Roll Call: Two Hundred Years of Black American Art

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The volume features over 250 artworks across various media, paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, quilts, and mixed-media works, by artists living and working both in Alabama, and across the wider United States, including David Driskell, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Robert S. Duncanson, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mary Frances Whitfield, Trena Banks, Purvis Young, Glenn Ligon, Edmonia Lewis, Lorna Simpson, Chakaia Booker, Sam Gilliam, Kerry James Marshall, Joshua Johnson, Nick Cave, Elizabeth Catlett, Amalia Amaki, and Carrie Mae Weems.

AUTHORS:
Katelyn D. Crawford is The William Cary Hulsey Curator of American Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL.

Jade Powers is the Hugh Kaul Curator of Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL.

Kelli Morgan is the Founding Executive Director of the Black Artists Archive in Detroit.

Imani Perry is the Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor in African & African American Studies and the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

Laura Woodard is librarian and archivist, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL.

290 colour illustrations

ISBN: 9781917273190
Author: POWERS, JADE
Format: Hardcover
Publication date: 01/12/2026
RRP: $125.00
Pages: 432
Dimension: 279mm X 241mm
Imprint: Giles