Exhibit of fine arts by American Negro artists / presented by the Harmon Foundation and the Commission on Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches
An exhibition catalogue published in New York in 1930 by the Harmon Foundation with the Federal Council of Churches' Commission on Race Relations, presenting paintings by African American artists for a general American audience. The four plates are semi-realistic paintings reproduced in halftone: a pensive young woman with loose hair, a bearded man in a scarf against a pale studio wall, a group of figures seated and standing in a shaded park, and children with hats playing beside a wooden structure. A designer might take their muted brown tonal palette, loose painterly brushwork, and quiet genre scenes as a model for 1930s modernist figure painting.
