.), cloth, d.j. First ed. Feelings, Muriel and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book. New York: Dial, 1971. Children's book. Unpag., double page illus. of East African life accompanying the numbers 1 through 10 in Swahili. Winner, Caldecott Honor Award. [Reprinted in 1992.] 4to (22 x 26 cm.), cloth, d.j. First ed. Feelings, Muriel and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). Zamani Goes to Market. Seabury, 1970. Children's book. Ages 3 and up. 41 pp., illus. [Reprinted by Africa World Press, 1989.] FEELINGS, TOM. A Strange Balance of Joy and Pain. 1987. In: Barbara Harrison and Gregory McGuire, eds. Innocence and Experience: Essays and Conversations on Children's Literature. (New York: Lothrop, 1987):341-46. FEELINGS, TOM. Black Pilgrimage. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1972. 72 pp., numerous full-page illus. For young readers. Feelings describes his life, from his birthplace in Brooklyn to his adopted home, Ghana, and how various experiences helped him to develop new aspects of his talent. 4to (29 cm.), cloth, pictorial d.j. First ed. FEELINGS, TOM. Illustration is My Form: The Black Experience is my Content. 1985. In: The Advocate 4, 2 (1985):73-83. FEELINGS, TOM. The Artist at Work: Technique and the Artist's Vision. 1985. In: The Horn Book Magazine (November-December, 1985):685-695. FEELINGS, TOM. The Street Where You Live and What You Can Do to Improve It!. New York: NAACP, April, 1960. 16 pp., color-illustrated comic book style publication designed to encourage neighborhood community, security and welfare. FEELINGS, TOM (illus.). Middle Passage: White Ships, Black Cargo. New York: Dial, 1995. Children's book. Unpag., illus., map, bibliog. Intro. by John Henrik Clarke. Includes 64 paintings in pen-and-ink and tempera on rice paper in different sizes and formats, made between c.1976 and 1994. Coretta Scott King Illustration Award, 1996. [Also issued in a signed limited ed. of 350 in decorative slipcase.] Oblong 4to (27 x 35 cm.), cloth, d.j. Garfield, Nancy and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). The Tuesday Elephant. Crowell, 1968. Children's book. Greenfield, Eloise and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). Daydreamers. New York: Dial, 1981. [32] pp., chiefly color illus. Children's book. 4to (28 cm.). Grimes, Nikki and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). Something on my Mind. New York: Dial, 1978. Children's book. 32 pp., illus. Poems about growing up. Winner, Coretta Scott King Illustration Award. 4to (27 cm.) Grimes, Nikki and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). Something on My Mind. New York: Dial, 1978. Children's book. 32 pp., b&w illus. Prose poems about poor black children growing up in America - their hopes, fears and questions about life. Coretta Scott King Illustration Award, 1979. [Reprinted by Penguin, 1992.] 4to, hardcover, d.j. First ed. Heady, Eleanor Butler and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). When the Stones Were Soft: East African Fireside Tales. Funk & Wagnalls, 1968. Children's book. Inge, M. Thomas, ed. and intro. Dark Laughter: The Satiric Art of OLIVER W. HARRINGTON. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. xliii, 116 pp., illus. A rich gathering of Harrington's best cartoons from the past four decades, from the Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art. Fascinating biography of a major cartoonist of the 1930s and 40s known for his political satire and cartoons for the Black Press. Persecuted by McCarthy, Harrington moved to Paris in 1951 where he was central to the black expatriate community in Paris, friends with Richard Wright and Chester Himes until 1961 when he decided to take up residence in East Berlin where he spent his later decades. His work was published in the East German papers and in the Daily Worker back in the U.S. Other early black cartoonists briefly mentioned in the introduction include: Leslie L. Rogers, Henry Brown, Jay Jackson, Chester Commodore, Wilbert Holloway, Elton Fax, Samuel Milai, Mel Tapley, Tom Feelings, Ted Shearer, E. Simms Campbell, Jackie Ormes, Morrie Turner, Brumsic Brandon. Cartoonists of the 80s mentioned include Ray Billingsly, Robb Armstrong, Stephen Bentley, and Barbara Brandon. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed. Lester, Julius and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). Black Folktales. New York: Richard W. Baron, 1969. 159 pp., frontis. and b&w illustrations. A collection of African and African American folktales. 8vo, black cloth, lettered in orange and white, pictorial dust jacket, brown endpapers. First ed. LESTER, JULIUS and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). To Be a Slave. New York: Dial, 1968. 160 pp., b&w in-text illus. Newberry Honor Book, 1969. Note: the re-edition in 1998 [ISBN 0803723474] contains new introductions by Lester and Feelings written for this thirtieth anniversary edition. Lester's intensely personal new introduction states that at age ten, his father told him his family's history went back to a bill of sale and no further. This was Lester's first book, based on his compilation of the words of ex-slaves from nineteenth century slave narratives and from the Federal Writers' Project archive of ex-slave narratives complied during the 1930s. 8vo (8.8 x 5.8 in.), black cloth, stamped in silver, pictorial d.j. First ed. Mannas, Jimmie (Dir.). Head and Heart: TOM FEELINGS [Film]. Brooklyn: New Images, 1977. Tom Feelings, notable Afro-American illustrator, describes his childhood, artistic training, travels, his work as an illustrator, and love for Black people in this profile of the artist. Feelings describes his childhood in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, and how he came to be an illustrator of the stories and experiences of Black people. Feelings tells how traveling and living abroad (Africa and Guyana) affected his work and strengthened his love for Black people; he also demonstrates some of the techniques he uses in his work and discusses some of his major projects. Feelings' mother, sister and nephew, also an artist, are briefly featured. Footage includes Feelings' traveling and working in New York City, Africa and Guyana. [Schomburg Library for Research on Black Culture, New York.] 16mm. sd., col.; 27 min. Molarsky, Osmond and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). Song of the Empty Bottles. New York: H.Z. Walck, 1968. Children's book. 51 pp., color illus. Set in the inner city. Thaddeus dreams of owning a guitar and works hard to earn enough money to purchase one. Sq. 8vo (9.1 x 7 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed. New York (NY). Freedomways Associates. Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement: Vol. 13, no. 2 (Spring 1973). 1973. Includes: Cover illus. by Tom Feelings; "Look Homeward baby" by Ollie Harrington. 8vo, wraps. New York (NY). Freedomways Associates. Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement: Vol. 24, no. 3 (Summer 1984). 1984. Includes: cover art by Tom Feelings. 8vo, wraps. Purchase (NY). Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY-Purchase. MELVIN EDWARDS Sculpture: A Thirty-Year Retrospective 1933-1993. 1993. 144 pp. retrospective exhib. cat., 164 illus. (16 in color). chronol. with photos by Lynne Kenny, bibliog. Text by Lucinda Gedeon, with additional texts by Michael Brenson, Josephine Gear, Lowery Stokes Sims. The first major retrospective on this highly important contemporary African American sculptor. Well researched, with numerous other artists mentioned throughout: Herman Kofi Bailey, Marvin Harden, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Charles White, Milton Young, Benny Andrews, Ed Bereal, Camille Billops, the artist's grandfather James Benjamin Edwards, Richard Hunt, Jacob Lawrence, William Majors, Hale Woodruff, Malcolm Bailey, Romare Bearden, Gwendolyn Bennett, Norman Lewis, William T. Williams, Emma Amos, Frank Bowling, Peter Bradley, Vivian Browne, Ed Clark, Emilio Cruz, Al Loving, Bill Rivers, Jack Whitten, Bob Blackburn, Ernest Crichlow, Sam Gilliam, Lloyd McNeill, Frank Stewart, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bill Hutson, Tom Feelings, Houston Conwill, Betye Saar, Grace Stanislaus, Beverly Buchanan, Tyrone Mitchell. 4to, wraps. First ed. Schatz, Letta and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). Bola and the Oba's Drummer. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967. 156 pp., illus. A Nigerian youth aspires to become a drummer for the king. 8vo (23 cm.). SHARP, SAUNDRA PEARL (Writer, dir., prod.). The Healing Passage/ Voices From The Water [Video]. Los Angeles: 2004. Documentary film. Cultural artists create paths to healing from the present-day residuals of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Featuring Riua Akinshegun, Ysaye M. Barnwell, Oscar Brown, Jr., Katrina Browne, Tom Feelings, Haile Gerima, Chester Higgins, Jr., Gil Noble, Babatunde Olatunji, Abbey Onakoye, John Outterbridge, Dadisi Sanyika, S. Pearl Sharp, and CCH Pounder as the Voice of the Ancestors. Col., sd. 90 min. Thomas, Joyce Carol and TOM FEELINGS (illus.). Black Child. New York: Zamani Productions, 1981. 36 pp., cover illus. and illus. throughout. Preface notes the killings of Black children in Atlanta as the inspiration behind the poems. 8vo, lapped wraps. First ed. TOM FEELINGS (illus.). Tommy Traveler in the World of Black History. Black Butterfly, 1991. Children's book. GENERAL BOOKS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS: ALHAMISI, AHMED and KOFI HARUN WANGARA, eds. Black Arts: An Anthology of Black Creations. Detroit: Black Arts, 1969. 158 pp., illus. Artists include: Ahmed Alhamisi, Tom Feelings, James Lee, Roy Lewis, Robert Bobb Hamilton. Mostly an anthology of poetry, fiction, and essays. 8vo, wraps. First ed. ANNAPOLIS (MD). Banneker-Douglass Museum. Pass it On: The Art of African-American Children's Literature. January 1-June 30, 1995. Included: Tom Feelings, Francine Haskins, Jerry Pinkney, John Steptoe. BLOCKSON, CHARLES, ed. Catalogue of the Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection, a Unit of the Temple University Libraries. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. 820 pp., a dozen photographs, excellent title, name and detailed subject indices, approximately 11,000 entries describing a variety of historical artifacts: printed books, pamphlets, addresses and speeches, art catalogues, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts, broadsides, handbills, lithographs, tape recordings, stamps, coins, maps, oil paintings, and sculpture that all relate to African, African American, and Caribbean life and history. Intro by Dorothy Porter Wesley. The strength of the collection is such that even though the focus was not on art, there are nonetheless at least 250 art and architecture-related holdings. Bibliography entries specifically on the Fine Arts (including African art): items 640-806 (pp. 35-43); photography pp. 392-3. Artists mentioned (generally as authors rather than artists) include: Benny Andrews, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Jacqueline Fonvielle Bontemps, Clarence C. Bullock, E. Simms Campbell, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Leroy P. Clarke, William A. Cooper, Allan Rohan Crite, Beauford Delaney, David Driskell, Robert Duncanson, Elton Fax, Tom Feelings, Oliver (Ollie) Harrington, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Ida Ella Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Jesse Aaron, John L. Moore, Archibald Motley, Henry O. Tanner, Carroll Simms, Samella Lewis, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, Martin Puryear, Faith Ringgold, Thomas Sills, Augusta Savage, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Richard Samuel Roberts, James Vanderzee, Ruth Waddy, Deborah Willis (Ryan), Charles White. BOSTON (MA). Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists. Home Folk: Africa!. March 28-April 16, 1971. Three-person exhibition of 40 drawings and paintings of African peoples by Kofi Bailey, John Biggers, and Tom Feelings. BRADY, SHAWN, prod. Looking for a Face Like Mine [Film/Video]. WBGU-TV, Bowling Green State University, 2001. Written, produced and directed by Shawn Brady. Shows the works of five African American illustrators juxtaposed against historical stereotyped cultural images. Included are Ashley Bryan, Wil Clay, Jerry Pinkney, Tom Feelings, and Pat Cummings. The artists discuss their work and the effect book illustrations have on children. [Original film 2001 seems to have been 60 min., but DVD is substantially edited.] Film 60 min.; NTSC-VHS/DVD: color, sd; 30 min. BROOKLYN (NY). Brooklyn Museum of Art. Contemporary Afro-American Arts. September 29-October 31, 1968. Group exhibition 126 works by artists. The Brooklyn Museum Archives also records the following information: "September 1968: The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the parent body of The Brooklyn Museum, Botanic Garden, Children's Museum and the Academy of Music, announces the opening of a new Community Gallery, Sunday, September 29 at 1 p.m., in The Brooklyn Museum. This is the first time that a community gallery has been established within the walls of a major cultural institution for the express purpose of encouraging and stimulating creativity in the arts. Henri Ghent, who is also Assistant Director of the Institute, will be the new gallery’s director. The post was made possible last June by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts...The inaugural exhibition will be comprised of works by black artists from the Bedford Stuyvesant area, under the sponsorship of the Federated Institute of Cultural Enrichment (FICE), whose desire to exhibit in the Museum provided the original impetus for the gallery. The exhibition of Contemporary Afro-American Arts will include painting, sculpture, photography, tapestry, films and Audio-Visual, and will be shown for four weeks, terminating October 31." Reviews and mention: Alexander Keneas, "The Brooklyn Museum's New Community Gallery Focuses on Black America" NYT, September 30, 1968:53; New York Amsterdam News, October 12, 1968:(24); Diana David, "An Institute Reaches Out. The Brooklyn Museum and the Community," Harvard Art Review 3 (Winter 1968-69):(33)-38, discussion of Ghent, the new gallery and this exhibition; photo of David Butler with his sculpture. Editor's Note: The images of the original exhibition checklist, available on the Brooklyn Museum Archives website, makes clear that the exhibition was entirely organized by F.I.C.E. (the federated institute of cultural enrichment), a black artists organization in Brooklyn, not curated by Henri Ghent, hence the large number of misspellings in the names of the artists in the only extant list of participants. The checklist, created by F.I.C.E., appears to have been created from an attempt to read the artists' scribbled signatures from the works or from cards submitted with the works. This has made it impossible to identify all of the participants in this significant historic exhibition. The following (with names corrected wherever possible) were included in the exhibition: Tejumola Adetutu, Staiwo Balogun, Carol Bateman, Falcon Beazer, Carol Blank, Kay Brown, Alga Carr, Kitty Chavis, Charles Creary, Dwight E. Dates, David Elder, Tom Feelings, Raymond Gibson, Melvin Green, Hugh Harrell, Gaylord Hassan, Karl Holman, Bill Howell, Onnie Millar, Jessie Mosley, Otto Neals, Ademola Olugebefola, Joe Overstreet, Mantaque Pollars (?), Oko Pyatt, Abdul Rahman, Bobby Richardson, David F. Samuel, Frank Smith, George Wilson, artists listed only as Bosley, Jukulo, Torment, Torrence, Henery/Hennery, Rafiet, and also white photographer/painter Builder Levy who was an important civil rights community activist/organizer in Brooklyn at the time.) 3 pp. checklist in Brooklyn Museum Archives BROOKLYN (NY). Pratt Institute. Fourteen Afro-American Artists. December 1-21, 1976. Group exhibition. Poster has info and photo for each artist; intro. by Norma McMichael. Includes: Bearden, Bob Blackburn, Kay Brown, Carole Byard, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Tom Feelings, Manuel Hughes, Richard Hunt, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Valerie Maynard, Otto Neals, Ademola Olugebefola. Poster. BROOKLYN (NY). Salena Gallery, Long Island University. Legacy - Selections from the Lawrence Dorsey Art Collection. November 12-December 18, 2007. Group exhibition. Included: Benny Andrews, Tom Feelings, Theodore D. Gunn, Otto Neals, George L. Wilson, et al. CHARLESTON (SC). City Gallery at Waterfront Park. Special Moments: Works from the Collection of Dr. Harold M. Rhodes, III. September 10-October 19, 2011. Group exhibition. Curated by Mokhless Al Hariri. Included: Leroy Campbell, Arianne King-Comer, Tom Feelings, Tyrone Geter, Cassandra M. Gillens, Jonathan Green, John W. Jones, Leo Twiggs, and others. CHARLOTTE (NC). Mint Museum of Art and McColl Center for Visual Art. Celebrating the Legacy of Romare Bearden. Thru January 5, 2003. Two-venue group exhibition. Juried by David Driskell. 57 artists of the Carolinas. Included (most not in this database): Nellie Ashford, Charlotte, NC; Tarleton Blackwell (hog series - CCXXVIII: Precious 11, Oil on canvas), Chandra Cox (up a creek, painting), Raleigh, NC; Tom Feelings, (Enslaved African, Black and white paper collage), Columbia, SC; Pamela D. Ferguson, Charlotte, NC; Tyrone Geter, Feel the Spirit, Mixed Media, Columbia, SC; April Harrison, Mauldin, SC; Ivey Hayes, Charles Joyner, Gary, NC; Hasaan Kirkland, Charlotte, NC; Juan Logan, Chapel Hill, NC; Dina Lowery, Charlotte, NC; Paula S. MacLeod, Durham, NC; Sim Maiden, Charlotte, NC; Richard Marshall, Raleigh, NC; Kathy Metts, Georgetown, SC; Sheri Moore, Summerton, SC; Karen Simpson, Charlotte, NC; and Charles F. Williams. CHICAGO (IL). American Library Association. Notable Children's Books, 1940-1970. Chicago: American Library Association, 1977. x, 84 pp., index. African American artists and books illustrated include: Benny Andrews--Arnold Adoff, I Am the Darker Brother; Ernest Crichlow--Dorothy Sterling, Forever Free; Diane Dillon and Leo Dillon--Erik Haugaard, Hakon of Rogen's Saga; Elton Fax--Shirley Graham and George D. Lipscomb, George Washington Carver; Tom Feelings--Julius Lester, To Be a Slave; George Ford--Humphrey Harman, Tales Told Near a Crocodile; Milton Johnson--Margaret Coit, Andrew Jackson; Olivia Coolidge, Men of Athens; Erik Haugaard, The Little Fishes; John Steptoe--Stevie; Mozelle Thompson--James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson, Lift Every Voice and Sing; John Wilson--Jean George, Spring Comes to the Ocean [Igoe]. 8vo (23 cm.), wraps. CLARKE, JOHN HENRIK, ed. Harlem: a Community in Transition. New York: Citadel Press, 1969. Artists mentioned include: Roy DeCarava, Elton Fax, Tom Feelings, Allan Freelon. COLUMBIA (SC). Ponder Fine Arts Gallery, Benedict College. Columbia's Own. February, 2000. Group exhibition of work by Columbia-based African American artists: Tom Feelings, Tyrone Geter, MacArthur Goodwin, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Larry Lebby, Jim Barnes, Porter Dobb, Josie Brightstone, Ptah, Seitu Amenwahsu, Gary Taylor, Keith Tolen, John G. Wright, Carol Anderson, and Vennie Deas-Moore. COLUMBIA (SC). South Carolina State Museum. 100 Years/100 Artists: Views of the 20th Century in South Carolina Art. October 29, 1999-March 19, 2000. Group exhibition curated by six curators. Included: Tarleton Blackwell, Sam Doyle, Tom Feelings, Jonathan Green, James Hampton, Edwin A. Harleston, Mary Jackson (basketmaker), William H. Johnson, Larry Jordan, Larry Lebby, Colin Quashie, Richard Roberts, Arthur Rose, Philip Simmons, Merton D. Simpson, Robert Spencer, Leo Twiggs, Cecil J. Williams. COLUMBUS (OH). Ohio Historical Center. Soul! Art from the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center [Wilburforce]. May 1, 2009-February 27, 2010. Group exhibition. Curated by Floyd Thomas. Included: Cedric Adams, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Akosua Bandele, Richard Barclift, Richmond Barthé, John P. Beckley, Tina Brewer, Ashley Bryan, Calvin Burnett, Margarret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Dana Chandler, Claude Clark, Jeffrey Clark, Mary Reed Daniels, Willis (Bing) Davis, Louis Delsarte, Hayward Dinsmore, Raymond Dobard, Jeff Donaldson, Elton C. Fax, Tom Feelings, Manuel Gomez, Bernard Goss, M. E. Grayson, Clementine Hunter, Christina James, Brian Joiner, Jimi Jones, Jack Jordan, Clayton Lang, Jon Onye Lockard, Nola Lynch-Sheldon, Martina Johnson Allen, Victor Matthews, Valerie Maynard, Sylvia M. Miller, Velma Morris, Ademola Olugebefola, Elijah Pierce, Steve Prince, Patrick Reason, Annie Ruth, Betye Saar, Michael Sampson, Walter Simon, Michael Smith (sculptor), Ayanna Spears, Ann Tanksley, Yvonne Edwards Tucker, Harry Washington, Richard Wyatt, James "Bongo" Allen and unknown artist named Tilman. [Review: Kevin Joy, "Selections cover range of experiences by African-Americans" Columbus Dispatch, May 4, 2009; illus. "Golden Prison" by Dana Chandler.]: CUMMINGS, PAT, ed. Talking with Artists. New York: Bradbury Press, 1992. 96 pp., illus., bibliog. Fourteen distinguished picture book artists talk about their early art experiences, answer questions most frequently asked by children, and offer encouragement to those who would like to become artists. Includes Leo Dillon, Tom Feelings, Jerry Pinkney and Pat Cummings herself. 4to (29 cm.). DAVIES, CAROL BOYCE, ed. Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences and Culture. ABC-CLIO, 2008. 3 vols. 1110 pp. Marked by a more than usual editorail indifference to the visual arts, entries of erratic quality and less than desirable levels of research or scholarship. Deborah Willis is alotted a bare handful of pages to cover the entirety of African American photography. The essay on African Diaspora Art was allotted 17 pages to cover a period of 35,000 years and makes a courageous attempt to do so. It is not supported by any entries on individual artists, and many of the artists mentioned are not in the index. The entry is also plagued with inexcusable misspellings of numerous artists' names. The essay on Diaspora photography is also beset by the requirement of inappropriate brevity; the author desperately spends most of the allotted space listing the names of a fairly subjective selection of photographers, some with birth dates, others not. Clyde Taylor packs his 2 1/2 page space allotment to cover Diaspora Film with as many names as possible and, understandably, still can find no room for the Black Audio Film Collective or other such experimental filmmakers, Other essays are depressingly vacuous - the essay on the Black Arts Movement, allotted 2 pages, spends only 31 lines on vague remarks about the movement which the reader is led to think is attributable to events that took place in the Nile Valley thousands of years before. What can you say about a book that devotes more space to rap and hip-hop than to Barbados. Not a book worth consulting? 4to (10.3 x 7.3 in.), cloth. DAY, JEFFREY. Many artists stayed in the South for inspiration. 2007. In: The State (Columbia, SC), April 8, 2007. [http://www.thestate.com/115/story/29963.html]. Mentions departure of native South Carolinans William H. Johnson, Merton Simpson and Jonathan Green: The focus of the article is on those who stayed, returned, or moved to SC: Edwin Harleston, Arthur Rose, Leo Twiggs, Winston Wingo, Larry Lebby, Tarleton Blackwell, Tyrone Geter, and (at the end of his life) Tom Feelings. DUNBAR, ERNEST. The Black Expatriates. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1968. 251 pp. Chapters on a range of African Americans who chose to live abroad; based on personal interviews. Well-written. Visual artists include: Tom Feelings, Daniel Johnson, Arthur Hardie. 8vo, cloth, pictorial d.j. First ed. GARDEN CITY (NY). Adelphi University. Collector's Choice. Selections from the African-American and Haitian Collection of John H. and Vivian D. Hewitt. January 23-February 25, 1994. Exhib. cat., biogs. of artists. Intro. on Haitian art. Curated by Richard Vaux. Includes: Charles Alston, Henry Bannarn, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Ernest Crichlow, James Denmark, Tom Feelings, Jonathan Green, Eugene Grigsby, Alvin Hollingsworth, Richard Mayhew, Ann Tanksley, Ellis Wilson, Frank Wimberly, Hale Woodruff. 4to, wraps. First ed. HAJOSY, DOLORES. Gallery 62: An Outlet . . . A Bridge. 1985. In: Black American Literature Forum 19, No. 1 (Spring 1985):22-23. Mentions artists in 1978 inaugural exhibition at Gallery 62: Charles Alston, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, William Braxton, Selma Burke, Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, Jacob Lawrence, Archibald Motley, Augusta Savage, William E. Scott, Albert A. Smith, Henry O. Tanner, Charles White, Hale Woodruff. Mentions the many other artists subsequently shown in Gallery 62 exhibitions: Jules Allen, Emma Amos, Toyce Anderson, Aleta Bass, Carole Byard, Adger Cowans, Virginia Cox, Nicholas Davis, Avel DeKnight, Nadine DeLawrence-Maine, Louis Delsarte, James Denmark, Tom Feelings, Manuel Hughes, Bill Hutson, Oliver Johnson, Ben Jones, Richard Leonard, James Little, Fern Logan, Jacqueline Patten, John Pinderhughes, John Rhoden, Faith Ringgold, Arthur Robinson (presumably Leo A. Robinson?), Betye Saar, Sidney Schenck, Coreen Simpson, Beauford Smith, George Smith, John Spaulding, Charles Stewart, Frank Stewart, Sharon Sutton, Jon Thomas, Leon Waller, Joyce Wellman, George Wilson, Maryam Zafar. HARLEY, RALPH L., JR. Checklist of Afro-American Art and Artists. Kent State University Libraries, 1970. In: Serif 7 (December 1970):3-63. What could have been the solid foundation of future scholarship is unfortunately marred by errors of all kinds and the inclusion of numerous white artists. All Black artists are cross-referenced. HARTFORD (CT). CRT's Craftery Gallery. A Story Drawn for Me: Original Published Illustrations from African-American Children's Books. November 1, 1998-March 27, 1999. Group exhibition announcement card. Artists listed include: Benny Andrews, Carole Byard, Leo and Diane Dillon, Tom Feelings, Brian Pinkney. Card book announcement for Benny Andews' Sky Sash So Blue. [Benny Andrews Papers Box 2. Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University] Folding card with 2nd card laid in. Pictorial cover recto. HIGGINBOTHAM, EVELYN BROOKS, et al, Eds. The Harvard Guide to African-American History. 2001. 923 pp., visual arts bibliography of approximately 80 books in addition to the monographs mentioned in the text. Review of publications cites only four monographs from the 1940s-1971 (Rodman's Horace Pippin; Lois Mailou Jones Peintures; Images of Dignity; Mathews' Henry Ossawa Tanner) along with mention of the illustrated books by Elton Fax and John T. Biggers (on their trips to Africa), Allan Rohan Crite and Oliver Harrington. Only five additional books from the 1970s are mentioned, one of which is referred to as "that unusual publication, an artist's autobiography," but fails to note that the book is for children and that children's literature biographies of successful African American men were published in droves during the 70s, even in the form of history comic books. The author of this section states that roughly 50 monographic publications (including books and exhibition catalogues) were published during the 1990s. A highly misleading body count; we count well over 1000. Text includes mention of publications from the 1970s-90s on Charles Alston, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, Thomas Day, Beauford Delaney, Thornton Dial, Robert S. Duncanson, Melvin Edwards, Minnie Evans, Elton Fax, Tom Feelings, Amos Ferguson, David Hammons, Oliver Harrington, Palmer Hayden, Clementine Hunter, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Lois Mailou Jones, Raymond Lark, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Archibald Motley, Elijah Pierce, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, Faith Ringgold, Ellis Ruley, Philip Simmons, Renée Stout, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Bill Traylor, James W. Washington, Jr., James Lesesne Wells, and several others. A highly biased list omitting most major artists under 45. HUDSON, WADE and CHERYL WILLIS HUDSON. In Praise of Our Fathers and Our Mothers: a Black family treasury by outstanding authors and artists. East Orange, NJ: Just Us Books Inc., 1997. 131 pp., color and b&w illus. Includes: A good thing / by Candy Dawson Boyd -- Legacy by Ashley Bryan -- Gifts from my parents / by Margery Wheeler Brown -- Feelin' blue?-- Crack a book! / by Floyd Cooper and Dayton Cooper -- With a name like Steptoe-- : Bweela and Javaka talk with Pat Cummings -- Flying / by Richard Wesley -- Bridges / by Walter Dean Myers -- Sunrise sunset / by Jeanne Moutsoussamy-Ashe -- The gift / by Nikki Grimes -- Black woman / by Tom Feelings -- "Home" / by Gwendolyn Brooks -- Mom, Dad, family, and me : an interview with Brian Pinkney -- Tuesday (Chattanooga, TN) / by Angela Johnson -- Undue burden / by Mildred Pitts Walter -- What it means to be my father's son / by Bakari Kitwana -- A personal journey : race, rage, and intellectual development / by Haki R. Madhubuti -- Jurdine, Jurdine / by Wade Hudson -- Rock of ages / by Tonya Bolden -- Roots go deep / by Cheryl Willis Hudson -- Nana / by Glennette Tilley Turner -- Kazumi's shelf / by Toyomi Igus -- Momma's kitchen table / by Eleanora E. Tate -- Sugar / by Joyce Carol Thomas -- Ornaments / by Patricia C. and Fredrick McKissack, Jr. -- Louisa Pilgrim / by George Ford -- "Fetching" out of the past : an interview with Virginia Hamilton -- Feel the spirit / by Joyce Hansen -- Long distance warriors, dreamers & rhymers / by Eugene B. Redmond -- Ancient-future family/Knights of endurance / by Leo and Diane Dillon. 29 cm. JACKSON, TIM. Pioneering Cartoonists of Color. Creative License Studio, Inc. 1998. Important research on African American cartoonists, including Black Press comic strips that featured African American characters, heroes and heroines in a wide variety of life situations. Much new material based on conversations with Philadelphia cartoonist, Samuel Joyner who provided background information about many of the artists whom he had the privilege of actually knowing, the Vivian Harsh Collection of Afro-American History located in the Carter G. Woodson Regional Branch of the Chicago Library. Cartoonists named include: Douglas Akins, Charles Allen, Charles H. Alston, Don Anderson, Edd Ashe, Brumsic Brandon, Jr., Buck Brown, Henry Brown, E. Simms Campbell, Walt Carr, Ted Carroll, Bill Chase, Chester Commodore, Len Cooper, Charles C. Dawson, Daniel E. Day, Elton C. Fax, Tom Feelings, Ollie Harrington, Geoff Hayes, George Herriman, Al Hollingsworth, Wilbert Holloway, Jay Jackson, Burris Jenkins, Jr., Samuel Joyner, Charles Lee, Renny Lee, Nat Low, Samuel Milai, Calvin Massey, Ralph Matthews, Tap Melvin, George Mercer, F. Langston Mitchell, Jackie Ormes, David Orro, Clovis Parker, Stan Patt, Carl Pfeufer, Roger Powell, Ric Roberts, Leslie Rogers, Hardy B. Ruffin, Ted Shearer, Gus Standard, Jerry Stewart, Elmer C. Stoner, Tom Swaja, Melvin Tapley, Morrie Turner, Clifford Van Buren, Jim B. Watson, Ted Watson, Francis Yancy. Electronic publication on web www.clstoons.com/paoc/paocopen.htm KELLEY, ROBIN D.G. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002. 224 pp., index. Includes brief mention of: Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Catlett, Tom Feelings, Ellen Gallagher, Ollie Harrington, Wifredo Lam. 8vo, cloth, d.j. First ed. KING, CORETTA SCOTT. I Have a Dream by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Paintings by Fifteen Coretta Scott King Award & Honor Book Artists. New York: Scholastic, 1997. 40 pp. The Speech, biographical sketch, black-and-white photograph, plus illustrations by fifteen artists with their statements and biogs. Includes: Ashley Bryan, Carole Byard, Wil Clay, Floyd Cooper, Pat Cummings, Leo & Diane Dillon (front cover), Tom Feelings, George Ford, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Bryan Pinkney, Jerry Pinkney, James Ransome, Terea Shaffer, Kathleen Atkins Wilson. 4to (12.1 x 9 in.), boards, dust jacket. First ed. LEWIS, SAMELLA S. and RUTH G. WADDY, eds. Black Artists on Art Vol. 2. Los Angeles: Contemporary Crafts, Inc., 1971. xii, 140 pp., 199 illus., 86 in color, statements and brief bios for all artists, index. Intro. by Samella Lewis. Excellent reference. Benny Andrews, William Artis, Dorothy Atkins, Casper Banjo, Cleveland Bellow, Gloria Bohanon, Shirley Bolton, Vivian Browne, Margaret Burroughs, Nathaniel Bustion, Sheryle Butler, Yvonne Catchings, Elizabeth Catlett, Mitchell Caton, George Clack, Floyd Coleman, Alonzo Davis, Bing Davis, Dale Davis, Murry DePillars, Kenneth Dickerson, Eugene Eda, Cyril Fabio, Kenneth Falana, Thomas Feelings, Alice Gafford, Robert Glover, Ron Griffin, Bob Heliton, Dion Henderson, William Henderson, Ernest Herbert, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Humbert Howard, Suzanne Jackson, Rosalind Jeffries, Paul Keene, Gwendolyn Knight, Doyle Lane, Jacob Lawrence, Edward Love, Ron Moore, Norma Morgan, Isaac Nommo, Denise Palm, Leslie Price, William Prior, Noah Purifoy, Roscoe Reddix, Jerry Reed, John Riddle, Bernard Rollins, John Russell, Van Slater, Arenzo Smith, George Smith, Howard Smith, Nelson Stevens, Rod Taylor, Roberta Thompson, Charlene Tull, Leo Twiggs, Alfred Tyler, Anna Tyler, Bernard Upshur, Florestee Vance, William Walker, Carole Ward, Richard Waytt, Fred R. Wilson, Stanley Wilson, Charles Young, Milton Young. 4to, cloth, d.j. First ed. LIMA, CAROLYN W. A to Zoo: Subject Access to Children's Picture Books. New York: Bowker, 1982. Index of illustrators includes: Jacqueline Ayer (4 books), Moneta Barnett (5), Charles Bible (1), Carole Byard (1), Leo Carty (1), Gylbert Coker (1), Don Crews (5), Ernest Crichlow (2), Leo Dillon and Diane Dillon (2), Stephanie Douglas (1), Tom Feelings (3), George Ford (1), Harper Johnson (1), Jerry Pinkney (3), Ray Prather (1), John Steptoe (6), Mozelle Thompson (1), Emmett Wigglesworth (1), and John Wilson (1). [Obviously not a very complete reference; see vastly expanded 7th ed. pub. 2006.] LOS ANGELES (CA). California African American Museum. Lasting Impressions: Illustrating African American Children's Books. 1994. Group exhibition of fifteen illustrators, all Coretta Scott King Award winners. Curated by Brian Pinkney. Included: Pat Cummings, Jerry Pinkney, Leo and Diane Dillon, Tom Feelings, John Steptoe, among others. [Traveled to: Cleveland Museum of Art, February 16-April 17, 1994; Capital Children's Museum, Washington, DC, May 6-July 9, 1995; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, -October 28, 1995; Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, -November 17, 1996, and many other venues.] MURRAY, ALMA and ROBERT THOMAS (eds.). The Journey. New York: Scholastic, 1970. 192 pp., b&w illus. by the Dillons and Tom Feelings. 8vo, pictorial cloth, no d.j. First ed. Murray, Alma and Robert Thomas, eds. The Journey. New York: Scholastic, 1970. Children's black literature book, illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, Tom Feelings, George Ford, and Alvin Hollingsworth. Authors include: including Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Portia Washington, and Lorraine Hansberry, et al. 8vo, wraps. MURRAY, ALMA and ROBERT THOMAS, eds. The Journey. New York: Random House, 1970. 192 pp. Illustrated by Diane and Leo Dillon, Tom Feelings, George Ford, and Alvin Hollingsworth. 8vo, cloth, d.j. NEW YORK (NY). Gallery 62, National Urban League. The Child: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture. December 3, 1979- January 11, 1980. 16 pp. exhib. cat., illus., biogs. of each artist. Foreword by Robert B. Hill. Includes: Carole Byard, Virginia Cox, Tom Feelings, George Wilson. Sq. 8vo (21 x 21 cm.), wraps. First ed. New York (NY). Interracial Books for Children. Negro Artists Acclaimed. 1968. In: Interracial Books for Children Bulletin 2 (Spring/Summer 1968):3-4. Photo, comment and illus. for each artist. Includes: Tom Feelings, Ernest Crichlow, Harold James, George Ford, Moneta Barnett, Charles White, Alvin Smith (no photo), Yvonne Johnson, Don Miller. NEW YORK (NY). Kenkeleba House. In the Spirit of Wood. April 5-May 3, 1987. 17 pp. exhib. cat., 14 b&w illus., brief biogs. Foreword by Corinne Jennings. Group exhibition. Included: Tom Feelings, Carlton Ingleton, Walter Jackson, Arthenia McCoy, Otto Neals, John Rhoden, Randy Williams. [Brief review: NYT Oblong 4to (22 x 28 am.) NEW YORK (NY). Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Black New York Artists of the 20th Century: Selections from the Schomburg Center Collections. November 19, 1998-March 31, 1999. 96 pp. exhib. cat., 127 illus. (36 in color), bibliog. Ed. and text by curator Victor N. Smythe. Includes 125 artists: Tina Allen, Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Ellsworth Ausby, Abdullah Aziz, Xenobia Bailey, Ellen Banks, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Camille Billops, Bob Blackburn, Kabuya Bowens, William E. Braxton, Kay Brown, Selma Burke, Carole Byard, Elmer Simms Campbell, Nanette Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Violet Chandler, Colin Chase, Schroeder Cherry, Ed Clark, Houston Conwill, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Emilio Cruz, Michael Cummings, Diane Davis, Lisa Corinne Davis, Francks Francois Deceus, Avel C. DeKnight, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Louis Delsarte, James Denmark, Aaron Douglas, Taiwo Duvall, Melvin Edwards, Elton Fax, Tom Feelings, Robert T. Freeman, Herbert Gentry, Rex Goreleigh, Theodore Gunn, Inge Hardison, Oliver Harrington, Verna Hart, Palmer Hayden, Carl E. Hazlewood, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Manuel Hughes, Bill Hutson, Harlan Jackson, Laura James, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jamillah Jennings, M.L.J. Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Oliver Johnson, Gwen Knight, Jacob Lawrence, Cecil Lee, Hughie Lee-Smith, Richard Leonard, Norman Lewis, Bell Earl Looney, Valerie Maynard, Dindga McCannon, Sam Middleton, Onaway K. Millar, Louis E. Mimms, Tyrone Mitchell, Mark Keith Morse, George J.A. Murray, Sr., Sana Musasama, Otto Neals, Jide Ojo, Ademola Olugebefola, James Phillips, Anderson Pigatt, Robert S. Pious, Rose Piper, Georgette Seabrooke Powell, Debra Priestly, Ronald Okoe Pyatt, Abdur-Rahman, Patrick Reason, Donald A. Reid, Earle Richardson, Faith Ringgold, Winfred J. Russell, Alison Saar, Augusta Savage, Charles Searles, Charles Sebree, James Sepyo, Milton Sherrill, Danny Simmons, Deborah Singletary, Albert Alexander Smith, Mei Tei Sing-Smith, Vincent Smith, Tesfaye Tessema, Dox Thrash, Haileyesus Tilahun, Bo Walker, Arlington Weithers, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Emmett Wigglesworth, Billy Doe Williams, Grace Williams, Michael Kelly Williams, Walter H. Williams, William T. Williams, Ellis Wilison, George Wilson, Ron and Addelle Witherspoon, Hale Woodruff. as well as work by members of the collectives Spiral and Weusi and the early '70s exhibit by black women artists called Where We At, and dozens more. 4to (28 x 22 cm.), pictorial wraps. First ed. NEW YORK (NY). Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Recent Acquisitions of the Schomburg Collection. June 15-July 23, 1982. (8 pp.) exhib. brochure, Romare Bearden cover illus., brief biogs. of all artists. Group exhibition. Included: Jules Allen, Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Anthony Barboza, Romare Bearden, Dawoud Bey, Samuel Ellis Blount, Vivian Browne, Edward Clark, Ernest Crichlow, Beauford Delaney, Aaron Douglas, Tom Feelings, Herbert Genry, Adrienne Hoard, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Ademola Olugebefola, Robert Pious, Horace Pippin, Coreen Simpson, Vincent Smith, Frank Stewart, Bill Traylor, William T. Williams. 12mo, single tan double-folded sheet (11 x 17 in.), printed on both sides. NEW YORK (NY). Society of Illustrators, Inc. My Soul Looks Back and Wonders: The Black Experience in Illustration, 1773-2010. September, 2010. Group exhibition. Includes: Scipio Moorhead, Patrick Reason, Henry Jackson Lewis; John Henry Adams, Gil Ashby, Pedro Bell, Thomas Blackshear, Barbara H. Bond, Colin Bootman, Alexander Bostic, Bradford Brown, Elbrite Brown, Ashley Bryan, Yvonne Buchanan, Carole Byard, Elmer Simms Campbell, Mal Cann, Gregory Christie, Bryan Collier, Floyd Cooper, Nina Crewes, Donald Crews, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Rohan Crite, Pat Cummings, Frank Dillon, Aaron Douglas, Shane Evans, Elton Fax, Tom Feelings, George Ford, Jan Gilchrist, Cheryl Hanna, Oliver Harrington, James Hoston, Leonard Jenkins, Joel Peter Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Roy E. LaGrone, E. B. Lewis, Henry Jackson Lewis, Charles Lilly, Overton Loyd, Aaron McGruder, Don Miller, Christopher Myers, Kadir Nelson, Jackie Ormes, Gerald Purnell, Fred Pfeiffer, Robyn Phillips-Pendleton, Jerry Pinkney, Ivan Powell, James E. Ransome, Anna Rich, Faith Ringgold, Aminah Brenda Robinson, Reynold Ruffins, Synthia St. James, Albert Alexander Smith, Javaka Steptoe, John Lewis Steptoe, Jean Pierre Targete, Don Tate, Toni Taylor, Mozelle Thompson, Nancy Tolson, Ezra Tucker, Eric Velasquez, Laura Wheeler Waring, James Lesesne Wells, Eric Wilkerson, Hilda Rue Wilkerson, Cornelius Van Wright. OTFINOSKI, STEVEN. African Americans in the Visual Arts. New York: Facts on File, 2003. x, 262 pp., 50 b&w photos of some artists, brief 2-page bibliog., index. Part of the A to Z of African Americans series. Lists over 170 visual artists (including 18 photographers) and 22 filmmakers with brief biographies and token bibliog. for each. An erratic selection, far less complete than the St. James Guide to Black Artists, and inexplicably leaving out over 250 artists of obvious historic importance (for ex.: Edwin A. Harleston, Grafton Tyler Brown, Charles Ethan Porter, Wadsworth Jarrell, John Outterbridge, Noah Purifoy, William Majors, Camille Billops, Whitfield Lovell, Al Loving, Ed Clark, John T. Scott, Maren Hassinger, Lorraine O'Grady, Winnie Owens-Hart, Adrienne Hoard, Oliver Jackson, Frederick Eversley, Glenn Ligon, Sam Middleton, Ed Hamilton, Pat Ward Williams, etc. and omitting a generation of well-established contemporary artists who emerged during the late 70s-90s. [Note: a newly revised edition of 2012 (ten pages longer) has not rendered it a worthy reference work on this topic.] 8vo (25 com), laminated papered boards. PAINTER, NELL IRVIN. Creating Black Americans: African American History and its Meanings 1619 to the Present. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvi, 458 pp., 148 illus. (110 in color), 4 maps, bibliog., index. Valuable for its images. A historical and cultural narrative that stretches from Africa to hip-hop with unusual attention paid to visual work. However, Painter is a historian not an art historian and therefore deals with the art in summary fashion without discussion of its layered imagery. Artists named include: Sylvia Abernathy, Tina Allen, Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Xenobia Bailey, James Presley Ball, Edward M. Bannister, Amiri Baraka (as writer), Richmond Barthé, Jean-Michel Basquiat, C. M. Battey, Romare Bearden, Arthur P. Bedou, John T. Biggers, Camille Billops, Carroll Parrott Blue, Leslie Bolling, Chakaia Booker, Cloyd Boykin, Kay Brown, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Dana Chandler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Chris Clark, Claude Clarke, Houston Conwill, Brett Cook-Dizney, Allan Rohan Crite, Willis "Bing" Davis, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, David C. Driskell, Robert S. Duncanson, Melvin Edwards, Tom Feelings, Roland L. Freeman, Meta Warrick Fuller, Paul Goodnight, Robert Haggins, Ed Hamilton, David Hammons, Inge Hardison, Edwin A. Harleston, Isaac Hathaway, Palmer Hayden, Kyra Hicks, Freida High-Tesfagiogis, Paul Houzell, Julien Hudson, Margo Humphrey, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Wadsworth Jarrell, Joshua Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, William H. Johnson, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Jacob Lawrence, Viola Burley Leak, Charlotte Lewis, Edmonia Lewis, Samella Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Estella Conwill Majozo, Valerie Maynard, Aaron McGruder, Lev Mills, Scipio Moorhead, Archibald Motley, Jr., Howardena Pindell, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, Harriet Powers, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, JoeSam, Melvin Samuels (NOC 167), O.L. Samuels, Augusta Savage, Joyce J. Scott, Herbert Singleton, Albert A. Smith, Morgan & Marvin Smith, Vincent Smith, Nelson Stevens, Ann Tanksley, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Dox Thrash, James Vanderzee, Kara Walker, Paul Wandless, Augustus Washington, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Pat Ward Williams, Hale Woodruff, Purvis Young. 8vo (9.4 x 8.2 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed. PHILADELPHIA (PA). Black History Museum. 9 to the Universe: Black Artists. 1983. 89 pp. text including 24 symposium papers, tributes, and a few poems by artists and critics, a few b&w illus., bibliog. An important publication. Contributors include: Elton Fax, Ansel Adams, Beuford Smith, Betty J. Curtis, Leandra Jackson, James G. Spady, Floyd J. Coleman, Freida Jones, et al. Cover design by Isaac Foy. Includes: Selma Burke, Roy DeCarava, Elton Fax, Tom Feelings, Isaac Foy, Milton S. James, Charles S. Johnson, Virginia J. Kiah, Laura Wheeler Waring. 4to, stapled wraps. Original cover drawing design by Isaac Foy. RAND, DONNA and TONI TRENT PARKER. Black Books Galore: A Guide to More Great African American Children's Books. John Wiley and Sons, 2001. 247 pp., index of titles, index of illustrators. Includes (among others): Benny Andrews, Ashley Bryan, Yvonne Buchanan, Michael Bryant, Jerry Butler, Carole Byard, Bryan Collier, Heather Collins, Pat Cummings, Baba Wague Diakité, Leo Dillon, Elton C. Fax, Tom Feelings, George Ford, Tyrone Geter, Jan Spivey Gilchrist, Raymond Holbert, Varnette Honeywood, Curtis James, Leslie Jean-Bart, Dolores Johnson, Brenda Joysmith, 8vo, wraps. ROBERTSON, JACK. Twentieth-Century Artists on Art. An Index to Artists' Writings, Statements, and Interviews. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1985. Useful reference work; includes numerous African American artists: Ron Adams, Charles Alston, Charlotte Amevor, Benny Andrews, Dorothy Atkins, Casper Banjo, Ellen Banks, Romare Bearden, Ed Bereal, Arthur Berry, John Biggers, Betty Blayton, Gloria Bohanon, Shirley Bolton, David Bradford, Arthur Britt, Frederick Brown, Kay Brown, Winifred Brown, Vivian Browne, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Cecil Burton, Sheryle Butler, Carole Byard, Arthur Carraway, Bernie Casey, Yvonne Catchings, Mitchell Caton, Elizabeth Catlett, Dana Chandler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Claude Clark Jr., Irene Clark, Donald Coles, Robert Colescott, Dan Concholar, Eldzier Cortor, Marva Cremer, Doris Crudup, Dewey Crumpler, Emilio Cruz, Samuel Curtis, William Curtis, Alonzo Davis, Bing Davis, Dale Davis, Roy DeCarava, Beauford Delaney, Brooks Dendy, Murry DePillars, Robert D'Hue, Kenneth Dickerson, Leo Dillon, Aaron Douglas, Emory Douglas, David Driskell, Eugenia Dunn, Annette Ensley, Eugene Eda, Melvin Edwards, Marion Epting, Minnie Evans, Frederick Eversley, Tom Feelings, Mikele Fletcher, Moses O. Fowowe, Miriam Francis, Ibibio Fundi, Alice Gafford, West Gale, Joseph Geran, Sam Gilliam, Robert Glover, Wilhelmina Godfrey, Rex Goreleigh, Robert H. Green, Donald O. Greene, Ron Griffin, Eugene Grigsby. Horathel Hall, Wes Hall, David Hammons, Philip Hampton, Marvin Harden, John T. Harris, William Harris, Kitty Hayden, Ben Hazard, Napoleon Jones-Henderson (as Henderson), William H. Henderson, Ernest Herbert, Leon Hicks, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Alfred Hinton, Al Hollingswoth, Earl Hooks, Raymond Howell, Margo Humphrey, Richard Hunt, Bill Hutson, Suzanne Jackson, Walter Jackson, Rosalind Jeffries, Marie Johnson, Ben Jones, Laura Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Jack Jordan, Cliff Joseph, Gwendolyn Knight, Larry Compton Kolawole, Raymond Lark, Jacob Lawrence, Flora Lewis, James E. Lewis, Norman Lewis, Samella Lewis, Tom Lloyd, Juan Logan, Willie Longshore, Ed Love, Al Loving, Philip Mason, Richard Mayhew, Valerie Maynard, Karl McIntosh, William McNeil, Yvonne Meo, Sam Middleton, Onnie Millar, Eva H. Miller, Sylvia Miller, Lev Mills, James Mitchell, Arthur Monroe, Evangeline Montgomery, Ron Moore, Norma Morgan, Jimmie Mosely, Otto Neals, Trudell Obey, Kermit Oliver, Haywood Oubré, John Outterbridge, Lorenzo Pace, William Pajaud, Denise Palm, James Parks, Angela Perkins, Howardena Pindell, Elliott Pinkney, Adrian Piper, Horace Pippin, Leslie Price, Noah Purifoy, Martin Puryear, Roscoe Reddix, Jerry Reed, Robert G. Reid, William Reid, John Rhoden, Gary Rickson, John Riddle, Faith Ringgold, Haywood Rivers, Lethia Robertson, Brenda Rogers, Charles D. Rogers, Bernard Rollins, Arthur Rose, John Russell, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, Charles Shelton, Thomas Sills, Jewel Simon, Merton Simpson, Van Slater, Alfred James Smith, Arenzo Smith, Arthur Smith, Damballah Smith, George Smith, Howard Smith. Greg Sparks, Sharon Spencer, Nelson Stevens, James Tanner, Della Taylor, Rod Taylor, Evelyn Terry, Alma Thomas, James "Son Ford" Thomas, Bob Thompson. John Torres, Elaine Towns, Curtis Tucker, Yvonne Tucker, Charlene Tull, Leo Twiggs, Alfred Tyler, Anna Tyler, Bernard Upshur, Florestee Vance, Royce Vaughn, Ruth Waddy, Larry Walker, William Walker, Bobby Walls, Carole Ward, Pecolia Warner, Mary Washington, James Watkins, Roland Welton, Amos White, Charles White, Tim Whiten, Acquaetta Williams, Chester Williams, Daniel Williams, Laura Williams, William T. Williams, Luster Willis, Fred Wilson, John Wilson, Stanley Wilson, Bernard Wright, Richard Wyatt, Bernard Young, Charles Young, Milton Young. 4to, cloth. SANTA MONICA (CA). M. Hanks Gallery. Masterpieces of African American Art: An African American Perspective. 2008. Exhib. cat., color illus. Text by David C. Driskell, text by Paul Von Blum, and an interview with Richard Long. Includes: Romare Bearden, Archibald Motley, Jr., Benny Andrews, David C. Driskell, Walter Williams, Charles Sebree, Palmer Hayden, Varnette Honeywood, Charles Searles, Michael Massenburg, William Pajaud, Phoebe Beasley, Charles Sallee, Willie Robert Middlebrook, La Monte Westmoreland, Hale Woodruff, John Offutt, William Artis, Beauford Delaney, Elizabeth Catlett, Thomas Sills, Rene Hanks, Eric Hanks, Tom Feelings, Amiri Baraka, Lois M. Jones, William Edouard Scott, and Grafton Tyler Brown. 8vo (23 cm.), wraps. First ed. Sharp, S. Pearl. Soft Song: a collection of new sounds. Los Angeles: Poets Pay Rent Too, 1979. 62 pp. 35 poems by Sharp, with 14 illus. in b&w and color by Tom Feelings, Kinshasha Conwill, Mark Greenfield, Varnette P. Honeywood, Sylvia Miller, Dadisi Mjenzi (Donald Fuller), Alfonzo Washington and Grace Miller. [Reprinted: New York: Harlem River Press, 1991.] 8vo, wraps. SHERMAN, SUSAN and GALE JACKSON, eds. Art Against Apartheid: Works for Freedom. New York: Ikon, 1986. 182 pp. Intro by Alice Walker. A special double issue of IKON (second series, #s 5-6). Includes: Candida Alvarez, Tom Feelings, Vincent D. Smith. 8vo, wraps. SMETHURST, JAMES EDWARD. The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 480 pp., index (lacking many names actually in the text). Distinctive for its attention to individual geographical loci and diversity, within the framework of the Left, the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement and other national artistic cultural and political trends. Primarily focused on the written and spoken word, but includes some passing mention of the intersection of the visual arts with a range of literary circles. Mentions: Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, Reginald Gammon (as Richard), Hugh Harrell, Oliver Harrington, Tom Feelings, Felrath Hines, Wadsworth Jarrell, Ted Joans, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Samella Lewis, Richard Mayhew, William Pritchard, Noah Purifoy, Edward Spriggs, Nelson Stevens, James Stewart, Askia Touré, Charles White, Hale Woodruff, James Yeargans. 8vo (9.1 x 6.1 in.), wraps. SMITH, VINCENT (interviewee). A Painter Looks Back. 1980. In: National Scene Magazine [New York] 11 (November 1980):12-13. Mentions numerous other artists: Dave Brown, Virginia Cox, Harvey Cropper, Joseph Ducayet, Beauford Delaney, Tommy Ellis, Tom Feelings, Edgar Fitt, George Ford, Jimmy Gittens, Selvin Goldbourne, Arthur Hardie [as Hardy], Al Hicks, Cliff Jackson, Ted Joans, Jacob Lawrence, Philip Martin, Richard Mayhew, Samuel Middleton, Earl Miller, Arthur Monroe, Jack Morton, James A. Porter, Karl Parbosingh, Charles White, Walter Williams. SPRADLING, MARY MACE. In Black and White: Afro-Americans in Print. Kalamazoo: Kalamazoo Public Library, 1980. 2 vols. 1089 pp. Includes: John H. Adams, Ron Adams, Alonzo Aden, Muhammad Ali, Baba Alabi Alinya, Charles Alston, Charlotte Amevor, Benny Andrews, Ralph Arnold, William Artis, Ellsworth Ausby, Jacqueline Ayer, Calvin Bailey, Jene Ballentine, Casper Banjo, Henry Bannarn, Edward Bannister, Dutreuil Barjon, Ernie Barnes, Carolyn Plaskett Barrow, Richmond Barthé, Beatrice Bassette, Ad Bates, Romare Bearden, Phoebe Beasley, Roberta Bell, Cleveland Bellow, Ed Bereal, Arthur Berry, DeVoice Berry, Cynthia Bethune, Charles Bible, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Bob Blackburn, Irving Blaney, Bessie Blount, Gloria Bohanon, Leslie Bolling, Shirley Bolton, Charles Bonner, Michael Borders, John Borican, Earl Bostic, Augustus Bowen, David Bowser, David Bradford, Edward Brandford, Brumsic Brandon, William Braxton, Arthur Britt Sr., Benjamin Britt, Sylvester Britton, Elmer Brown, Fred Brown, Kay Brown, Margery Brown, Richard L. Brown, Samuel Brown, Vivian E. Browne, Henry Brownlee, Linda Bryant, Starmanda Bullock, Juana Burke, Selma Burke, Eugene Burkes, Viola Burley, Calvin Burnett, John Burr, Margaret Burroughs, Nathaniel Bustion, Sheryle Butler, Elmer Simms Campbell, Thomas Cannon, Nick Canyon, Edward Carr, Art Carraway, Ted Carroll, Joseph S. Carter, William Carter, Catti, George Washington Carver, Yvonne Catchings, Elizabeth Catlett, Mitchell Caton, Dana Chandler, Kitty Chavis, George Clack, Claude Clark, Ed Clark, J. Henrik Clarke, Leroy Clarke, Ladybird Cleveland, Floyd Coleman, Donald Coles, Margaret Collins, Paul Collins, Sam Collins, Dan Concholar, Arthur Coppedge, Wallace X. Conway, Leonard Cooper, William A. Cooper, Art Coppedge, Eldzier Cortor, Samuel Countee, Harold Cousins, William Craft, Cleo Crawford, Marva Cremer, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Crite, Jerrolyn Crooks, Harvey Cropper, Doris Crudup, Robert Crump, Dewey Crumpler, Frank E. Cummings, William Curtis, Mary Reed Daniel, Alonzo Davis, Charles Davis, Willis "Bing" Davis, Dale Davis, Charles C. Dawson, Juette Day, Thomas Day, Roy DeCarava, Paul DeCroom, Avel DeKnight, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Richard Dempsey, Murry DePillars, Robert D'Hue, Kenneth Dickerson, Leo Dillon, Raymond Dobard, Vernon Dobard, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, Emory Douglas, Robert Douglass, Glanton Dowdell, David Driskell, Yolande Du Bois, Robert Duncanson, Eugenia Dunn, John Dunn, Adolphus Ealey, Eugene Eda, Melvin Edwards, Gaye Elliington, Annette Ensley, Marion Epting, Minnie Evans, Frederick Eversley, James Fairfax, Kenneth Falana, Allen Fannin, John Farrar, William Farrow, Elton Fax, Muriel Feelings, Tom Feelings, Frederick Flemister, Mikelle Fletcher, Curt Flood, Thomas Floyd, Doyle Foreman, Mozelle Forte (costume and fabric designer), Amos Fortune, Mrs. C.R. Foster, Inez Fourcard (as Fourchard), John Francis, Miriam Francis, Allan Freelon, Meta Warrick Fuller, Stephany Fuller, Gale Fulton-Ross, Ibibio Fundi, Alice Gafford, Otis Galbreath, West Gale, Reginald Gammon, Jim Gary, Herbert Gentry, Joseph Geran, Jimmy Gibbez, Sam Gilliam, Robert Glover, Manuel Gomez, Russell Gordon, Rex Goreleigh, Bernard Goss, Samuel Green, William Green, Donald Greene, Joseph Grey, Ron Griffin, Eugene Grigsby, Henry Gudgell, Charles Haines, Clifford Hall, Horathel Hall, Wesley Hall, David Hammons, James Hampton, Phillip Hampton, Lorraine Hansberry, Marvin Harden, Arthur Hardie, Inge Hardison, John Hardrick, Edwin Harleston, William A. Harper, Gilbert Harris, John Harris, Maren Hassinger, Isaac Hathaway, Frank Hayden, Kitty Hayden, Palmer Hayden, Vertis Hayes, Wilbur Haynie, Dion Henderson, Ernest Herbert, Leon Hicks, Hector Hill, Tony Hill, Geoffrey Holder, Al Hollingsworth, Varnette Honeywood, Earl Hooks, Humbert Howard, James Howard, Raymond Howell, Julien Hudson, Manuel Hughes, Margo Humphrey, Thomas Hunster, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Norman Hunter, Orville Hurt, Bill Hutson, Nell Ingram, Tanya Izanhour, Ambrose Jackson, Earl Jackson, May Jackson, Nigel Jackson, Suzanne Jackson, Walter Jackson, Louise Jefferson, Ted Joans, Daniel Johnson, Lester L. Johnson, Jr., Malvin Gray Johnson, Marie Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Barbara Jones, Ben Jones, Calvin Jones, Frederick D. Jones Jr., James Arlington Jones, Lawrence Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Eddie Jack Jordan, Ronald Joseph, Lemuel Joyner, Paul Keene, Elyse J. Kennart, Joseph Kersey, Gwendolyn Knight, Lawrence Compton Kolawole, Oliver LaGrone, Artis Lane, Doyle Lane, Raymond Lark, Lewis H. Latimer, Jacob Lawrence, Clarence Lawson, Bertina Lee, Joanna Lee, Peter Lee, Hughie Lee-Smith, Leon Leonard, Curtis Lewis, Edmonia Lewis, James Edward Lewis, Norman Lewis, Samella Lewis, Charles Lilly, Henri Linton, Jules Lion, Romeyn Lippman, Tom Lloyd, Jon Lockard, Juan Logan, Willie Longshore, Ed Loper, Ed Love, Al Loving, Geraldine McCullough, Lawrence McGaugh, Charles McGee, Donald McIlvaine, James McMillan, William McNeil, Lloyd McNeill, David Mann, William Marshall, Helen Mason, Philip Mason, Winifred Mason, Calvin Massey, Lester (Nathan) Mathews, William Maxwell, Richard Mayhew, Valerie Maynard, Yvonne Meo, Sam Middleton, Onnie Millar, Aaron Miller, Eva Miller, Lev Mills, P'lla Mills, Evangeline J. Montgomery, Arthur Monroe, Frank Moore, Ron Moore, Scipio Moorhead, Norma Morgan, Ken Morris, Calvin Morrison, Jimmie Mosely, Leo Moss, Lottie Moss, Archibald Motley, Hugh Mulzac, Frank Neal, George Neal, Otto Neals, Shirley Nero, Effie Newsome, Nommo, George Norman, Georg Olden, Ademola Olugebefola, Conora O'Neal (fashion designer), Cora O'Neal, Lula O'Neal, Pearl O'Neal, Ron O'Neal, Hayward Oubré, John Outterbridge, Carl Owens, Lorenzo Pace, Alvin Paige, Robert Paige, William Pajaud, Denise Palm, Norman Parish, Jules Parker, James Parks, Edgar Patience, Angela Perkins, Marion Perkins, Michael Perry, Jacqueline Peters, Douglas Phillips, Harper Phillips, Delilah Pierce, Howardena Pindell, Horace Pippin, Julie Ponceau, James Porter, Leslie Price, Ramon Price, Nelson Primus, Nancy Prophet, Noah Purifoy, Teodoro Ramos Blanco y Penita, Otis Rathel, Patrick Reason, William Reid, John Rhoden, Barbara Chase-Riboud, William Richmond, Percy Ricks, Gary Rickson, John Riddle, Gregory Ridley, Faith Ringgold, Malkia Roberts, Brenda Rogers, Charles Rogers, George Rogers, Arthur Rose, Nancy Rowland, Winfred Russell, Mahler Ryder, Betye Saar, Charles Sallee, Marion Sampler, John Sanders, Walter Sanford, Raymond Saunders, Augusta Savage, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Thomas Sills, Carroll Simms, Jewel Simon, Walter Simon, Merton Simpson, William H. Simpson, Louis Slaughter, Gwen Small, Albert A. Smith, Alvin Smith, Hughie Lee-Smith, John Henry Smith, Jacob Lawrence, John Steptoe, Nelson Stevens, Edward Stidum, Elmer C. Stoner, Lou Stovall, Henry O. Tanner, Ralph Tate, Betty Blayton Taylor, Della Taylor, Bernita Temple, Herbert Temple, Alma Thomas, Elaine Thomas, Larry Thomas, Carolyn Thompson, Lovett Thompson, Mildred Thompson, Mozelle Thompson, Robert (Bob) Thompson, Dox Thrash, Neptune Thurston, John Torres, Nat Turner, Leo Twiggs, Bernard Upshur, Royce Vaughn, Ruth Waddy, Anthony Walker, Earl Walker, Larry Walker, William Walker, Daniel Warburg, Eugene Warburg, Carole Ward, Laura Waring, Mary P. Washington, James Watkins, Lawrence Watson, Edward Webster, Allen A. Weeks, Robert Weil, James Wells, Pheoris West, Sarah West, John Weston, Delores Wharton, Amos White, Charles White, Garrett Whyte, Alfredus Williams, Chester Williams, Douglas R. Williams, Laura Williams, Matthew Williams, Morris Williams, Peter Williams, Rosetta Williams (as Rosita), Walter Williams, William T. Williams, Ed Wilson, Ellis Wilson, Fred Wilson, John Wilson, Stanley Wilson, Vincent Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Bernard Wright, Charles Young, Kenneth Young, Milton Young. [Note the 3rd edition consists of two volumes published by Gale Research in 1980, with a third supplemental volume issued in 1985.] Large stout 4tos, red cloth. 3rd revised expanded edition. ST LOUIS (MO). St. Louis Public Library. An index to Black American artists. St. Louis: St. Louis Public Library, 1972. 50 pp. Also includes art historians such as Henri Ghent. In this database, only artists are cross-referenced. 4to (28 cm.) THOMISON, DENNIS. The Black Artist in America: An Index to Reproductions. Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1991. Includes: index to Black artists, bibliography (including doctoral dissertations and audiovisual materials.) Many of the dozens of spelling errors and incomplete names have been corrected in this entry and names of known white artists omitted from our entry, but errors may still exist in this entry, so beware: Jesse Aaron, Charles Abramson, Maria Adair, Lauren Adam, Ovid P. Adams, Ron Adams, Terry Adkins, (Jonathan) Ta Coumba T. Aiken, Jacques Akins, Lawrence E. Alexander, Tina Allen, Pauline Alley-Barnes, Charles Alston, Frank Alston, Charlotte Amevor, Emma Amos (Levine), Allie Anderson, Benny Andrews, Edmund Minor Archer, Pastor Argudin y Pedroso [as Y. Pedroso Argudin], Anna Arnold, Ralph Arnold, William Artis, Kwasi Seitu Asante [as Kwai Seitu Asantey], Steve Ashby, Rose Auld, Ellsworth Ausby, Henry Avery, Charles Axt, Roland Ayers, Annabelle Bacot, Calvin Bailey, Herman Kofi Bailey, Malcolm Bailey, Annabelle Baker, E. Loretta Ballard, Jene Ballentine, Casper Banjo, Bill Banks, Ellen Banks, John W. Banks, Henry Bannarn, Edward Bannister, Curtis R. Barnes, Ernie Barnes, James MacDonald Barnsley, Richmond Barthé, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Daniel Carter Beard, Romare Bearden, Phoebe Beasley, Falcon Beazer, Arthello Beck, Sherman Beck, Cleveland Bellow, Gwendolyn Bennett, Herbert Bennett, Ed Bereal, Arthur Berry, Devoice Berry, Ben Bey, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Willie Birch, Eloise Bishop, Robert Blackburn, Tarleton Blackwell, Lamont K. Bland, Betty Blayton, Gloria Bohanon, Hawkins Bolden, Leslie Bolling, Shirley Bolton, Higgins Bond, Erma Booker, Michael Borders, Ronald Boutte, Siras Bowens, Lynn Bowers, Frank Bowling, David Bustill Bowser, David Patterson Boyd, David Bradford, Harold Bradford, Peter Bradley, Fred Bragg, Winston Branch, Brumsic Brandon, James Brantley, William Braxton, Bruce Brice, Arthur Britt, James Britton, Sylvester Britton, Moe Brooker, Bernard Brooks, Mable Brooks, Oraston Brooks-el, David Scott Brown, Elmer Brown, Fred Brown, Frederick Brown, Grafton Brown, James Andrew Brown, Joshua Brown, Kay Brown, Marvin Brown, Richard Brown, Samuel Brown, Vivian Browne, Henry Brownlee, Beverly Buchanan, Selma Burke, Arlene Burke-Morgan, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Cecil Burton, Charles Burwell, Nathaniel Bustion, David Butler, Carole Byard, Albert Byrd, Walter Cade, Joyce Cadoo, Bernard Cameron, Simms Campbell, Frederick Campbell, Thomas Cannon (as Canon), Nicholas Canyon, John Carlis, Arthur Carraway, Albert Carter, Allen Carter, George Carter, Grant Carter, Ivy Carter, Keithen Carter, Robert Carter, William Carter, Yvonne Carter, George Washington Carver, Bernard Casey, Yvonne Catchings, Elizabeth Catlett, Frances Catlett, Mitchell Caton, Catti, Charlotte Chambless, Dana Chandler, John Chandler, Robin Chandler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Kitty Chavis, Edward Christmas, Petra Cintron, George Clack, Claude Clark Sr., Claude Lockhart Clark, Edward Clark, Irene Clark, LeRoy Clarke, Pauline Clay, Denise Cobb, Gylbert Coker, Marion Elizabeth Cole, Archie Coleman, Floyd Coleman, Donald Coles, Robert Colescott, Carolyn Collins, Paul Collins, Richard Collins, Samuel Collins, Don Concholar, Wallace Conway, Houston Conwill, William A. Cooper, Arthur Coppedge, Jean Cornwell, Eldzier Cortor, Samuel Countee, Harold Cousins, Cleo Crawford, Marva Cremer, Ernest Crichlow, Norma Criss, Allan Rohan Crite, Harvey Cropper, Geraldine Crossland, Rushie Croxton, Doris Crudup, Dewey Crumpler, Emilio Cruz, Charles Cullen (White artist), Vince Cullers, Michael Cummings, Urania Cummings, DeVon Cunningham, Samuel Curtis, William Curtis, Artis Dameron, Mary Reed Daniel, Aaron Darling, Alonzo Davis, Bing Davis, Charles Davis, Dale Davis, Rachel Davis, Theresa Davis, Ulysses Davis, Walter Lewis Davis, Charles C. Davis, William Dawson, Juette Day, Roy DeCarava, Avel DeKnight, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Nadine Delawrence, Louis Delsarte, Richard Dempsey, J. Brooks Dendy, III (as Brooks Dendy), James Denmark, Murry DePillars, Joseph DeVillis, Robert D'Hue, Kenneth Dickerson, Voris Dickerson, Charles Dickson, Frank Dillon, Leo Dillon, Robert Dilworth, James Donaldson, Jeff Donaldson, Lillian Dorsey, William Dorsey, Aaron Douglas, Emory Douglas, Calvin Douglass, Glanton Dowdell, John Dowell, Sam Doyle, David Driskell, Ulric S. Dunbar, Robert Duncanson, Eugenia Dunn, John Morris Dunn, Edward Dwight, Adolphus Ealey, Lawrence Edelin, William Edmondson, Anthony Edwards, Melvin Edwards, Eugene Eda [as Edy], John Elder, Maurice Ellison, Walter Ellison, Mae Engron, Annette Easley, Marion Epting, Melvyn Ettrick (as Melvin), Clifford Eubanks, Minnie Evans, Darrell Evers, Frederick Eversley, Cyril Fabio, James Fairfax, Kenneth Falana, Josephus Farmer, John Farrar, William Farrow, Malaika Favorite, Elton Fax, Tom Feelings, Claude Ferguson, Violet Fields, Lawrence Fisher, Thomas Flanagan, Walter Flax, Frederick Flemister, Mikelle Fletcher, Curt Flood, Batunde Folayemi, George Ford, Doyle Foreman, Leroy Foster, Walker Foster, John Francis, Richard Franklin, Ernest Frazier, Allan Freelon, Gloria Freeman, Pam Friday, John Fudge, Meta Fuller, Ibibio Fundi, Ramon Gabriel, Alice Gafford, West Gale, George Gamble, Reginald Gammon, Christine Gant, Jim Gary, Adolphus Garrett, Leroy Gaskin, Lamerol A. Gatewood, Herbert Gentry, Joseph Geran, Ezekiel Gibbs, William Giles, Sam Gilliam, Robert Glover, William Golding, Paul Goodnight, Erma Gordon, L. T. Gordon, Robert Gordon, Russell Gordon, Rex Goreleigh, Bernard Goss, Joe Grant, Oscar Graves, Todd Gray, Annabelle Green, James Green, Jonathan Green, Robert Green, Donald Greene, Michael Greene, Joseph Grey, Charles Ron Griffin, Eugene Grigsby, Raymond Grist, Michael Gude, Ethel Guest, John Hailstalk, Charles Haines, Horathel Hall, Karl Hall, Wesley Hall, Edward Hamilton, Eva Hamlin-Miller, David Hammons, James Hampton, Phillip Hampton, Marvin Harden, Inge Hardison, John Hardrick, Edwin Harleston, William Harper, Hugh Harrell, Oliver Harrington, Gilbert Harris, Hollon Harris, John Harris, Scotland J. B. Harris, Warren Harris, Bessie Harvey, Maren Hassinger, Cynthia Hawkins (as Thelma), William Hawkins, Frank Hayden, Kitty Hayden, Palmer Hayden, William Hayden, Vertis Hayes, Anthony Haynes, Wilbur Haynie, Benjamin Hazard, June Hector, Dion Henderson, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, William Henderson, Barkley Hendricks, Gregory A. Henry, Robert Henry, Ernest Herbert, James Herring, Mark Hewitt, Leon Hicks, Renalda Higgins, Hector Hill, Felrath Hines, Alfred Hinton, Tim Hinton, Adrienne Hoard, Irwin Hoffman, Raymond Holbert, Geoffrey Holder, Robin Holder, Lonnie Holley, Alvin Hollingsworth, Eddie Holmes, Varnette Honeywood, Earl J. Hooks, Ray Horner, Paul Houzell, Helena Howard, Humbert Howard, John Howard, Mildred Howard, Raymond Howell, William Howell, Calvin Hubbard, Henry Hudson, Julien Hudson, James Huff, Manuel Hughes, Margo Humphrey, Raymond Hunt, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Elliott Hunter, Arnold Hurley, Bill Hutson, Zell Ingram, Sue Irons, A. B. Jackson, Gerald Jackson, Harlan Jackson, Hiram Jackson, May Jackson, Oliver Jackson, Robert Jackson, Suzanne Jackson, Walter Jackson, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Bob James, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jasmin Joseph [as Joseph Jasmin], Archie Jefferson, Rosalind Jeffries, Noah Jemison, Barbara Fudge Jenkins, Florian Jenkins, Chester Jennings, Venola Jennings, Wilmer Jennings, Georgia Jessup, Johana, Daniel Johnson, Edith Johnson, Harvey Johnson, Herbert Johnson, Jeanne Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Marie Johnson-Calloway, Milton Derr (as Milton Johnson), Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Ben Jones, Calvin Jones, Dorcas Jones, Frank A. Jones, Frederick D. Jones, Jr. (as Frederic Jones), Henry B. Jones, Johnny Jones, Lawrence Arthur Jones, Leon Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Nathan Jones, Tonnie Jones, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Jack Jordan, Cliff Joseph, Ronald Joseph, Lemuel Joyner, Edward Judie, Michael Kabu, Arthur Kaufman, Charles Keck, Paul Keene, John Kendrick, Harriet Kennedy, Leon Kennedy, Joseph Kersey; Virginia Kiah, Henri King, James King, Gwendolyn Knight, Robert Knight, Lawrence Kolawole, Brenda Lacy, (Laura) Jean Lacy, Roy LaGrone, Artis Lane, Doyle Lane, Raymond Lark, Carolyn Lawrence, Jacob Lawrence, James Lawrence, Clarence Lawson, Louis LeBlanc, James Lee, Hughie Lee-Smith, Lizetta LeFalle-Collins, Leon Leonard, Bruce LeVert, Edmonia Lewis, Edwin E. Lewis, Flora Lewis, James E. Lewis, Norman Lewis, Roy Lewis, Samella Lewis, Elba Lightfoot, Charles Lilly [as Lily], Arturo Lindsay, Henry Linton, Jules Lion, James Little, Marcia Lloyd, Tom Lloyd, Jon Lockard, Donald Locke, Lionel Lofton, Juan Logan, Bert Long, Willie Longshore, Edward Loper, Francisco Lord, Jesse Lott, Edward Love, Nina Lovelace, Whitfield Lovell, Alvin Loving, Ramon Loy, William Luckett, John Lutz, Don McAllister, Theadius McCall, Dindga McCannon, Edward McCluney, Jesse McCowan, Sam McCrary, Geraldine McCullough, Lawrence McGaugh, Charles McGee, Donald McIlvaine, Karl McIntosh, Joseph Mack, Edward McKay, Thomas McKinney, Alexander McMath, Robert McMillon, William McNeil, Lloyd McNeill, Clarence Major, William Majors, David Mann, Ulysses Marshall, Phillip Lindsay Mason, Lester Mathews, Sharon Matthews, William (Bill) Maxwell, Gordon Mayes, Marietta Mayes, Richard Mayhew, Valerie Maynard, Victoria Meek, Leon Meeks, Yvonne Meo, Helga Meyer, Gaston Micheaux, Charles Mickens, Samuel Middleton, Onnie Millar, Aaron Miller, Algernon Miller, Don Miller, Earl Miller, Eva Hamlin Miller, Guy Miller, Julia Miller, Charles Milles, Armsted Mills, Edward Mills, Lev Mills, Priscilla Mills (P'lla), Carol Mitchell, Corinne Mitchell, Tyrone Mitchell, Arthur Monroe, Elizabeth Montgomery, Ronald Moody, Ted Moody, Frank Moore, Ron Moore, Sabra Moore, Theophilus Moore, William Moore, Leedell Moorehead, Scipio Moorhead, Clarence Morgan, Norma Morgan, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Patricia Morris, Keith Morrison, Lee Jack Morton, Jimmie Mosely, David Mosley, Lottie Moss, Archibald Motley, Hugh Mulzac, Betty Murchison, J. B. Murry, Teixera Nash, Inez Nathaniel, Frank Neal, George Neal, Jerome Neal, Robert Neal, Otto Neals, Robert Newsome, James Newton, Rochelle Nicholas, John Nichols, Isaac Nommo, Oliver Nowlin, Trudell Obey, Constance Okwumabua, Osira Olatunde, Kermit Oliver, Yaounde Olu, Ademola Olugebefola, Mary O'Neal, Haywood Oubré, Simon Outlaw, John Outterbridge, Joseph Overstreet, Carl Owens, Winnie Owens-Hart, Lorenzo Pace, William Pajaud, Denise Palm, James Pappas, Christopher Parks, James Parks, Louise Parks, Vera Parks, Oliver Parson, James Pate, Edgar Patience, John Payne, Leslie Payne, Sandra Peck, Alberto Pena, Angela Perkins, Marion Perkins, Michael Perry, Bertrand Phillips, Charles James Phillips, Harper Phillips, Ted Phillips, Delilah Pierce, Elijah Pierce, Harold Pierce, Anderson Pigatt, Stanley Pinckney, Howardena Pindell, Elliott Pinkney, Jerry Pinkney, Robert Pious, Adrian Piper, Horace Pippin, Betty Pitts, Stephanie Pogue, Naomi Polk, Charles Porter, James Porter, Georgette Powell, Judson Powell, Richard Powell, Daniel Pressley, Leslie Price, Ramon Price, Nelson Primus, Arnold Prince, E. (Evelyn?) Proctor, Nancy Prophet, Ronnie Prosser, William Pryor, Noah Purifoy, Florence Purviance, Martin Puryear, Mavis Pusey, Teodoro Ramos Blanco y Penita, Helen Ramsaran, Joseph Randolph; Thomas Range, Frank Rawlings, Jennifer Ray, Maxine Raysor, Patrick Reason, Roscoe Reddix, Junius Redwood, James Reed, Jerry Reed, Donald Reid, O. Richard Reid, Robert Reid, Leon Renfro, John Rhoden, Ben Richardson, Earle Richardson, Enid Richardson, Gary Rickson, John Riddle, Gregory Ridley, Faith Ringgold, Haywood Rivers, Arthur Roach, Malkia Roberts, Royal Robertson, Aminah Robinson, Charles Robinson, John N. Robinson, Peter L. Robinson, Brenda Rogers, Charles Rogers, Herbert Rogers, Juanita Rogers, Sultan Rogers, Bernard Rollins, Henry Rollins, Arthur Rose, Charles Ross, James Ross, Nellie Mae Rowe, Sandra Rowe, Nancy Rowland, Winfred Russsell, Mahler Ryder, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Charles Sallee, JoeSam., Marion Sampler, Bert Samples, Juan Sanchez, Eve Sandler, Walter Sanford, Floyd Sapp, Raymond Saunders, Augusta Savage, Ann Sawyer, Sydney Schenck, Vivian Schuyler Key, John Scott (Johnny) , John Tarrell Scott, Joyce Scott, William Scott, Charles Searles, Charles Sebree, Bernard Sepyo, Bennie Settles, Franklin Shands, Frank Sharpe, Christopher Shelton, Milton Sherrill, Thomas Sills, Gloria Simmons, Carroll Simms, Jewell Simon, Walter Simon, Coreen Simpson, Ken Simpson, Merton Simpson, William Simpson, Michael Singletary (as Singletry), Nathaniel Sirles, Margaret Slade (Kelley), Van Slater, Louis Sloan, Albert A. Smith, Alfred J. Smith, Alvin Smith, Arenzo Smith, Damballah Dolphus Smith, Floyd Smith, Frank Smith, George Smith, Howard Smith, John Henry Smith, Marvin Smith, Mary T. Smith, Sue Jane Smith, Vincent Smith, William Smith, Zenobia Smith, Rufus Snoddy, Sylvia Snowden, Carroll Sockwell, Ben Solowey, Edgar Sorrells, Georgia Speller, Henry Speller, Shirley Stark, David Stephens, Lewis Stephens, Walter Stephens, Erik Stephenson, Nelson Stevens, Mary Stewart, Renée Stout, Edith Strange, Thelma Streat, Richard Stroud, Dennis Stroy, Charles Suggs, Sharon Sulton, Johnnie Swearingen, Earle Sweeting, Roderick Sykes, Clarence Talley, Ann Tanksley, Henry O. Tanner, James Tanner, Ralph Tate, Carlton Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Janet Taylor Pickett, Lawrence Taylor, William (Bill) Taylor, Herbert Temple, Emerson Terry, Evelyn Terry, Freida Tesfagiorgis, Alma Thomas, Charles Thomas, James "Son Ford" Thomas, Larry Erskine Thomas, Matthew Thomas, Roy Thomas, William Thomas (a.k.a. Juba Solo), Conrad Thompson, Lovett Thompson, Mildred Thompson, Phyllis Thompson, Bob Thompson, Russ Thompson, Dox Thrash, Mose Tolliver, William Tolliver, Lloyd Toone, John Torres, Elaine Towns, Bill Traylor, Charles Tucker, Clive Tucker, Yvonne Edwards Tucker, Charlene Tull, Donald Turner, Leo Twiggs, Alfred Tyler, Anna Tyler, Barbara Tyson Mosley, Bernard Upshur, Jon Urquhart, Florestee Vance, Ernest Varner, Royce Vaughn, George Victory, Harry Vital, Ruth Waddy, Annie Walker, Charles Walker, Clinton Walker, Earl Walker, Lawrence Walker, Raymond Walker [a.k.a. Bo Walker], William Walker, Bobby Walls, Daniel Warburg, Eugene Warburg, Denise Ward-Brown, Evelyn Ware, Laura Waring, Masood Ali Warren, Horace Washington, James Washington, Mary Washington, Timothy Washington, Richard Waters, James Watkins, Curtis Watson, Howard Watson, Willard Watson, Richard Waytt, Claude Weaver, Stephanie Weaver, Clifton Webb, Derek Webster, Edward Webster, Albert Wells, James Wells, Roland Welton, Barbara Wesson, Pheoris West, Lamonte Westmoreland, Charles White, Cynthia White, Franklin White, George White, J. Philip White, Jack White (sculptor), Jack White (painter), John Whitmore, Jack Whitten, Garrett Whyte, Benjamin Wigfall, Bertie Wiggs, Deborah Wilkins, Timothy Wilkins, Billy Dee Williams, Chester Williams, Douglas Williams, Frank Williams, George Williams, Gerald Williams, Jerome Williams, Jose Williams, Laura Williams, Matthew Williams, Michael K. Williams, Pat Ward Williams, Randy Williams, Roy Lee Williams, Todd Williams, Walter Williams, William T. Williams, Yvonne Williams, Philemona Williamson, Stan Williamson, Luster Willis, A. B. Wilson, Edward Wilson, Ellis Wilson, Fred Wilson, George Wilson, Henry Wilson, John Wilson, Stanley C. Wilson, Linda Windle, Eugene Winslow, Vernon Winslow, Cedric Winters, Viola Wood, Hale Woodruff, Roosevelt Woods, Shirley Woodson, Beulah Woodard, Bernard Wright, Dmitri Wright, Estella Viola Wright, George Wright, Richard Wyatt, Frank Wyley, Richard Yarde, James Yeargans, Joseph Yoakum, Bernard Young, Charles Young, Clarence Young, Kenneth Young, Milton Young. TOKYO (Japan). Terada Warehouse Exhibition Hall/International Cultural Exchange Association, Shintomi, Chuo-Ku. The Art of Black America in Japan: Afro-American Modernism, 1937-1993. September 17-27, 1987. Exhib. cat., illus. Curated by David Driskell. Included: Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Ed Clark, Tom Feelings, Margo Humphrey, Bill Hutson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Al Loving, Keith Morrison, Howardena Pindell, Stephanie Pogue, Faith Ringgold, Vincent Smith, Sylvia Snowden, Pheoris West, Charles White, Stanley Whitney, Michael Kelly Williams, William T. Williams, Richard Yarde. [Traveled to Chiba, Japan October 5-15, 1987.] TOLSON, NANCY D. Black Children's Literature Got de Blues: The Creativity of Black Writers and Illustrators. Peter Lang, 2008. 116 pp., illus. Black children’s literature published in the past forty years by authors and illustrators who can be classified as blues artists, and whose work reflects social, political, economical, and historical developments of the Black American experience. Includes: Romare Bearden, Ashley Bryan, Carole Byard, R. Gregory Christie, Alexis De Veaux, Shane Evans, Tom Feelings, Cheryl Hanna, E.B. Lewis, James Ransome, Faith Ringgold, Synthia Saint James, Javaka Steptoe, John Steptoe, and others. 8vo (8.8 x 5.9 in.). WALKER, ALICE, intro. IKON Second Series #5/6 (Winter / Summer 1986). New York: 1986. 184 pp. Special Double Issue: Art Against Apartheid: Works for Freedom. Many contributions by women artists. Includes: Candida Alvarez, Emma Amos, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Candice Hill, Valerie Maynard, Faith Ringgold, Tom Feelings, et al. Also contains 54 written pieces by Alice Walker, Toi Dericotte, Jimmie Durham, Kimiko Hahn, Audre Lorde, Lucy Lippard, and many others. 8vo, wraps. WALTERBORO (SC). Colleton County Museum. Remember Heritage II. August-September, 2003. Group exhibition. Four African American artists included: Leroy Campbell, James Denmark, Tom Feelings, Leo Twiggs. Washington (DC). Nyangoma's Gallery. Tom Feelings / Vivian R. McDuffie. January 11-February 13, 1981. Two-person exhibition. Most of Feelings's works were from "Jambo Means Hello." [Review: Elizabeth Davis, Washington Post Magazine (January 11, 1981):26.] WEISS, JACQUELINE SHACHTER. Profiles in Children's Literature. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2001. xi, 399 pp., illus. Discussions with authors, artists, and editors. Includes: Arna Bontemps, Tom Feelings, E.B. Lewis, Jerry Pinkney, and John Steptoe. 8vo (24 cm.). WESLEY, VALERIE WILSON. African-American Illustrators. 2000. In: American Visions (August 2000). Mentions with remarks from each artist: Tom Feelings, Jerry Pinkney, Leo and Diane Dillon, James E. Ransome, Yvonne Buchanan, Terrance Cummings, Overton Loyd, Pat Cummings, Carole Byard. Tom Feelings (May 19, 1933 – August 25, 2003)[1] was a cartoonist, children's book illustrator, author, teacher, and activist. He focused on the African-American experience in his work. His most famous book is The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo. Feelings was the recipient of numerous awards for his art in children's picture books. He was the first African-American artist to receive a Caldecott Honor,[2] and was the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1982.[3] Born in Brooklyn, New York, he lived in New York City, Ghana, Guyana, and Columbia, South Carolina.[3] Contents 1 Biography 2 Bibliography 2.1 Comic Books 2.2 Book Illustrations 2.3 Words and Pictures 2.4 Artists' Books 3 Awards 4 Further reading 5 References 6 External links Biography Feelings was born on May 19, 1933 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York.[1][4][5] Feelings studied cartooning at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School from 1951 to 1953 and, after serving in the Air Force working in the Graphics Division, returned to New York to study illustration at the now-renamed School of Visual Arts from 1957 to 1960.[1][3][6] His earliest known (signed) comic book work may be the story "Scandal" in Key Publication's third issue of Radiant Love (February 1953).[7] Feelings created the groundbreaking comic strip Tommy Traveler In the World of Negro History for the New York Age in 1958.[8] Tommy Traveler is a black youth's dream adventures in American history while reading of notable black heroes. This material was released in book form in 1991.[9] In 1960 Feelings illustrated The Street Where You Live, a four-color comic for the NAACP's pamphlet on voter registration.[10] Another example of Feelings's early work are the illustrations that accompanied "The Negro in the U.S." for Look Magazine, in 1961.[9][10] Feelings moved to Tema, Ghana, in 1964 and served as illustrator and consultant for the African Review, a magazine published by the Ghanaian government, until 1966.[1][4] In 1967, Feelings illustrated Crispus Attucks and the Minutemen, the third in Bertram Fitzgerald's Golden Legacy series of comic books about black history that eventually included sixteen volumes and was published until 1976.[11] Crispus Attucks, the first casualty of the American Revolution, was also one of the historical figures that Feelings included in the Tommy Traveler comic strip. From the late 1960s through the 1990s, Feelings concentrated on children's books, illustrating other authors' works as well as writing his own. Notable titles included To Be a Slave (written by Julius Lester), Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book, Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book, and The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo. Feelings was married to fellow children's book author and his frequent collaborator Muriel Feelings from 1969 to 1974.[12][13] Feelings was an artist in residence and professor of art at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC from 1990 to 1996.[1][14] Feelings died aged 70 in 2003, in Mexico, where he had been receiving treatment for cancer.[15] Bibliography Comic Books Tommy Traveler in the World of Negro History (1958-?) "Crispus Attucks and the Minutemen," Golden Legacy #3 (1967) Book Illustrations Bola and Oba's Drummer by Letta Schatz (1967) To Be a Slave by Julius Lester (1968) Zamani Goes to Market by Muriel Feelings (1970) Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book by Muriel Feelings (1971) Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book by Muriel Feelings (1974) Something on My Mind by Nikki Grimes (1978) Daydreamers by Eloise Greenfield (1981) Now Sheba Sings the Song by Maya Angelou (1987) Words and Pictures Tommy Traveler in the World of Black History by Tom Feelings (1991) Soul Looks Back in Wonder edited and illustrated by Tom Feelings (1993) The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo by Tom Feelings (1995) Artists' Books With Care[16] by Ruth E. Edwards, illustrations by Tom Feelings Awards To Be a Slave was recognized in 1969 as a Newbery Honor Book,[17] an ALA Notable Book,[18] a Hornbook Fanfare Best Book,[18] the Library of Congress Children's Literature Center Best Children's Book,[18] the School Library Journal's Best Book of the Year, and the Smithsonian Best Book of the Year. It was given a 1970 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. Feelings was a 1972 Caldecott Medal Honor recipient with his wife Muriel Feelings for their book Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book.[2] Muriel and Tom Feelings also received a 1974 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for the picture book Jambo Means Hello: A Swahili Alphabet Book.[19] Jambo Means Hello was also 1975 Caldecott Medal Honor recipient.[2] Feelings's book The Middle Passage won the 1996 Coretta Scott King Award.[20] In addition, it won a special commendation[21] at the 1996 Jane Addams Children's Book Award ceremonies. If any man should be regarded as the personification of the "black is beautiful" philosophy, that man is Tom Feelings. Feelings spent a lifetime as a painter, sculptor, and book illustrator underscoring this message. From the dawn of the U.S. civil rights era, when he came of age as an artist, Feelings was passionately committed to the mission of encouraging black children to understand their own spiritual and physical beauty. Feelings remained faithful to that mission for more than 40 years. While the "black is beautiful" creed admits that support is needed for life's downside, Feelings believes that having great joy is possible in the lives of African Americans. He acknowledges that the sorrow arising from slavery and racism–as it resonates against the joy of surviving such ordeals–expresses the uniqueness of being black in the United States. He summed up this belief in the foreword to his picture book about slavery, The Middle Passage: "As the blues, jazz, and the spirituals teach, one must embrace all of life, both its pain and joy, creatively. Knowing this, I, we, may be disappointed, but never destroyed." Devoted to developing the theme of black equality in a society that does not always practice what it preaches, Feelings left no doubt about how he wishes his work to be understood. In every book he has illustrated, whether written by him or not, he has been faithful to the statement he made in a 1985 interview with Horn Book magazine. "I bring to my work a quality which is rooted in the culture of Africa and expanded by the experience of being black in America." Drawing the Story of a Neighborhood Thomas Feelings was born in 1933, in the ultra-urban, Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York. He began to draw at age four, copying pictures from newspaper comic strips into a book of blank pages sewn together by his mother. He was just a little older when he heard about Thipadeaux, a black artist who was teaching at the Police Athletic Academy in his neighborhood. Feelings showed some of his drawings to Thipadeaux. The teacher suggested that, rather than copying from other people's work, he try to draw some of the real people in his neighborhood. Feelings began at home with oil paintings of his mother and his aunt and went on to draw the adults and the wary, diffident children he saw around him. At first, learning to draw was difficult. Thipadeaux pushed Feelings to improve, often making him draw things over and over. Nevertheless, Feelings was anxious to improve and enjoyed being treated like a serious student. When he was about nine years old, his eagerness to learn was heightened even further by the magic world of the adult library. Faced with a school assignment involving black educator Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver, a famed black inventor and scientist, Feelings was dazzled to discover that the achievements of African Americans had merited respect from Americans outside of his realm of experience. He was too young to understand the artistic importance of this discovery—that he was beginning to see his neighborhood with the eyes of the objective observer. A Mission Born Feelings's surroundings broadened after he left high school. First, courtesy of a three-year scholarship, came a period of study at the Cartoonists and Illustrators' School in New York City. Next came a four-year hitch in England for the U.S. Air Force. After his return to the United States in 1957, Feelings pursued further study at the School of Visual Arts. While there, Feelings's personal style received an unexpected boost. During a discussion of art history that ranged through the works of many artists, Feelings asked the professor why none of the artists being studied were African. He was told that African art was regarded as "primitive" rather than innovative art. Clearly, the teacher felt that a painter's method was far more important than what was being expressed. Feelings refused to accept that as a lesson worth studying, so he walked out of the room. Feelings returned to the world of the comic strip to bring the achievements of black Americans to the world's attention. His creation, Tommy Traveler in the World of Negro History, began to appear in New York Age, a Harlem newspaper with a black reader-ship. Reproduced in 1991, Tommy Traveler told the story of a black boy who read his way through all the library's books on African American history. Referred by the librarian to a book collector named Dr. Gray, an awed Feelings was able to imagine himself back into the lifetimes of Frederick Douglass, Phoebe Fraunces, and other celebrated African Americans. The strip ran for about one year, but Feelings eventually discontinued it because the story form was too restrictive to display his reactions to the world around him. By 1961 Feelings finished art school with an extensive portfolio. He tried to obtain freelance assignments but was often told by editors that he was limiting his chances by concentrating solely on black subjects. Encouraged by the magazines Freedomways and The Liberator, both with wide black readerships, he continued to concentrate on African Americans and their lives. In 1962 his determination was rewarded by an assignment that would appear in Look magazine. While on assignment for Look, Feelings traveled to New Orleans, Louisiana. Despite the fact that he had to stay in a segregated hotel, he found the children happier and more relaxed as a result of the sunlight and the abundant food. This difference showed in his pictures of the children, who looked far less vigilant and tense than their New York City counterparts. Feelings did not forget to convey the sad truth that went along with these pleasures–blacks in the South seemed to have no more control over their lives than they did in the North. African is Beautiful The awakening spirit of African self-worth in the United States—symbolized by Rosa Parks's 1955 refusal to give up her bus seat—appeared even more strongly in Africa, where many former European colonies overthrew their oppressors. In 1957 Ghana gained independence. The new head of state, Kwame Nkrumah, made known his desire for an international cadre of black educators who could take his people by the hand and point them toward a future of profitable self-determination. At a Glance … Born Thomas Feelings on May 19, 1933, in Brooklyn, NY; died on August 25, 2003; son of Samuel (a cab driver) and Anna Nash (Morris) Feelings; married Muriel Grey (a school teacher and author), 1968 (divorced, 1974); children: two sons, Zamani and Kamili. Education: Cartoonists and Illustrators' School, New York, NY, 1951-53; School of Visual Art, New York, NY, 1957-60. Military Service: U.S. Air Force, illustrator in Graphics Division, London, England, 1953-57. Career: New York Age, creator and writer of Tommy Traveler in the World of Black History comic strip, 1958-59; freelance illustrator and contributor to various magazines, 1961-64; Ghanian government, illustrator for African Review, 1964-66; illustration instructor, art consultant, Tema, Ghana, 1964-66; Ministry of Education, teacher and consultant, Guyana, 1971-74; University of South Carolina, artist in residence, 1990-95. Memberships: Schomburg Center for Research. Awards: Newbery Honor, for To Be a Slave, 1969; Caldecott Honor Book, 1972, for Moja Means One; Outstanding Achievement Award, School of Visual Arts, 1974; Coretta Scott King Award, for Something on My Mind, 1979; Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, National Endowment of the Arts, 1982; National Book Award nomination for Jambo Means Hello, 1982; Distinguished Service to Children Through Art award, University of South Carolina, 1991; Coretta Scott King Award, for Soul Looks Back in Wonder, 1994; Coretta Scott King Award, for The Middle Passage, 1996. In 1964 Tom Feelings went to the Ghanian city of Tema to join other African Americans recruited by the Nkrumah government. He worked both for the government's magazine, African Review, and as a children's book illustrator. Feelings exulted in being among the majority and in achieving his most important goal—to aid in the production of positive images for black children. As Feelings told Horn Book magazine in 1985, "Africa helped make my drawings more fluid and flowing; rhythmic lines started to appear in my work." Some of this new movement appears in illustrations of robed Ghanian women that he painted for his 1972 autobiography Black Pilgrimage. Proud and graceful, they often seem to be on the point of swirling off the page. Another picture in the book shows the same state of mind. Against a forest background of gentle greens and beiges, women in Western dress with baskets on their heads actually seem to sway in unison along a path. Ghana proved an idyllic setting for the developing artist. The entire experience was a spiritual odyssey for Feelings. He knew that Africa was the homeland of his people as well as the cradle of civilization before the European slave-traders had docked there. His closeness to such history strengthened the bond he had always felt. It brought home to him the most enduring lesson about himself that he was ever to share. Feelings explained in Black Pilgrimage: "I am an African, and I know now that black people, no matter in what part of the world they may live, are one African people." New Worlds to Conquer In 1966 Nkrumah was ousted by a coup d'etat. Feelings returned to the United States to find that the publishing industry had changed significantly. The blossoming civil rights movement had produced an insatiable hunger for African American history, literature, and especially children's books suitable for both recreational reading and teaching purposes. Educators' research had revealed a shameful scarcity of material with accurate representations of black dialogue and black people–stereotypes still dominated the written word. As a result, new emphasis was placed on literature of only the highest quality to be produced with black children in mind. New children's bookshops worked to supply the burgeoning market. Their demand in turn brought a wider scope to publishers, who eagerly produced a growing number of books for and about different cultures. It was a fertile environment for a culturally-oriented artist able to offer authentic visions of Africa. Buttressed by an overflowing portfolio, Feelings started to illustrate children's picture books immediately. First came Bola and the Oba's Drummers from McGraw-Hill; then in 1971 he illustrated Moja Means One: A Swahili Counting Book. The book proved to be a turning point. The text, written by his wife Muriel, explained the numbers in Swahili, a language spoken by millions of people in East Africa. Feelings's drawings gave African American children an authentic feel for a different culture by introducing them to Kenyan landmarks and cultural features in particular. Many reviewers agreed that the drawings were beautiful and instructive, so much so that they expanded the book's original marketability. Praise for the book was not universal, however. Sidney Long, writing in Horn Book magazine, noted that the drawing technique sometimes seemed too sophisticated for its intended readers—between six to eight years of age. The sophistication, he claimed, made it difficult to find the objects to be counted. A second reviewer criticized the appropriateness of the muted grey and ocher colorings of most of the pictures. Feelings explained that he simply wanted to make his work stand out in quiet comparison to all the bright reds, blues, and greens other picture-book illustrators used. Applauded for Cultural Achievement The following year Moja Means One was chosen as a Caldecott Honor selection, marking it as a runner-up for the Caldecott Medal. Named in honor of Randolph Caldecott, an English picture book illustrator who died in 1886, the award has been a mark of excellence in children's literature since it was established in 1938. The accolade to Moja Means One ensured that Feelings was on his way to professional success. Feelings was also on his way to Guyana, a former British colony in South America that had once done a brisk business in slaves from Ghana. The Guyanese government in 1971 intended to instill its own educators and people with pride and patriotism while providing them with the modern education accessible to more industrialized nations. Feelings joined in the effort partly to complete the spiritual quest he had begun with his journey to Ghana. Feelings headed the Guyanese Ministry of Education's newly-created children's book project while also training young government illustrators. Since the country possessed printing presses capable of reproducing only two-color work, he found the work challenging. He did not quit, however. Instead, he "rediscovered the lesson of improvising within a restrictive form," as he noted in Horn Book magazine. Feelings did leave Guyana and the government project there in 1974 in order to return to the United States. By the mid-1970s Feelings had illustrated six books, including a volume of diary extracts collected by Julius Lester, called To Be a Slave. Shortly thereafter, he was asked to do ten color illustrations for a new edition of Booker T. Washington's autobiography, Up from Slavery. Despite the tragic subject, Feelings found himself continually painting pictures in warm and radiant colors that were quite inappropriate to such a project. Knowing these pictures would convey a falsely positive image of slavery, he cancelled the contract. Multi-Generational Picturebooks If the 1970s had been a time of new experiences, the 1980s found Feelings firmly grasping the themes that had been germinating within his work since his youth in Bedford-Stuyvesant. His autobiography, Black Pilgrimage, records a conversation with an eight-year-old girl that proved unforgettable for the artist. Feelings tried to explain to her that his drawings were of "pretty little black children, like you." The young girl expressed her refusal to see anything beautiful about the black children, replying, "Ain't nothin' black pretty." Feelings's lifelong dedication to the beauty of African people and their descendants graphically illustrated his inability to accept such a hateful attitude. In 1981 Feelings's urge to show readers the potential and the intelligence of black children blossomed into Daydreamers, a book filled with the drawings of 20 years accompanying a poem by Eloise Greenfield. Daydreamers marked the beginning of a conscious effort by Feelings to appeal to adults as well as to the elementary-school-age children for whom the book was intended. This appeal to adult/junior readership came across even more strongly in Now Sheba Sings the Song, published in 1987, in which Feelings collaborated with poet laureate of the United States, Maya Angelou. Warming to the idea of a multi-generational reader-ship, Feelings used short poems about children by several black authors for his 1993 publication, Soul Looks Back in Wonder. In addition to another Maya Angelou poem, there was a never-before published poem by Langston Hughes, who had died in 1967. Margaret Walker, whose 1966 novel Jubilee had become a classical description of American life under slavery, also contributed text. Though publishers and reviewers considered Soul Looks Back in Wonder most appropriate for children in grades three through six, one reviewer noted that several of the poems in the collection probably would appeal more to adults than to children. This divided readership is purely intentional, reflecting Feelings's profound belief that adults must help smooth the way for children. "Young black kids really are having a hard time nowadays," he said in Sandlapper magazine. "That's why I made this book [Soul Looks Back in Wonder]." The Middle Passage Feelings's 1995 masterpiece, The Middle Passage, is illustrated in his trademark style of understated color tones ranging from cream to storm-cloud charcoal to black. The book depicts the journey on slave ships from Africa through the middle passage to the Caribbean and North America. With realistic details and no text to explicate his drawings, Feelings shows the terror and horror of slavery. The slaves were shackled together between decks, many were killed by sharks while trying to escape, and torture and starvation were used to force submission to the ships' overseers. In The Middle Passage Feelings tried to tell the whole truth about slavery. He won a Coretta Scott King Award for the book's illustrations in 1996. Though the Guyanese Ministry of Education was emphatic about the need for children to know the truth in their history books, Feelings found it impossible to work on The Middle Passage while he worked for them. His return to the United States allowed him to fathom the reason. "I had to be in a place that constantly reminded me of what I was working on and why I was working on it," he wrote in the introduction to The Middle Passage. "For me that was New York City. That's where the pain was." Despite the grim visions of inhumanity that are illuminated in The Middle Passage, in the book's introduction, Feelings encourages African Americans not to feel depressed by them. "They should be uplifted and say to themselves: 'You mean we survived this? We made it through all this and we are still here today?'" After retiring from the University of South Carolina, where he taught book illustration, Feelings continued to caution black children never to waste their own potential. He died of cancer in 2003 in Mexico. Read more: Tom Feelings Biography - Drawing the Story of a Neighborhood, A Mission Born, African is Beautiful, New Worlds to Conquer - JRank Articles https://biography.jrank.org/pages/2346/Feelings-Tom.html#ixzz6lGH1kjGp A native of Brooklyn, New York, Feelings attended the school of Visual Arts for two years and then joined the Air Force in 1953, working in London as a staff artist for the Graphics Division of the Third Air Force. From 1959 until 1964 he worked as a freelance artist, his primary subjects drawn from the Black people of his community. In 1961, he went south to draw the people of Black rural communities: some of these drawings were published in Look magazine as part of a feature entitled "The Negro in the U.S." In 1964, Feelings traveled to Ghana, where he spent two years working for the Ghana  in_memory_of.gif (1698 bytes) USC McKissick Museum Honors Artist Tom Feelings   government's magazine, The African Review, teaching illustration, and serving as an art consultant for the government publishing house. In 1966, he returned to the United States to concentrate on illustrating books with African and African-American themes. To Be a Slave, written by Julius Lester and illustrated by Feelings, was chosen as the 1969 Newberry Honor Book, and was the first book of its kind to receive such an award. From 1971 - 1974. Feelings lived in Guyana, South America, working as a teacher and consultant for the Ministry of Education, and training young artists in textbook illustration. Feelings received numerous awards for his illustrations. "Moja Means One," a Swahili counting book, and "Jambo Means Hello," a Swahili alphabet book, both written by Muriel Feelings, were chosen as Caldecott Honor Books in 1972 and 1974 and earned Brooklyn Arts Awards for Children citations from the Brooklyn Museum. "Jambo Means Hello" also won a Biennial of Illustrations award in Bratislava, Yugoslavia, The Horn Book Award from the Boston Globe in 1974, and a nomination for the American Book Award in 1982. "Something on My Mind" won the Coretta Scott King Award in 1978. The School of Visual Arts recognized him with its Outstanding Achievement Award in 1974. He has received eight Certificates of Merit from The Society of Illustrators, along with a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grant in 1982. Feelings has been featured on numerous television programs. In 1974, Feelings returned to New York, spending his time lecturing, attending exhibits throughout the country, and working on a book entitled "The Middle Passage," which depicts the journeys of slaves from Africa to America. In His Own Words "When I am asked what kind of work I do, my answer is that I am a storyteller, in picture form, who tries to reflect and interpret the lives and experiences of the people that gave me life. When I am asked who I am, I say, I am an African who was born in America. Both answers connect me specifically with my past and present ... therefore I bring to my art a quality which is rooted in the culture of Africa ... and expanded by the experience of being in America. I use the vehicle of 'fine art' and 'illustration' as a viable expression of form, yet striving always to do this from an African perspective, an African world view, and above all to tell the African story ... this is my content. The struggle to create artwork as well as to live creatively under any conditions and survive (like my ancestors), embodies my particular heritage in America." Tom Feelings was born 19 May 1933 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York. He was the son of Samuel (a cab driver) and Anna Nash (Morris) Feelings. He drew from an early age and at four was copying comic strip images onto books sewn together by his mother. There was an artist teaching at the local Police Athletic Acadamy named Thipadeaux who took an interest in his work and encouraged him to draw from life, rather than copy others’ work. Thipadeaux was a serious teacher, encouraging Tom to constantly redraw and rethink what he was doing. Tom was an avid student who welcomed the challenge and was also a strong reader who used the adult library at age nine to discover that Africans had made great contributions to society both here in America and across the globe. After high school, Tom was given a three-year scholarship at Cartoonist and Illustrators’ School (now the School of Visual Arts) He was apparently making the rounds of comic publishers during this time, and sold at least three pieces. His earliest known credit is Radiant Love 3, February 1953, and he also received signed credit in All True Romance 14, November 1953 and Mister Mystery 14, November – December 1953. The existing work shows a strong sense of comic books, polished by his studies at C&I. feelingsPage11_AllTrueRomance014feelingsMister Mystery # 14003 Feelings however, joined the Air Force and served four years in England before returning to the US to continue his education. He returned to Cartoonists & Illustrators School, and graduated in 1961 with an extensive portfolio. He had walked out of one class in art history when told by a professor that African art was considered ‘primitive’ and not ‘innovative’, and now he was being told by art directors that he would be more successful if he didn’t depict only African American subjects, but he had a vision of Afro-centric art that was rooted in his own life, culture and neighborhood. The lessons he’d learned as a child from Thipadeaux were still with him, and the world would catch up eventually. He was clear about himself in a 1985 interview with Horn Book magazine. “I bring to my work a quality which is rooted in the culture of Africa and expanded by the experience of being black in America.” In 1958 Tom wrote and drew the comic strip Tommy Traveler in the World of Black History for the New York Age, a Harlem paper, based on his own experiences at age nine discovering the true stories of black adventurers, cowboys and scientists at his library. The strips were collected in book form in 1991. In 1960 Tom drew the comic The Street Where You Live, published by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Considering his skill as a writer, there’s no reason to assume he didn’t write it, but no writing credit is given. street1 The Street Where You Live is a beautiful book. Sixteen full sized, full colored pages. The story involves a group of black citizens who organize to better their neighborhood, and who see positive changes and vow to continue to organize and vote regularly. street3 The story is full of natural dialogue, from the opening frustration of ‘If only we had a decent neighborhood to bring our kids up in, like they do on the other side of town’ to the closing promises of ‘We can get all our civil rights! We can break down Jim Crow! We can get better housing — better working conditions!’ , the story reads clearly and easily, and makes its educational points well. The art is clear and well designed and the work of a mature pro. Mr Feelings’ art is strong and expressive, and his compositions realistic and full of detail. Tom Feelings became known for more formal works, but to a comic fan, this is his masterpiece. This is where his politics, his love of children and community and his understanding of himself as an African American come together. This is real art. There is no artifice or commercialism here. During the early 1960s he contributed to the magazines Freedomways and the Liberator, both of which had large black readerships and didn’t mind art that reflected their own lives. By 1962 the editors at Look Magazine decided that maybe it wasn’t so odd that a black American artist would chose black American subjects, and Tom was sent to Louisiana where he stayed in a segregated Motel while he drew and painted the children of New Orleans. In 1964 Kwame Nkrumah was the first president of Ghana. Born in Africa and educated in the United States, Nkrumah was an intellectual and a radical. Feelings traveled to Ghana at the invitation of the government. He worked on the official magazine, the African Review and illustrated children’s books. He was very aware of the importance of giving kids a beautiful image of themselves, and worked hard to do that. He felt connected and productive in Ghana, but Nkrumah was overthrown by a military coup in 1966 and Feelings returned to the United States. By 1966 Tom’s Afro-centric sensibilities didn’t seem so unusual, and he illustrated the children’s book Bola and the Oba’s Drummers soon after arriving. About this time he met Bertram A Fitzgerald, who was starting his Golden Legacy series of black history comics, and Tom worked with Joan Bacchus Maynard on the second issue, The Saga of Harriet Tubman. Ms. Maynard is widely recognized for her work in preserving the historic black community of Weeksville in Brooklyn. She wrote and illustrated the book, with Tom providing the inks. Joan Bacchus Maynard Tom wrote the third issue and the art is credited to him and golden-age artist Ezra Jackson. Fitzgerald recalled that at that time Tom had already done a previous feature on Crispus Attucks, the first American casualty of the Revolutionary War, and it was adapted for the comic series. Crispus Attucks was also one of the subjects of the Tommy Traveler series. His second book of illustrations was for Moja Means One; A Swahili Counting book, written by his wife , Muriel, who he married in 1968. The book was chosen in 1971 as a Caldecott Honor winner, a prestigious children’s book award. Tom and Muriel won a second Caldecott Honor in 1975 for Jambo Means Hello. Muriel Feelings Tom was off to Guyana in 1971 to work for the Ministry of Education to produce children’s books and train artists. Despite antiquated two-color printing presses, he ‘learned to improvise in a restricted form’ before returning to the US in 1974. He and Muriel were divorced around this time. Tom continued to work, and despite commercial success he always kept a certain kind of purity about his vision, once canceling a contract for a reprint of Booker T Washington’s Up From Slavery, because he couldn’t reconcile the realities of slavery with the sanitized optimism of the commercial art. But he was still meeting children that didn’t see a reflection of their own beauty in the culture at large, and didn’t recognize it in his work, and that made him more determined to keep that vision pure. tomfeelingsdaydreamers He continued working through the 70s and 80s and when The Middle Passage was published in 1995 he had illustrated at least a dozen books, and collaborated with such notables as Maya Angelou, the poet-laureate  of the United States and Langston Hughes and won half a dozen major artistic and literary awards. tomfeelingsmiddlepassagea The Middle Passage is considered his masterpiece. It’s certainly one that comic fans can appreciate. The journey of people sold out of Africa and transported to the Caribbean and North America slave market is told in stark graphic detail, with no text.  It’s a beautiful book and it won the Coretta Scott King Award for the illustrations in 1996. tomfeelingsmidb Tom retired from the University of South Carolina, where he was an artist in residence, teaching book illustration. He died in 2001 of cancer in Mexico, where he was undergoing treatment. His obituary in the New York Times credited him with the illustrations to 20 books. Muriel Feelings, his ex-wife and artistic collaborator died in Philadelphia 30 September 2011. Mrs Feelings was born Muriel Grey in Philadelphia, the daughter of Ada Erwin and Clifford Grey. She attended Philadelphia schools and then the Philadelphia Museum School of Art, later known as the University of the Arts. She graduated from Los Angeles State College, now California State University, Los Angeles, earning a bachelor’s degree in art with minors in Spanish and education. After graduation, Ms. Feelings taught at public schools in Philadelphia and New York. Tom Feelings was an artist in a way that many artists are not. He understood himself as an artist and he believed that art has a function beyond decoration. He used his art as a tool for communication and social change, and he was dedicated toward social change. He said it clearly when talking about The Middle Passage to the Atlanta Chronicle  ”I clearly did this book for black people so it would be something that inspires them. This book is also for whites who claim they can’t recognize what racism feels like.” Tom was well known as an artist and writer, and obviously competent as a teacher and administrator. No mention of his comic work is made in any of the biographic pieces I found, yet he was an excellent cartoonist. His award winning The Middle Passage is indeed a beautiful book. Articulate without words, full of beautiful compositions and horrific detail. Once you know his work as a cartoonist, you can see that book as  a continuation of the home-made books his mother sewed for him when he was a child. passage1_s   I spoke to his ex-wife Muriel shortly before her death. She was sweet and courteous and spoke of Tom fondly with great admiration for his talent, but couldn’t tell me anything about his comic book work. It was a surprise to her. It was all done before she knew him, and he never considered the past as much as the future, she told me.
Julius Bernard Lester (January 27, 1939 – January 18, 2018) was an American writer of books for children and adults[1] and an academic who taught for 32 years (1971–2003) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Lester was also a civil rights activist, a photographer,[2] and a musician who recorded two albums of folk music and original songs.[3] Contents 1 Early life and family 2 Civil rights years 3 Conversion to Judaism 4 Academic career 4.1 Creative endeavors 4.2 Death 5 Written works 6 Awards 6.1 Book awards 6.2 Other awards 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External links Early life and family Born on January 27, 1939, St. Louis, Missouri, Julius Lester was the son of W. D. Lester, a Methodist minister, and Julia (Smith) Lester. The family moved to Kansas City, Kansas, in 1941, and to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1952. In 1960 he received his BA from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, with a major in English and minors in Art and Spanish.[4] In 1961 he moved to New York City where he was a folk singer and a photographer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.[5] Lester was married to Joan Steinau. They had two children, Jody Simone (1965) and Malcolm Coltrane (1967). They divorced in 1970. In 1979 he married Alida Carolyn Fechner, who had a daughter, Elena Milad. Fechner and Lester had a son together named David Julius.[citation needed] They divorced in 1991. He married Milan Sabatini in 1995. His stepdaughter from this marriage is Lián Amaris.[citation needed] Civil rights years During college, Lester became involved in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Among his major efforts in those years was participation in the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project. His experiences during “Freedom Summer” were documented in a 2014 documentary “The Folk Singer,” airing as part of the American Experience series on PBS. Lester also traveled to North Vietnam with SNCC to photograph and write about the damage caused by U.S. bombing missions there. During his New York years, Lester hosted Uncle Tom's Cabin, a radio show on WBAI-FM (1968–75); and co-hosted (with Jonathan Black) Free Time, a television show on WNET-NY (Channel 13), for two years. He recorded two albums of traditional and original songs for Vanguard Records: Julius Lester (1966) and Departures (1967).[6] And he performed on the coffeehouse circuit. A compilation of songs from both albums was released on a CD, Dressed Like Freedom, on Ace Records in 2007. Lester's 1966 essay "The Angry Children of Malcolm X," is considered one of the definitive African-American statements of its era.[7] As his reputation grew, Lester wrote Look Out, Whitey! Black Power’s Gon’ Get Your Mama! (Dial, 1968), which he characterized as the “first book about the black power movement by someone inside the black power movement”.[8] Conversion to Judaism In 1982 Lester converted to Judaism.[9][10] He has said that his conversion journey began when he was seven and learned that his maternal great-grandfather, Adolph Altschul, was a Jewish immigrant from Germany, who married a freed slave.[11] He adopted the Hebrew name Yaakov Daniel ben Avraham v’Sarah.[12] He was a leader of the Beth El Synagogue in St. Johnsbury, Vermont from 1991-2001.[5] Academic career From 1968 to 1970, alongside his activities as a radio host in New York, Lester taught Afro-American history at the New School for Social Research.[13] In 1971 he began teaching at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a visiting lecturer in the Afro-American Studies department; he became an associate professor in the department in 1975 and a full professor in 1977.[14] In 1988, Lester came into conflict with his colleagues in the Afro-American Studies department upon the publication of his book Lovesong, which chronicles his conversion to Judaism. In the book he refers to a lecture at the university by the renowned author James Baldwin several years earlier, and characterizes certain remarks that Baldwin made as antisemitic.[9][15][16] In March 1988, in a unanimous step, the Afro-American Studies faculty wrote a letter to the university administration recommending that Lester be reassigned to a different department.[17][18] Following negotiations that involved the chancellor of the university, the dean of the faculty, and Lester himself,[18] Lester transferred to the Judaic and Near Eastern Studies department (where he had held a joint appointment since 1982),[14] and remained there for the rest of his university career, until his retirement at the end of 2003.[15][16] During his 32 years at the university, Lester taught courses in five departments: Comparative Literature ("Black and White Southern Fiction"), English ("Religion in Western Literature"), Afro-American Studies ("The Writings of W. E. B. Du Bois"), ("Writings of James Baldwin"), ("Literature of the Harlem Renaissance"), ("Blacks and Jews: A Comparative Study"), and Judaic Studies ("Biblical Tales and Legends") and ("The Writings of Elie Wiesel"), History ("Social Change and the 1960s"), one of the university's largest and most popular courses. Lester was awarded all three of the university's most prestigious faculty awards: the Distinguished Teacher's Award, the Faculty Fellowship Award for Distinguished Research and Scholarship, and the Chancellor's Medal, the university's highest honor.[13] The Council for Advancement and Support of Education selected him as the Massachusetts State Professor of the Year 1986.[13] Creative endeavors In addition to performing songs and recording albums, Lester wrote eight nonfiction books, 31 children's books, one book of poetry and photographs (with David Gahr), and three adult novels. His first book was an instructional guide to playing the 12-string guitar, co-authored with Pete Seeger.[6] Among the awards his books received were the Newbery Honor, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Coretta Scott King Award, National Book Award finalist, ALA Notable Book, National Jewish Book Award finalist, National Book Critics Circle Honor Book, and the New York Times Outstanding Book Award. His books have been translated into eight languages.[13][19] He published more than 200 essays and book and film reviews for such publications as The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Op-Ed page, The Boston Globe, Village Voice, The New Republic, Sing Out!, Moment, Forward and Dissent.[13][6] His photographs have been included in an exhibit of images from the civil rights movement at the Smithsonian Institution. He had solo shows at the University of Massachusetts Student Union Gallery, the Forbes Library, Northampton, Mass., Valley Photo Center, Springfield, Mass., and the Robert Floyd Photography Gallery, Southampton, Mass.[20] Death Lester died of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on January 18, 2018 after a brief hospitalization.[11][15][21] Written works The Folksinger's Guide to the 12-String Guitar as Played by Leadbelly, Lester and Pete Seeger (1965) Look Out, Whitey! Black Power Gon' Get Your Mama (1968) To Be a Slave (1968) Search for the New Land (1969) Revolutionary Notes (1969) Black Folktales (1969) The Seventh Son: The Thoughts and Writings of W. E. B. DuBois (1971) Two Love Stories (1972) Long Journey Home: Stories from Black History (1972) The Knee-High Man and Other Tales, illustrations by Ralph Pinto (1972) Who I Am, photographs by David Gahr (1974) All Is Well (1976) This Strange New Feeling (1982) Do Lord Remember Me (1984) The Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit, illus. Jerry Pinkney (1987) Lovesong: Becoming a Jew (1988) More Tales of Uncle Remus: Further Adventures of Brer Rabbit, His Friends, Enemies, and Others, illus. Jerry Pinkney (1988) How Many Spots Does a Leopard Have and other Tales, illus. David Shannon (1989) Further Tales of Uncle Remus: The Misadventures of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, Brer Wolf, the Doodang, and Other Creatures, illus. Jerry Pinkney (1990) Falling Pieces of the Broken Sky (1990) The Last Tales of Uncle Remus, illus. Jerry Pinkney (1994) The Man Who Knew Too Much, illus. Leonard Jenkins (1994) And All Our Wounds Forgiven (1994) John Henry, illus. Jerry Pinkney (1994) Othello: A Novel (1995) Sam and the Tigers, illus. Jerry Pinkney (1996) From Slaveship to Freedom Road, paintings by Rod Brown (1998) Black Cowboy, Wild Horses: A True Story, illus. Jerry Pinkney (1998) What a Truly Cool World, illus. Joe Cepeda (1999) When the Beginning Began, illus. Emily Lisker (1999) Albidaro and the Mischievous Dream, illus. Jerry Pinkney (2000) Pharaoh's Daughter: A Novel (2000) The Blues Singers: Ten Who Rocker the World, illus. Lisa Cohen (2001) When Dad Killed Mom (2001) Ackamarackus: Julius Lester's Sumptuously Silly Fantastically Funny Fables, illus. Emilie Chollat (2001) Why Heaven Is Far Away, illus. Joe Cependa (2002) Shining, illus. John Clapp (2003) The Autobiography of God (2004) Let's Talk About Race, illus. Karen Barbour (2005) On Writing for Children and Other People (2005) Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue (2005) The Old African, illus. Jerry Pinkney (2005) Time's Memory (2006) Cupid: A Novel (2007) Guardian (2008) The Hungry Ghosts (2009) The Girl Who Saved Yesterday (2016)[22] Awards Book awards Newbery Honor, 1969, and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, 1971, both for To Be a Slave Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, 1972, and National Book Award finalist, 1973, both for The Long Journey Home: Stories from Black History Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, 1973, for The Knee-high Man and Other Tales Coretta Scott King honor, 1983, for This Strange New Feeling, and 1988, for Tales of Uncle Remus: The Adventures of Brer Rabbit Parents' Choice Story Book award, 1987, for The Tales of Uncle Remus, and 1990, for Further Tales of Uncle Remus Reading Magic Award, 1988, for More Tales of Uncle Remus Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, American Library Association Notable Book, and Caldecott Honor, all 1995, all for John Henry ALA Notable Book, 1996, for Sam and the Tigers: A New Telling of Little Black Sambo, illustrated by Jerry Pinkney – runner-up for the 2016 Phoenix Picture Book Award[23] Coretta Scott King Award, 2006, for his novel Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue[24] Other awards Distinguished Teacher's Award, 1983–84 Faculty Fellowship Award for Distinguished Research and Scholarship, 1985 National Professor of the Year Silver Medal Award, Council for Advancement and Support of Education, 1985 Massachusetts State Professor of the Year and Gold Medal Award for National Professor of the Year, Council for Advancement and Support of Education, both 1986 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, 1986–87.
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