Exhibition schedule: Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, January 14–March 26, 2006; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, April 21–July 17, 2006; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, August 25–November 26, 2006
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Exhibition schedule: Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, January 14–March 26, 2006; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, April 21–July 17, 2006; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, August 25–November 26, 2006
Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century is an important contribution to the growing literature on race and visual representation in American culture. The beautifully illustrated catalogue includes three essays by guest curator Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw (Associate Professor of History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania), two of which expand upon the ideas in her first...