Guy C. McElroy papers 1969-1990

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Guy C. McElroy papers 1969-1990

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The Guy C. McElroy Papers provide information on his college education as he worked toward his goal of becoming an art historian, in addition to documenting the various positions he held in the museum and art history fields - particularly as guest curator for the exhibition "Facing History: The Black Image in American Art, 1710-1940." Aspects of his personal life are represented in the papers as well.

17 lin. ft.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section

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McElroy, Guy C.

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Guy Clinton McElroy, art historian and curator, specialist in African-American art. Born in 1948, and raised in Fairmont, West Virginia, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art Education from Fairmont State College in West Virginia (1970), and was awarded the Master of Arts degree in Art History, specializing in nineteenth century American and French art from the University of Cincinnati (1972). McElroy earned a second Master of Arts degree from Emerson College in Bos...

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