Harmon Foundation, First Edition (8 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 110pp. 10.9 x 8.8 inches landscape format. Tan textured buckram, gilt titles. Book about as new, with rubbed lower edges, and slightly to upper corners and top of spine, lightly foxed tops. Internally pristine. In pictorial jacket with slight shelfwear, and a few short taped tears. Contains 86 of Byron Harmon's b/w photographs, with captions, and the Biography and Appreciation. Dramatic mountain scenes plus genre pictures of some of the people who inhabit the mountains. Enormous historical interest. 650g. (USA, History, Mountain, Exploration, American Indian, Wild West, Photography, Rocky Mountains) Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 55 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran February 20 through March 4, 1933. Features text by Howard Giles. Includes a checklist, brief biographies and illustrations of works by : Leslie Garland Bolling, Sargent Johnson, William Arthur Cooper, Teodoro Ramos Blanco, James Lesene Wells, William Edouard Scott, Ellis Wilson, Archie Joseph Jones, Samuel Albert Countee, Richmond Barthe, and numerous others. An ex-library copy with marks to the covers and first two pages but otherwise free of marks and with some tape repairs and other wear. Despite the litany of flaws a solid reference copy of this important and early look at African American art.

First Edition. First Edition. Slim octavo. Catalogue published for the 1931 iteration of the Harmon Foundation's annual exhibition of Black artists (Feb. 16 - Feb. 28, 1931), which included the likes of James Richmond Barthé, Sargent Claude Johnson, Archibald Motley, Laura Wheeler Waring, Hale Woodruff, and James Lesense Wells, the winner of the 1930 Harmon Award. Featuring 31 monochrome reproductions of exhibited artworks, a series of texts from curators and institutional custodians (including "Some Historical Reflections" by A. A. Schomburg), and short artist biographies. Faint stain to front panel of illustrated wrappers, else near fine.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 47 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran February 16 - 28, 1931. Features text contributions by AA. Schomburg, Alain Locke, Ernestine Rose, James V. Herring, and Alon Bement. Includes a checklist, brief biographies and illustrations of works by: James Lesene Wells, Lillian A. Dorsey, Sargent Claude Johnson, Albert Alexander Smith, Archibald John Motley, Jr. , James Latimer Allen, Malvin Gray Johnson, William Arthur Cooper, Richmond Barthe, and numerous others. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. A very nice copy of an early catalog on the work of African American artists. Uncommon.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 59 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 22 through May 4, 1935. Features an introductory text by Helen Griffiths Harmon along with additional unattributed texts on various other exhibitions, and information about other events and artists. The primary focus is illustrations of Malvin Gray Johnson, Richmond Barthe, and Sargent Johnson. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers that are very lightly soiled and with some minor wear. A very nice copy of this early catalog of African American art. Uncommon.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Octavo. 10, [4]pp. Illustrated. Stapled illustrated self-wrappers. Staples a little rusted. else fine. Program for the groundbreaking exhibition. Exhibiting artist included Wiliam H. Johnson, Laura Wheeler Waring, Hale A. Woodruff, Allan Rohan Crite, James A. Porter, Palmer Hayden, Sargent Johnson, F.C. Alston, Augusta Savage, and others. Scarce, especially in this condition.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Octavo. 47pp. Illustrated. Stapled illustrated self-wrappers. A trifle rubbed along the spine, else fine. Includes essays by Alain Locke, A.A. Schomburg and others. Program for the groundbreaking exhibition. Exhibiting artist included Richmond Barthe, Allan Rohan Crite, Meta V. Warrick Fuller, Palmer Hayden, Sargent Johnson, Wiliam H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Archibald Motley, Richard Bruce Nugent, Augusta Savage, Laura Wheeler Waring, Hale A. Woodruff, and others. Scarce, especially in this condition.

First Edition. [African-American Art][Harlem Renaissance] Harmon Foundation Exhibition of the Work of Negro Artists, 1931, a pivotal institutional public recognition of Black visual art during the Harlem Renaissance. Issued for the February 16-28, 1931 exhibition at the Art Center in New York, the catalog represents the final year of the Harmon Foundation's annual exhibitions, a series that materially shaped national awareness of Black artists during the interwar period. The exhibition set forth to advance the cultural legitimacy of African American artists, largely excluded from mainstream museums and academies. Harmon Foundation. Exhibition of the Work of Negro Artists. New York: Harmon Foundation at the Art Center, 1931. First edition. Staple-bound illustrated wrappers. 47 pages. The front wrapper reproduces Sargent Claude Johnson's sculpture Chester, a carved wood depiction of a contemplative Black youth, emblematic of Johnson's synthesis of African sculptural forms and American modernist aesthetics. The catalog contains essays outlining the Foundation's mission to cultivate African American artistic achievement and its partnerships with historically Black institutions. Reproductions include Laura Wheeler Waring's Mother and Daughter, presented in soft monochrome, a dignified and intimate representation of Black domestic life. The inclusion of a Kasai dance mask from the Harlem Museum of African Art contextualizes the exhibition within broader diasporic reclamation movements central to the Harlem Renaissance. A printed statement by Ernestine Rose of the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library underscores the importance of preserving "the artistic records of Black life," reflecting the exhibition's alignment with Black intellectual and archival advocacy. Appearing in 1931, as the Great Depression reshaped philanthropic priorities and constrained arts funding, this final annual exhibition catalog marks both culmination and transition in institutional support for African American artists. The Harmon Foundation's exhibitions created networks of patronage, publicity, and acquisition for Black artists at a time of especially stringent systemic exclusion. The catalog preserves not only individual artworks but also the infrastructure of advocacy that sustained Harlem Renaissance cultural production. Stapled binding delicate and partially separating; moderate edge wear with chips and closed tears to spine and front wrapper; creasing to front panel; faint staining to upper corner; internally clean. Good. An important document of Depression-era philanthropy and the organized promotion of African American art at a defining moment in American exhibition history.