Lois Mailou Jones scrapbooks

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Lois Mailou Jones scrapbooks

1922-1992

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This microfilm collection contains Lois Mailou Jones' scrapbooks documenting her career as an African American artist and educator. Scrapbooks contain correspondence (1928-1992) primarily regarding Jones' exhibitions, Howard University, and her art education in Paris, and include a letter and photograph from Emile Bernard; photographs of Jones in her Washington, D.C. and Paris studios, her work, and her extensive travels through Africa and Haiti; and printed material including exhibition announcements, catalogs, and clippings (1922-1992) of reviews, interviews, and articles on the European and African influences in her work. Also included are her resume, materials submitted for the Rosenwald Fellowship, and notes related to her coordination of the 1974 exhibition <emph render="italic">Paintings by Women Artists of the Caribbean and Afro-American Women Artists</emph>.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8273341

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Howard University

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...

Jones, Lois Mailou

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d. June 9, 1998. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122311085 African American woman artist, of Washington, D.C.; b. 1905. From the description of Lois Mailou Jones papers, 1943-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70949653 African American female visual artist, educator, scholar, and mentor; served as professor of art at the Howard Univ. College of Fine Arts from 1...

Bernard, Émile, 1868-1941

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Emile Bernard was a French artist and poet, and a correspondent of Vincent van Gogh. From the description of Emile Bernard papers, 1876-1906 (bulk 1891-1895). (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 41021148 French painter in the symbolism movement. From the description of Speculum Vitae manuscripts, 1916-1920 (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 678989456 French painter. From the description of Emile Bernard ...