"Dr. Walter O. Evans first purchased a portfolio of prints by Jacob Lawrence in the late 1970s. Now, more than 20 years after acquiring his first piece of fine art, Dr. Evans owns a phenomenal collection that ranges from choice works by the expatriate artists Mary Edmonia Lewis and Henry Ossawa Tanner to noteworthy pieces by the celebrated innovators Charles White, Richard Hunt, and Archibald J. Motley, Jr. "The Evans Collection" also co ..."
Child of the Fire Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History's Black and Indian Subject by KirstenBuick 297 Pages, Published 2009 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-9199-9, ISBN: 0-8223-9199-6
"... ontological category.10 The tenuous fiction of race demanded and demands
clarity even as its “reality” (racism) continues to be produced at the level of culture
.11 There is no better example of that tenuous fiction than the belief that a white
woman can bear a black child but that a black woman cannot bear a white child.
12 Duncanson's biographer, Joseph D. Ketner, notes that the artist was “the first
African-American artist to ..."
Child of the Fire Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History's Black and Indian Subject by KirstenBuick Published 2009 ISBN-13: 978-1-283-06525-2, ISBN: 1-283-06525-8