Slide Images for November 4

 Slow Down Freight Train

Rose Piper

1946

 Art of the Negro: Native Forms

Hale A. Woodruff

1950-51

 Afro Emblems

Hale A. Woodruff

1950

 Blue Intrusion

Hale A. Woodruff

1958

 Every Atom Glows: Electrons In Luminous Vibration

Norman Lewis

1951

 Harlem Turns White

Norman Lewis

1955

 Evening Rendezvous

Norman Lewis

1962

 Blue is the Smoke of War, White the Bones of Men

Romare Bearden

c. 1960

…I Have A Special Fear for My Loved Ones

Elizabeth Catlett

1946

Sharecropper

Elizabeth Catlett

1952

O, Mary, Don’t You Weep

Charles White

1964

Terms of the Day for November 4

• The Baby Boom –  in the United States, this term most often refers to the post-World War II baby boom (1946–1964). An estimated 78.3 million Americans were born during this demographic boom in births.
• Abstract Expressionism – the first specifically American art movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, it combined the emotional intensity of German Expressionism with the abstraction of Futurism and Synthetic Cubism.

Lecture Slides for November 2

Mutiny Aboard the Amistad, 1839

Hale A. Woodruff

1939

Migration of the Negro, Panel 1: During the World War there was a Great Migration North by Southern Negroes

Jacob Lawrence

1940-41

Migration of the Negro, Panel 50: Race Riots were Numerous.  White Workers Were Hostile Toward the Migrants Who Had Been Hired to Break Strikes

Jacob Lawrence

1940-41

Migration of the Negro, Panel 57: The female worker was also one of the last groups to leave the South

Jacob Lawrence

1940-41

Café

William H. Johnson

c. 1939-40

Going to Church
William H. Johnson
c. 1940-41

Dinah

Louis Armstrong and his band

c. 1930s

Poster for ‘Cabin in the Sky’

Directed by Vincente Minnelli

1943

Clips from Cabin in the Sky

Directed by Vincente Minnelli

1943

Room No. VII

Eldzier Cortor

1948

The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly

James Hampton

c. 1950-64