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Description:: Alison Saar is an African American artist who seeks to clearly communicate her ideas and emotions through the power of form. Her sculptures have their own personal vocabulary that speaks in a direct language about history, race, and mythology. Her works tell the stories of the African American experience over time and space. She is the daughter of assemblage artist Betye Saar.
Date:: [circa 1990]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Gray, Todd, 1954-
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Beulah Ecton Woodard was an African-American sculptor and painter in California who specialized in African subjects. The first African American artist to show her work at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, she founded the Los Angeles Negro Art Association (1937).
Date:: [circa 1949]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Beverly A. Johnson was a caterer in Sacramento. He and his wife, Rachael, had five children: Ernest H. Johnson, the first African American student at Stanford University; Helena Theresa Johnson Harper; Belle Johnson Butler; and Louise V. Johnson McCard; Harry L. Johnson.
Date:: [1890-1910]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Beverly McCard with his wife, Gertrude, his infant son, Beverly, and an elderly man on the steps of the house of the caterer Beverly Johnson.
Date:: [circa 1928]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Biddy Mason was brought to California as a slave in a wagon train. She petitioned for her freedom, and a judge granted it to her and her family in 1856. She and her family lived with Robert Owens, Sr., when she first moved to Los Angeles. Her daughter Ellen married Robert Owen's son Charles.
Date:: [circa 1870]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Detail of a larger image: A woman and child behind a picket fence, on the front porch of the house of Robert Owens, Sr.
Date:: [circa 1870]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Biddy Mason (center, left with white collar), her daughter Ellen Mason Owens (1st from right), and others behind a picket fence, on the front porch of the house of Robert Owens, Sr.
Date:: [circa 1870]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Biddy Mason was brought to California as a slave in a wagon train. She petitioned for her freedom, and a judge granted it to her and her family in 1856. She and her family lived with Robert Owens, Sr., when she first moved to Los Angeles. Her daughter Ellen married Robert Owen's son Charles.
Date:: [circa 1870]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Robinson in a standing dance poise with his oversized shadow on the wall behind him.
Date:: [circa 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Grafton Tyler Brown was an African American who artist worked as a lithographer, cartographer and landscape painter capturing images of landscapes in the northwest United States, and British Columbia.
Date:: [circa 1975]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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