Harmon Foundation (13 results)
Published by Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1978., 1978
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- First Edition
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition. 110 pages. Hardcover; H 22.25cm x L 27cm. White dust jacket rubbed with light soiling, spine and flap fold ends nicked, several closed tears at edges; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Brown cloth with bright gilt spine lettering, slight scuffing at spine ends and tips of board corners. A very good+ c…opy in a very good- dust jacket. Features a total of eighty-six b/w photographs throughout including frontispiece; Preface by editor Carole Harmon; essay "A Biographical Portrait of Byron Harmon" on pages 7-20 by Bart Robinson; and essay "An Appreciation" on pages 103-109 by Jon Whyte. ISBN 019540288X.
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Seller: Edmonton Book Store, Edmonton, AB, CanadaEdmonton Book Store
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Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 8vo pp. 86. B/W images throughout, revised reprint. book.
More imagesPublished by Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1978
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Transformer, Glasgow, United KingdomTransformer
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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 shel…fwear, 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.
Great Days in the Rockies; The Photographs of Byron Harmon 1906-1934
Harmon, Byron (Contributor Bart Robinson; Jon Whyte; Edited by Peter and Catharine Whyte Foundation.)
Published by Altitude Publishing, Banff
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Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, CanadaBurton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
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[0-919381-16-2] 1984. (Oblong 4to hardcover) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 110pp. Photographs. The dust jacket spine is lightly faded. Contributors include Bart Robinson, Jon Whyte. Edited by Peter and Catharine Whyte Foundation. Locale: Canadian Rockies; Rocky Mountains; Western Canada. (Photography, Nature Photography).
Published by Harmon Foundation Incorporated, New York, 1933
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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst 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 Wel…ls, 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.
More imagesPublished by New York: Harmon Foundation, 1931
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Seller: Harper's Books, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.Harper's Books, ABAA
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Condition: Near Fine. 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.
Published by Harmon Foundation Incorporated, New York, 1931
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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst 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. Dors…ey, 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.
Negro Artists An Illustrated Review of Their Achievements
(Harmon Foundation) JOHNSON, Malvin Gray, Richmond Barthe, Sargent Johnson, et al.
Published by Harmon Foundation Incorporated in cooperation with the Delphic Studios, New York, 1935
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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst 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.
Published by Harmon Foundation, (New York), 1930
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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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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, Sarg…ent Johnson, F.C. Alston, Augusta Savage, and others. Scarce, especially in this condition.
Published by Harmon Foundation, (New York), 1931
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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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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.
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Seller: Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.Max Rambod Inc
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst 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 ye…ar 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.
More imagesPublished by Harmon Foundation, New York, 1935
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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
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Illustrated. 4 vols. 12mo. First editions. First editions. Illustrated. 4 vols. 12mo. Four programs for the important early exhibitions of African American art, including the 1928 first exhibition of works created exclusively by African-American artists. Artists from the first exhibition included Sargent Johnson, Aaron Douglas,…A. R. Freelon, Helen Smith, Laura Wheeler Waring, Hale W. Woodruff, Palmer Hayden and many more. The later exhibition catalogues includes essays by Alain Locke and others, and included works by Richmond Barthe, Allan Rohan Crite, Beauford DeLaney, Meta V. Warrick Fuller, Lois Mailou Jones, James A. Porter, Charles Alston, Richmond Barthe, E. Simms Campbell and more. Each from the collection of noted scholar of African American art Sidney Kaplan (1913-1993). The annotations mostly comprise check marks next to specific works. Original stapled wrappers, minor soiling. Provenance: Sidney Kaplan (signature on upper wrappers and some manuscript annotations in red ink).
More imagesSeller: Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA), Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.Ian Brabner, Rare Americana (ABAA)
Contact seller5-star seller[New York: Harmon Foundation, ca. 1940s]. Ten loose portraits, image size c. 10 × 8 in. on coated stock sheets 11½ × 9 in., with captioned margins, printed recto only. Light toning and faint handling; very good or better. These ten prints belong to the Harmon Foundation's celebrated "Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro O…rigin" project, a visual initiative begun in the early 1940s with oil portraits by Betsy Graves Reyneau and Laura Wheeler Waring. The project itself was conceived by Reyneau as a "visual education" effort. She was "shocked by the overt racism that existed in the 1930's. She decided that by using her skills as a portrait painter she could do something that would make a difference in the country's perception of African Americans. Reyneau's determination eventually resulted in a set of portraits commissioned by the Harmon Foundation." (National Archives) The Black artist Laura Wheeler Waring was commissioned to work with Reyneau. Years earlier, during visits to Europe, Waring met and befriended other artists, writers, and intellectuals of the African diaspora, such as Henry Ossawa Tanner and W. E. B. Du Bois. Some of her friends and acquaintances sat for their portraits with Waring. Her art was displayed at the Harmon Foundation exhibition of works by "Negro artists" in 1927. The Harmon Foundation commissioned the series to recognize African American achievement, beginning with 22 portraits and later expanding to 47. The paintings debuted at the Smithsonian in May 1944, and due to public demand toured nationally through museums, galleries, and civic venues for several years. Reyneau completed the majority of the works while Waring, who died in 1948, contributed several of her most accomplished likenesses, including (as seen with this set) W.E.B. Du Bois, Marian Anderson, George Washington Carver, and George Edmund Haynes. The Foundation issued the portraits in at least three formats. The present set of ten, accompanied by a portfolio envelope and broadside (both lacking here), represents the intermediate format. A smaller set of twenty-four 3 × 5 in. prints was issued in a printed envelope, while a larger series of twenty-four prints was produced in a larger format. All formats are rare. OCLC 774915628 records just one example of the ten-print set offered here. The 10 portraits are titled and captioned thus: Mary McLeod Bethune, "Founder of Bethune-Cookman College, Director, Division of Negro Affairs - National Youth Administration, President, National Council of Negro Women" (Reyneau); Jane M. Bolin, "Justice of Domestic Relations Court of the City of New York" (Reyneau); W. E. B. Du Bois, "Editor - Writer - Teacher, Interpreter of Race Relations" (Waring); George Edmund Haynes, "Secretary of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America" (Waring); William Campbell, "Captain - 99th Pursuit Squadron [Tuskegee Airman]" (Reyneau); Channing H. Tobias, "Religious and Social Leader" (Reyneau); Marion Anderson, "Contralto" (Waring); George Washington Carver, "Scientist" (Reyneau); Charles Richard Drew, "Surgeon, Pioneer in Blood Plasma" (Reyneau); Asa Philip Randolph, "Labor Leader, International President Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters" (Reyneau). Cederholm pp. 293294 Falk, III:3465.
