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	BEARDEN, ROMARE Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey D.C. Moore Gallery. 2007, First Edition. Boards. 116-page hardcover catalogue for an exhibition held November 13, 2007-January 5, 2008, with text by Robert G. O'Meally, and all those wonderful color plates of Bearden's version of The Odyssey. Matchless. Fine in illustrated boards as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2580] Book number: 3408 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	BLACKMON, PROPHEL WILLIAM J. Signs of Inspiration: The Art of Prophel William J. Blackmon Haggerty Museum of Art-Marquette University. 1999, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. Catalogue for an exhibition held at the Haggerty September 10-October 24, 1999 and traveling thereafter. 84 pages, with essays by Jeffrey R. Hayes (who curated), M. Shawn Copeland, David K. Smith, and Chester J. Fontenot, Jr. and 50 works shown in color. This is outsider art at, perhaps, its most religiously-based and most socially concerned. The Haggerty was careful to do justice to the work and the color in the work in the design and printing of this catalogue. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3010] Book number: 1812 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SPELMAN COLLEGE Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works By African American Women Artists Rizzoli. 1996, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 176 pages, in stiff wraps as issued; large format. Highly comprehensive look at the work, in all media, with Foreword by Maya Angelou and interesting text, including a history of Spelman College. Fine condition. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 6053 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	DRISKELL, DAVID C. Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art 1800-1950 Bellevue Art Museum & Art Museum Association of America. 1987, First Edition, 2nd Printing. (ISBN: 0-930295-03-X) Soft Cover. Ill.: Various. 104 page catalogue from an exhibition held at the Bellevue. Some color plates, but mostly black and white. All wonderful. Well-written, informative text plus full bibliography and other reference material and a complete catalogue of the exhibition. Mostly painting, but some sculpture shown. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped; white background to covers lightly soiled. Very Good to Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3440] Book number: 000003 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	LAWRENCE, JACOB AND ELLEN HARKINS WHEAT Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of 1938-40 Hampton University Museum. 1991, First Edition. Stiff Card Wraps. 128-page catalogue for a traveling exhibition of the Douglass-Tubman series in near-mint condition, with a tiny bit of sticker residue to the half-title page that can probably be removed without damage. All 60+ plates in color, period. INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED 10/16/92 by Jacob Lawrence. A treasure. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. Signed by Artist. USD 225.00 [Appr.: EURO 149.25 \| £UK 135.75 \| JP¥ 19349] Book number: 2783 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	KRASKIN, SANDRA [CURATOR] Wrestling With History: A Celebration of African American Self-Taught Artists Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College. 1996, First Edition. Stiff Wraps as Issued. 72-page exhibition catalogue with informative essay by Kraskin, complete exhibition catalogue, and extensive bibliography on individual artists as well as the general category. All color plates, featuring the work of Arthur Dial, Thornton Dial, Jr. and Sr. Bessie Harvey, and Mose Tolliver, among many others. Fine in stiff wraps. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 3773 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SCHUMARD, ANN M. A Durable Memento: Portraits By Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist Smithsonian Institution Press. 1999, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 24-page catalogue from an exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, September 24, 1999-January 2, 2000, and thereafter at the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford, and at the International Center of Photography in New York. Not all of Washington's sitters were African Americans (see John Brown on the catalogue's cover), but many were, and these portraits are all the rare for that. Very interesting history text as well. Fine in wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1548] Book number: 3613 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	VARIOUS African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VII [Educating Our Children] Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. 2000, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 70-page catalogue for an exhibition held at the Rosenberg Gallery (January 13=March 4, 2000) and the Appleton Museum of Art, Florida State University and Central Florida Community College, March 18-April 30 that year. Another in this well-produced series of catalogues, this one including works of Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, William Artis, Richmond Barthe, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Selma Burke, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Harold Cousins, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Palmer Hayden, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Edward Lopez, Marion Perkins, Horace Pippin, Betye Saar, Albert Alexander Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Bill Traylor, James VanDerZee, Laura Wheeler Waring, Charles White, Ellis Wilson, and Hale Woodruff. All plates in gorgeous color, with each artists represented by 1 or 2 plates (except Saar, who has 3). Brief biographies and photographs of the artists, full checklist of the exhibition, and lists of Rosenfeld publications and exhibition history. Fine in stiff folded wraps with die-cut cover. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3010] Book number: 1726 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	VARIOUS African American Artists (Bannister to Mitchell) [1999] Bill Hodges Gallery. 1999, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 52-page catalogue for an exhibition held February 6-April 3, 1999. 58 works shown in color by a range of the better known artists, from Benny Andrews through Charles White, including a significant showing of Bearden's work. Please e-mail to inquire about specific artists or works. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 1728 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	VARIOUS Some American History Institute for the Arts, Rice University. 1971, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 54-page catalogue for an exhibition held at Rice in February 1971, commissioned by the Menil Foundation. Participating artists were headlined by Larry Rivers, and included Ellsworth Ausby, Peter Bradley, Frank Bowling, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Joe Overstreet, and William Williams; a film, "Slavery: the black man and the man" conceived by June Jordan and directed by John Chandler, was also produced for the exhibition. 16 color plates, others in black and white, slave time reproductions, and interspersed quotations make for interesting looking and reading. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 2978 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	VARIOUS Some American History Institute for the Arts, Rice University. 1971, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 54-page catalogue for an exhibition held at Rice in February 1971, commissioned by the Menil Foundation. Participating artists were headlined by Larry Rivers, and included Ellsworth Ausby, Peter Bradley, Frank Bowling, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Joe Overstreet, and William Williams; a film, "Slavery: the black man and the man" conceived by June Jordan and directed by John Chandler, was also produced for the exhibition. 16 color plates, others in black and white, slave time reproductions, and interspersed quotations make for interesting looking and reading. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 29781 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.

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	BEARDEN, ROMARE Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey D.C. Moore Gallery. 2007, First Edition. Boards. 116-page hardcover catalogue for an exhibition held November 13, 2007-January 5, 2008, with text by Robert G. O'Meally, and all those wonderful color plates of Bearden's version of The Odyssey. Matchless. Fine in illustrated boards as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2580] Book number: 3408 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	BLACKMON, PROPHEL WILLIAM J. Signs of Inspiration: The Art of Prophel William J. Blackmon Haggerty Museum of Art-Marquette University. 1999, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. Catalogue for an exhibition held at the Haggerty September 10-October 24, 1999 and traveling thereafter. 84 pages, with essays by Jeffrey R. Hayes (who curated), M. Shawn Copeland, David K. Smith, and Chester J. Fontenot, Jr. and 50 works shown in color. This is outsider art at, perhaps, its most religiously-based and most socially concerned. The Haggerty was careful to do justice to the work and the color in the work in the design and printing of this catalogue. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3010] Book number: 1812 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SPELMAN COLLEGE Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works By African American Women Artists Rizzoli. 1996, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 176 pages, in stiff wraps as issued; large format. Highly comprehensive look at the work, in all media, with Foreword by Maya Angelou and interesting text, including a history of Spelman College. Fine condition. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 6053 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	DRISKELL, DAVID C. Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art 1800-1950 Bellevue Art Museum & Art Museum Association of America. 1987, First Edition, 2nd Printing. (ISBN: 0-930295-03-X) Soft Cover. Ill.: Various. 104 page catalogue from an exhibition held at the Bellevue. Some color plates, but mostly black and white. All wonderful. Well-written, informative text plus full bibliography and other reference material and a complete catalogue of the exhibition. Mostly painting, but some sculpture shown. Spine ends and corners lightly bumped; white background to covers lightly soiled. Very Good to Near-Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 26.75 \| £UK 24.25 \| JP¥ 3440] Book number: 000003 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	LAWRENCE, JACOB AND ELLEN HARKINS WHEAT Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of 1938-40 Hampton University Museum. 1991, First Edition. Stiff Card Wraps. 128-page catalogue for a traveling exhibition of the Douglass-Tubman series in near-mint condition, with a tiny bit of sticker residue to the half-title page that can probably be removed without damage. All 60+ plates in color, period. INSCRIBED, SIGNED, AND DATED 10/16/92 by Jacob Lawrence. A treasure. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. Signed by Artist. USD 225.00 [Appr.: EURO 149.25 \| £UK 135.75 \| JP¥ 19349] Book number: 2783 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	KRASKIN, SANDRA [CURATOR] Wrestling With History: A Celebration of African American Self-Taught Artists Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College. 1996, First Edition. Stiff Wraps as Issued. 72-page exhibition catalogue with informative essay by Kraskin, complete exhibition catalogue, and extensive bibliography on individual artists as well as the general category. All color plates, featuring the work of Arthur Dial, Thornton Dial, Jr. and Sr. Bessie Harvey, and Mose Tolliver, among many others. Fine in stiff wraps. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 3773 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	SCHUMARD, ANN M. A Durable Memento: Portraits By Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist Smithsonian Institution Press. 1999, First Edition. Wraps As Issued. 24-page catalogue from an exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, September 24, 1999-January 2, 2000, and thereafter at the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford, and at the International Center of Photography in New York. Not all of Washington's sitters were African Americans (see John Brown on the catalogue's cover), but many were, and these portraits are all the rare for that. Very interesting history text as well. Fine in wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1548] Book number: 3613 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	VARIOUS African-American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, VII [Educating Our Children] Michael Rosenfeld Gallery. 2000, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 70-page catalogue for an exhibition held at the Rosenberg Gallery (January 13=March 4, 2000) and the Appleton Museum of Art, Florida State University and Central Florida Community College, March 18-April 30 that year. Another in this well-produced series of catalogues, this one including works of Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, William Artis, Richmond Barthe, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Selma Burke, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Harold Cousins, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Palmer Hayden, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Edward Lopez, Marion Perkins, Horace Pippin, Betye Saar, Albert Alexander Smith, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Bill Traylor, James VanDerZee, Laura Wheeler Waring, Charles White, Ellis Wilson, and Hale Woodruff. All plates in gorgeous color, with each artists represented by 1 or 2 plates (except Saar, who has 3). Brief biographies and photographs of the artists, full checklist of the exhibition, and lists of Rosenfeld publications and exhibition history. Fine in stiff folded wraps with die-cut cover. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3010] Book number: 1726 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	VARIOUS African American Artists (Bannister to Mitchell) [1999] Bill Hodges Gallery. 1999, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 52-page catalogue for an exhibition held February 6-April 3, 1999. 58 works shown in color by a range of the better known artists, from Benny Andrews through Charles White, including a significant showing of Bearden's work. Please e-mail to inquire about specific artists or works. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1720] Book number: 1728 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	VARIOUS Some American History Institute for the Arts, Rice University. 1971, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 54-page catalogue for an exhibition held at Rice in February 1971, commissioned by the Menil Foundation. Participating artists were headlined by Larry Rivers, and included Ellsworth Ausby, Peter Bradley, Frank Bowling, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Joe Overstreet, and William Williams; a film, "Slavery: the black man and the man" conceived by June Jordan and directed by John Chandler, was also produced for the exhibition. 16 color plates, others in black and white, slave time reproductions, and interspersed quotations make for interesting looking and reading. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 2978 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.
	VARIOUS Some American History Institute for the Arts, Rice University. 1971, First Edition. Stiff Wraps As Issued. 54-page catalogue for an exhibition held at Rice in February 1971, commissioned by the Menil Foundation. Participating artists were headlined by Larry Rivers, and included Ellsworth Ausby, Peter Bradley, Frank Bowling, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Joe Overstreet, and William Williams; a film, "Slavery: the black man and the man" conceived by June Jordan and directed by John Chandler, was also produced for the exhibition. 16 color plates, others in black and white, slave time reproductions, and interspersed quotations make for interesting looking and reading. Fine in stiff wraps as issued. Fine/Issued Without Jacket. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1290] Book number: 29781 Click here to order or inquire at Ruggles Books.