TitleBreaking racial barriers : African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection / preface by David C. Driskell ; introduction by Tuliza K. Fleming.
Published[Washington, D.C.] : National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution ; San Francisco : Pomegranate Artbooks, c1997.
Description126 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 28 cm.
ISBN0-7649-0332-2
General Note"An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, January 31 to September 14, 1997"--T.p. verso.
A partial reconstruction of the Harmon Foundation's original exhibition Portraits of outstanding Americans of Negro origin, premiering at the Smithsonian Institution, May 2-28, 1944.
Bib. NoteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 124).
Formatted NoteContents: Mary Beattie Brady: remembering the legacy / by David C. Driskell -- Breaking racial barriers / by Tuliza K. Fleming -- Catalogue -- Original exhibition venues, 1944-1954.
SubjectsAfrican Americans -- Biography -- Exhibitions.
African Americans -- Portraits -- Exhibitions.
Brady, Mary Beattie -- Exhibitions.
Harmon Foundation, inc. -- Art patronage -- Exhibitions.
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) -- Exhibitions.
Reyneau, Betsy Graves -- Exhibitions.
Waring, Laura Wheeler, 1887-1948 -- Exhibitions.
Other AuthorsFleming, Tuliza K.
OrganizationsNational Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Call Number/Copies 
 WRHS Research Library: E 185.96 B828
mq12574: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING]
[Record 6855]