Subject Topic: African American artists - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Beckwourth Pass was discovered by James P. Beckwourth in 1850. Beckwourth developed Beckwourth Trail, traversing the pass, that was used by immigrants during the Gold Rush from 1851 to 1855. After that, the railroad came into use.
Date:: August 1948
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:: [undated]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Photograph of a Dolly N. Townsend wearing a necklace and corsage.
Date:: [1920-1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: William E. Smith was an African American painter and graphic artist. He is known for his depression era artwork depicting the hardships of rural and working class African Americans.
Date:: [1950-1989]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Biography of Grafton Tyler Brown by Marjorie Arkelian in "The Kahn Collection of Nineteenth-Century Paintings by Artists in California." The Kahn Collection is at the Oakland Museum. The page also has a reproduction of Brown's work "Mount Tacoma" (Mount Rainier), Washington, 1885.
Date:: [circa 1975]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Portrait of Grafton Tyler Brown in his studio, standing in front of a landscape painting on an easel, holding a palette. There are 2 additional paintings on the floor and one on the wall.
Date:: 1883
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Mixed media drawing of a African man wearing a white robe and hat. Artist is Herman "Kofi" Bailey
Date:: [1960-1981]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: James Amos Porter was an artist, the head of the art gallery and art department at Howard University, and a pioneer in establishing the field of African-American art history. He was instrumental as the first scholar to provide a systematic, critical analysis of African-American artists and their works of art.
Date:: [circa 1940]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Modell
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Artists Charles Alston (L) and Hale Woodruff (R) at the landmark at Beckwourth Pass, the lowest mountain pass in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, with notebooks or sketchbooks. They were researching the mural for the new building of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Date:: August 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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