Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power

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Notes

1 Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties was organized by Teresa A. Carbone, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art, Brooklyn Museum and Kellie Jones, Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University. It showed at Brooklyn Museum 6 March–13 July 2014, before touring.

2 The exhibition ran at the California Afro-American Museum in Los Angeles from April–October 1989 and included art by Alonzo Davis, David Hammons, Suzanne Jackson, Noah Purifoy, John Outerbridge, John T. Riddle, Jr., Betye Saar, Timothy Washington and Charles White.

3 Iwona Blazwick, Andrea Tarzia and Stephen Snoddy, “Preface” in Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary (London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2005), 7. This was a large-scale exhibition held at Whitechapel Art Gallery, 7 June–4 September and subsequently at the New Art Gallery Walsall in 2005. It was a major centrepiece of Africa 05 and was curated by David A. Bailey (UK), Richard J. Powell (USA) and Petrine Archer-Straw (Jamaica).

4 Exhibition brochure, unpaginated.

5 It featured the work of Frank Bowling, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Ed Clark, Melvin Edwards, Fred Eversley, Sam Gilliam, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Tom Lloyd, Al Loving, Joe Overstreet, Howardena Pindell, Haywood Bill Rivers, Alma Thomas, Jack Whitten and William T. Williams.