AFRICAN AMERICAN ARTIST DETROIT CHARLES MCGEE CATALOG ORIGINAL SIGNED

Description: Charles McGee, Seeing Seventy [Exhibition Catalogue] SIGNED BY CHARLES MCGEEby Ruskin, Judith (Ed. ) 1994, Detroit Institute of Arts: Detroit, MI Paperback Publisher Detroit Institute of Arts: Detroit, MIPublished 1994 Illus., 11 x 8.5", pict stapled wraps, 32pp, covers a little rubbed, GOOD else a nice, clean copy of this exhibition catalogue for this African-American artist; at the Dennos Museum Center in Traverse City, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. Includes essays by Jacqueline Shinners and MaryAnn Wilkinson. SCARCE. McGee, Charles W. (b. Clemson, SC, 1924; active Detroit, MI, 2014) Bibliography and ExhibitionsMONOGRAPHS AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS: Abbey-Lambertz, Kate.CHARLES MCGEE, Influential 87-year-old Artist, Still Creates Work For Detroit Public.2012.In: Huffington Post, February 27, 2012. Includes useful map and images of McGee's public art work in Detroit. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/27/charles-mcgee-public-art-detroit_n_1303575.html Detroit (MI). Detroit Focus Gallery.Sustained Visions: CHARLES MCGEE.April 21-May 20, 1989.Exhib. cat., color and b&w illus. Oblong 8vo, pictorial wraps. Detroit (MI). Detroit Institute of Arts.CHARLES MCGEE: Seeing Seventy.1994-1995.Solo exhibition. Included: 103 pieces covering 5 rooms, showcasing McGee's "Noah's Ark" series from the 80s and 90s. Flint (MI). Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Saginaw Vallery State University.2 Centuries, 3 Decades, 28 works by CHARLES MCGEE.June 4-September 24, 2011.Solo exhibition. Curated by Marilyn Wheaton. Sousanis, Nick.CHARLES MCGEE: Metamorphosis and Kinetic Energy.November, 2004.In: thedetroiter.com. Includes color photos of artist and his work. [http://www.thedetroiter.com/nov04/mcgee.html] Ypsilanti (MI). Eastern Michigan University Gallery.Energy: CHARLES MCGEE at Eighty-Five.November 9-December 19, 2009.90 pp. exhib. cat., illus. Text by Julia R. Myers. A sixty-year retrospective. 4to (11 x 8.5 in.), wraps. GENERAL BOOKS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS: ADRIAN (MI). Klemm Gallery, Siena Heights University.Reverberations: Contemporary Art by African American Artists in Southeast Michigan.November 9-December 10, 2004.An exhibition of 7 artists who live in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and Detroit: Curated by curated by Marion E. Jackson. Artists include: Tyree Guyton, Al Hinton, Lester L. Johnson, Robert Martin, Charles McGee, Marianetta Porter and Gilda Snowden. BATTLE CREEK (MI). Battle Creek Art Center.American Black Art: Black Belt to Hill Country: the Known and the New.January 9-February 13, 1977.Unpag. (20 pp) exhib. cat., 15 b&w illus., checklist of 63 items. Text by J. Kline Hobbs. Includes: Benny Andrews, Steve Ashby, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Bruce Brice, Bernie Casey, Nathaniel Choate, Paul Collins, John E. Dowell, Robert S. Duncanson, Reginald Gammon, Sam Gilliam, Russell T. Gordon, Ray Hamilton, David Hammons, Rufus Hinton, Jenelsie Holloway, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Lester L. Johnson, Sargent Johnson, W. H. Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Al Loving, Charles McGee, Allie McGhee, Richard Mayhew, Robert Merriweather, Keith Morrison, Archibald Motley, Jr., Robert Murray, Inez Nathaniel, Leslie Payne, Elijah Pierce, Robert Reid (as Reed), Mahler Ryder, Betye Saar, William Edouard Scott, Charles Sebree, Henry O. Tanner, Wilson E. Thompson, Charles White, Walter J. Williams, Hale Woodruff, Joseph Yoakum. Small oblong 8vo, stapled black paper covers lettered in white. First ed. BIRMINGHAM (MI). Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center.Paths.2002.Two-person exhibition: McArthur Binion and Charles McGee. BROOKLYN (NY). Brooklyn Museum of Art.New Black Artists.New York: The Harlem Cultural Council; printed by Clarke & Way, New York 1969.Unpag. (54 pp.) exhib. cat., 33 b&w illus. and photos. Foreword by Edward K. Taylor. A selection of 28 paintings and 12 sculptures by 12 New York artists (8 painters and 4 sculptors); brief bios. and statements by each. Curated by Edward Taylor. Artists included: Ellsworth Ausby, Clifford Eubanks, Hugh Harrell, Bill Howell, Tonnie Jones, Charles McGee, Ted Moody, Joe Overstreet, Anderson Pigatt, Daniel Pressley, Charles R. Searles, Erik W.A. Stephenson. Important early catalogue of African American work. Organized by the Harlem Cultural Council, in cooperation with the School of the Arts, and the Urban Center of Columbia University. [Exhibited: Brooklyn Museum, October 7-November 9, 1969; Columbia University, November 20-December 12, 1969; Museum of the Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, June 28-July 19, 1970; University of Florida, Gainesville, September, 1970.] [Review: John Canaday, "Sculpture is the Strength of 'New Black Artists' Show," NYT, October 8, 1969.] Sq. 4to (26 cm.), stapled wraps. CHICAGO (IL). Illinois Arts Council and Illinois Bell Telephone Lobby Gallery.Black American Artists / 71.1971-1972.12 pp. catalogue of an important traveling exhibition circulated by the Illinois Arts Council and Illinois Bell; checklist of 136 works by 59 artists, 28 b&w illus., address list for many of the artists. Intro. and curated by Robert H. Glauber; statements by some of the artists on the topic of being a Black artist in 1971. Ralph Arnold, Sam Gilliam, Russell T. Gordon, Joseph B. Ross Jr., and by Edward K. Taylor (President of the Harlem Cultural Council.). Artists included in the exhibition: Benny Andrews, Ralph Arnold, Romare Bearden, Cleveland Bellow, Betty Blayton, Lynn Bowers, Vivian Browne, Robert Carter, Bernie Casey, LeRoy Clarke, Floyd Coleman, Dan Concholar, Dale Davis, Avel DeKnight, Richard Dempsey, David Driskell, Michael Esteves, Babatunde Folayemi, Sam Gilliam, Russell T. Gordon, David Hammons, Ben Hazard, Bill Howell, Raymond Howell, Manuel Hughes, Richard Hunt, Tonnie Jones, James DeWitt King, Jr., Jacob Lawrence, Leon Lank Leonard, Sr., Richard Mayhew, Geraldine McCullough, Charles McGee, Allie McGhee, Algernon Miller, Arthur Monroe, Keith Morrison, Ademola Olugebefola, Joe Overstreet, William Pajaud, Stephanie Pogue, Leslie Price, Noah Purifoy, Robert Reid, John T. Riddle, Gregory Ridley, Faith Ringgold, Joseph B. Ross, Jr., Raymond Saunders, John T. Scott, Vincent Smith, Alma Thomas, Timothy Washington, Charles White, Stanley Whitney, Walter J. Williams, Rip Woods, Kenneth Young, Milton Young. [Traveled to: Chicago, Illinois State Museum, Springfield (IL), Sloan Galleries, Valparaiso (IL), Peoria Art Guild, Peoria (IL), Burpee Gallery, Rockford (IL), Quincy (IL), Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo [MI], University of Iowa Art Museum, Iowa City (IA), November 2, 1971-January 2, 1972, and perhaps other venues.] [Review: (Unattrib.) "Unknown black artists get chance to show their work," Jet (February 4, 1971):48-49, 4 b&w photos of artists and work.] 4to, stapled wraps. Individuated covers printed for at least two locations. DETROIT (MI). About Work: Detroit.Why.November 17, 2007-January 26, 2008.Group exhibition. Curated by Nick Sousanis. Included: Charles McGee, Kathy Rashid, Gilda Snowden, Ed West, and Elizabeth Youngblood. DETROIT (MI). Arts Extended Gallery.Group exhibition.Thru October 31, 1969.Included: Walter Davis, Lester Johnson, Philip Martin, Charles McGee, Cyril Miles, Shirley Woodson, Diane Young. DETROIT (MI). Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit.2007 Actual Size Biennial.October 20-December 1, 2007.Group exhibition. Curated by Aaron Timlin. Included: Anita Bates, Charles McGee, Gilda Snowden, et al. DETROIT (MI). Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit.Metamorphosis.November 13-December 18, 2004.Group exhibition. Included: Charles McGee. DETROIT (MI). Detroit Artists Market.3X3: Artists From the Market's History.2007.Group exhibition of 9 artists. Included: Lester L. Johnson, Jr. and Charles McGee. DETROIT (MI). Detroit Artists Market.Michigan 150.October 16-November 20, 1987.Group exhibition. Included: Charles McGee, Gilda Snowden, Shirley Woodson. Checklist, postcard. DETROIT (MI). Detroit Artists Market.Seven Black Artists.1969.Exhib. cat., illus. Group exhibition. Curated by Charles McGee. Included: Lester Johnson, Henri Umbaji King, Charles McGee, Robert Holland Murray, James Lee, Allie McGhee, Harold Neal, and Robert J. Stull. DETROIT (MI). Detroit Focus Gallery.Gil Silverman Selects.May 27-June 25, 1983.Group exhibition. Included: Lester Johnson and Charles McGee. DETROIT (MI). Detroit Institute of Arts.A Cultural Heritage: Selected Works of African American Art from the DIA's Collection.February 1-April 30, 2001.Exhibition of more than 20 paintings and prints by nationally and internationally known artists: Romare Bearden, Hale Woodruff, Benny Andrews, Jacob Lawrence (selections from the John Brown series), Charles McGee, Hughie Lee-Smith, Allie McGhee and Lester L. Johnson Jr. DETROIT (MI). Detroit Institute of Arts.Then and Now, A Selection of 19th and 20th Century Art by African-American Artists.March-Summer, 2003.Group exhibition drawn from the DIA collection. Curated by Valerie J. Mercer. The inaugural exhibition of the General Motors Center for African-American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Included: pantheon artists such as Joshua Johnson, Robert S. Duncanson, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Augusta Savage, but mostly focused on work of the past 4 decades: Benny Andrews, Naomi Dickerson, Sam Gilliam, Richard Hunt, Hughie Lee-Smith, Charles McGee, Allie McGhee, Betye Saar, Lorna Simpson, Shirley Woodson, et al. DETROIT (MI). Scarab Club.Voices.September, 2008.Group exhibition. Curated by Joy Hakanson Colby. Included: Charles McGee (sculpture). FLINT (MI). Buckham Gallery.Signatures: Larry Cressman, Charles McGee and Harry Zmijewski.2008.Three-person exhibition. Curated by Charles McGee. HILDEBRANDT, LORRAINE and RICHARD S. AIKEN, eds.A Bibliography of Afro-American Print and Non-Print Resources in Libraries of Pierce County, Washington.Tacoma Community College Library, 1969.Artists include: Charles Alston, William Artis, Henry Avery, Henry Bannarn, Edward Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Carter Bazile, Romare Bearden, Rigaud Bénoit, Charles Bible, John Biggers, Wilson Bigaud, Eloise Bishop, Robert Blackburn, Ramos Blanco (Uruguayan), James Bland, Leslie Bolling, Seymour Bottex, Elmer Brown, Fred Brown, Samuel Brown, Selma Burke, Calvin Burnett, E. Simms Campbell, William Carter, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase, Ernest Crichlow, Claude Clark, William Arthur Cooper, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Crite, Harvey Cropper, Charles Dawson, Joseph Delaney, Richard Dempsey, Lillian A. Dorsey, Aaron Douglas, Glanton Dowdell, Robert S. Duncanson, William Edmondson, William Farrow, Elton Fax, Fred Flemister, Allan Freelon, Meta Fuller, Rex Goreleigh [as Gorleigh], Bernard Goss, Eugene Grigsby, John Hardrick, Edwin Harleston, William Harper, Isaac Hathaway, Palmer Hayden, William Hayden, Vertis Hayes, Geoffrey Holder, Al Hollingsworth, Humbert Howard, Richard Hunt, May Jackson, Daniel Larue Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent C. Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Henry B. Jones, Lois Jones, Ronald Joseph, Paul Keene, Joseph Kersey, Oliver LaGrone, Jacob Lawrence, Clarence Lawson, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Edward Loper, John C. Lutz, Geraldine McCullough, Charles McGee, Lloyd McNeil, William Majors, Sam Middleton, Ronald C. Moody, Scipio Moorhead, Norma Morgan, Archibald Motley, Robert L. Neal, Hayward L. Oubré, Joe Overstreet, Pastor Argudin y Pedroso [as Argudin (Pastor) Pedrosa], Marion Perkins, Harper Phillips, Delilah Pierce, Horace Pippin, Robert Pious, James Porter, Elizabeth Prophet, Florence Purviance, John Robinson, Leo Robinson, Augusta Savage, William Edouard Scott, Georgette Seabrooke, Charles Sebree, Merton Simpson, William H. Simpson, Albert Alexander Smith, Marvin Smith, Thelma Johnson Streat, Henry O. Tanner, Bob Thompson, Dox Thrash [as Thrasher], Laura Waring, James Washington, James Wells [see also Lesesne Wells], Charles White, Jack Whitten, Walter Williams, Ellis Wilson, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff. HOLMES, OAKLEY N., JR.The Complete Annotated Resource Guide to Black American art: Books, doctoral dissertations, exhibition catalogs, periodicals, films, slides, large prints, speakers, filmstrips, video tapes, Black museums, art galleries, and much more.Spring Valley, NY: Black Artists in America, 1978.iii, 275 pp. A bibliographical reference superceded by Igoe who incorporated all of this information. AAVAD has not yet consulted or copied this information into the database, except where the reference appeared through other sources. Note: numerous misspellings of artists' names. 8vo (23 cm.), glossy printed wraps; text mimeographed. First ed. HOUSTON (TX). Contemporary Arts Museum.Other Narratives: Fifteen Years.May 15-July 4, 1999.96 pp. exhib. cat., 12 color plates, 69 b&w illus., biogs., bibliogs. Curated by Dana Friis-Hansen. Texts by Robert Atkins, Dana Friis-Hansen, and Greg Tate. African American artists included: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sam Durant, Annette Lawrence, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, David McGee, Lorna Simpson, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, and Pat Ward Williams. 4to, wraps. First ed. Ivoryton (CT). ART Gallery Magazine.The ART Gallery Magazine: Afro-American issue (Vol. 11, no. 7, April 1968).1968.Special Afro-American issue. Approx. 100 pp., b&w and color illus. Includes: Alonzo J. Aden, Charles Alston, Emma Amos, Eric Anderson, Benny Andrews, William E. Artis, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Sheman Beck, Ed Bereal, John T. Biggers, Betty Blayton, Sylvester Britton, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, William S. Carter, Bernie Casey, Elizabeth Catlett, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Edward Christmas, Claude Clark, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Rohan Crite, Emilio Cruz, Mary Reed Daniel, Charles C. Dawson, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Avel DeKnight, Richard Dempsey, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, David C. Driskell, Robert S. Duncanson, Eugene Eda, William Edmondson, Melvin Edwards, John Farrar, Frederick C. Flemister, Meta Warrick Fuller, Reginald Gammon, Sam Gilliam, Robert Glover, Russell T. Gordon, Bernard Goss, Phillip Hampton, Marvin Harden, Romaine Harris, Eugene Hawkins, Palmer Hayden, Wilbur Haynie, Reginald Helm, James Herring, Leon Hicks, Vivian Hieber (?), Felrath Hines, Alvin Hollingsworth, Humbert Howard, Richard Hunt, A.B. Jackson, Hiram E. Jackson, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Frederic Jones (presumably Frederick D. Jones, Jr.), Lois Mailou Jones, Robert Edmond Jones, Jack Jordan, Sr., Louis Joseph Jordan, Ronald Joseph (as Joseph Ronald), Paul Keene, Joseph Kersey, Herman King, Sidney Kumalo, Jacob Lawrence, Clarence Lawson, Clifford Lee, Hughie Lee-Smith, James Edward Lewis, Jr., Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Tom Lloyd, Alvin Loving, William Majors, Howard Mallory, Jr., David Mann, Richard Mayhew, Anna McCullough, Geraldine McCullough, Charles W. McGee, Lloyd McNeill, Jr., Earl Miller, Norma Morgan, Jimmie Mosely, Archibald J. Motley, Jr., Texeira Nash, Frank W. Neal, George E. Neal, Hayward L. Oubre, Jr., James D. Parks, Marion Perkins, Robert S. Pious, Horace Pippin, James A. Porter, Judson Powell, Ramon Price, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Noah Purifoy, Mavis Pusey, Robert D. Reid, John W. Rhoden, Haywood "Bill" Rivers, Henry C. Rollins, Mahler Ryder, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Jewel Simon, Merton D. Simpson, Van Slater, Carroll Sockwell, John Stevens, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Ralph M. Tate, Lawrence Taylor, John Torres, Jr., Alfred J. Tyler, Ruth G. Waddy, William Walker, Eugene Warburg, Howard N. Watson, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White, Jack H. White, Jack Whitten, Garrett Whyte, Sam William, Douglas R. Williams, Jose Williams, Todd Williams, Walter H. Williams, Stan Williamson, Ed Wilson, Ellis Wilson, John W. Wilson, Roger Wilson, Hale A. Woodruff, James E. Woods, Roosevelt (Rip) Woods, Charles Yates, Hartwell Yeargans, et al. 8vo (24 cm.; 9 x 6 in.), wraps. LOS ANGELES (CA). Dickson Art Galleries, UCLA Art Galleries.The Negro In American Art: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Afro-American Art.September 11-October 16, 1966.63 pp. exhib. cat., 47 b&w illus., color cover plate, checklist of over 100 works by 48 artists, biogs., awards, exhibs., colls. for each artist. Curated with foreword by Frederick Wight; text by James A. Porter. [Porter's text originally appeared in Presence Africaine, and was re-edited for this publication.] In addition to the usual famous dozen, there are artists included here who are not in many of the other group shows due to the California emphasis. Includes: Charles Alston, Edward M. Bannister, Romare Bearden, Edmund Bereal, Calvin Burnett, Emilio Cruz, Aaron Douglas, David Driskell, Robert Duncanson, Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, Marvin Harden, Eugene Hawkins, Wilbur Haynie, Alvin C. Hollingsworth, Richard Hunt, Daniel L. Johnson, Sargent Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, William Majors, David Mann, Charles McGee, Lloyd G. McNeill, Norma Morgan, Horace Pippin, Judson Powell, Noah Purifoy, Mavis Pusey, Robert Reid, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, Jewel W. Simon, Van Slater, John Stevens, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Robert Thompson, Ruth G. Waddy, Charles White, Todd Williams, Ed Wilson, Roosevelt Woods, Charles E. Yates. [Traveled to: University of California, Davis, November 1-December 15, 1966; Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA, January 5-February 12, 1967; Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA, February 24-March 19, 1967.] 4to (28 cm.), stapled wraps. First ed. NAWROCKI, DENNIS ALAN and DAVID CLEMENTS (photos).Art in Detroit Public Places.Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1999.183 pp., illus., list of 120 sites and artists, bibliog., index. Includes: Sam Gilliam, Tyree Guyton, Richard Hunt, Lester L. Johnson, Charles Keck, Alvin D. Loving, Hubert Massey, Allie McGhee, Charles McGee. Revised ed. NEW YORK (NY). Lee Nordness Galleries.Twelve Afro-American Artists [a.k.a. 1969: 12 Afro-American Artists].January 22-February 12, 1969.36 pp. exhib. cat, biogs., color and b&w illus., 32 items listed. Preface, Roy Wilkins; text by Carroll Greene, Jr. Included: Art Coppedge, Felrath Hines, Norman Lewis, Noah Purifoy, Charles McGee, Carroll Sockwell, Alma Thomas, Russ Thompson, Walter Williams, Jack White, Art Smith, James Tanner. Preface mentions: "An abridged edition of the show was assembled by the Smithsonian Institution and the Nordness Galleries for an exhibition in Washington, D.C." [Reviews: The Crisis 76 (Mar. 1969):132-133; Feldman, Anita, "Twelve Afro-American Artists," Arts Magazine, March 1969.] 8vo (23 x 16 cm.), wraps. First ed. NEW YORK (NY). Marianne Boesky and Marlborough Chelsea Galleries.Another Look at Detroit.June 26-August 8, 2014.Group exhibition. Curated by Todd Levin. Included: Hughie Lee-Smith, McArthur Binion, Nick Cave, Robert Duncanson, Al Loving, Allie McGhee, Charles McGee, Julie Mehretu. NEW YORK (NY). Whitney Museum of American Art.Contemporary Black Artists in America.April 6-May 16, 1971.64 pp. exhib. catalogue of 84 works by 58 artists. 48 illus., 6 in color, excellent bibliog. by Libby W. Seaberg. Text by Robert Doty. Includes: Ralph Arnold, Edward A. Ausby, Roland Ayers, Frank Bowling, James Brantley, Marvin Brown, Walter Cade III, Catti, John E. Chandler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Walter Davis, Avel DeKinight, Murry N. DePillars, David Driskell, Frederick J. Eversley, Ernest Frazier, Russell T. Gordon, William H. Henderson, Barkley Hendricks, Alvin Hollingsworth, Manuel Hughes, Nathaniel Hunter, Jr., Lester L. Johnson, Jr., B. Nathaniel Knight, Jacob Lawrence, James Lee, Hughie Lee-Smith, Tom Lloyd, Alvin Loving, Phillip L. Mason, Charles W. McGee, Lloyd G. McNeill, Algernon Miller, Norma Morgan, Howardena Pindell, Stephanie Pogue, Noah Purifoy, Mavis Pusey, Robert Reid, John Rhoden, Henry Rollins, Joseph B. Ross, Jr., Mahler B. Ryder, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, Charles Searles, Frank Sharpe, Thomas Sills, Vincent Smith, Evelyn P. Terry, Alma Thomas, John Torres, Charles White, Franklin A. White, Jr., Reginald Wickham, Todd Williams, Hartwell Yeargans, Elyn Zimmerman. Highly controversial exhibition from which 16 artists withdrew, including Romare Bearden, John Dowell, Melvin Edwards, Sam Gilliam, Richard Hunt, Daniel Johnson, Joe Overstreet, and William T. Williams. [Reviews included: John Canaday, "Black Artists on View in Two Exhibitions," NYT, April 7, 1971:52; Lawrence Alloway, "Art," The Nation 212, May 10, 1971:604-5; Grace Glueck, "Black Show Under Fire at the Whitney," NYT, January 31, 1971, D25; and Glueck's follow-up article: "15 of 75 Artists Leave as Whitney Exhibition Opens," NYT, April 6, 1971:50.] Small sq. 4to (25 cm.), cloth, d.j. First ed. PHILADELPHIA (PA). School District and Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center.Afro-American Artists, 1800-1969.December 5-29, 1969.40 pp., list of over 100 artists. Important exhibition juried by Al Hollingsworth, Reginald Gammon and Louis Sloan. Intro. by curator Randall J. Craig mentions many artists not in the exhibition. Exhibition includes: Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Ralph Arnold, James Ayers, Frederick Bacon, Joseph C. Bailey, Janette Banks, Edward M. Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Harry W. Bayton, Romare Bearden, Betty Blayton, James Brantley, Arthur Britt, Charles E. Brown, Samuel J. Brown, Reginald Bryant, Barbara Bullock, Selma Burke, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Frederick Campbell, Barbara Chase-Riboud, LeRoy Clarke, Louise Clement, Eldzier Cortor, R. J. Craig, Nicholas Davis, William Day, Avel DeKnight, J. Brooks Dendy, James Denmark, Reba Dickerson (a.k.a. Reba Dickerson-Hill), Thomas Dickerson Jr., Robert Duncanson, Walter Edmonds, Cliff Eubanks Jr., Charlotte White Franklin, Allan Freelon, Reginald Gammon, Charles W. Gavin, Ranson Z. Gaymon, Walter S. Gilliam, Marvin Hardin, Bernard Harmon, Palmer Hayden, Barkley Hendricks, Alvin Hollingsworth, Humbert Howard, Alfonzo Hudson, Leroy Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnson, Lois M. Jones, Cliff Joseph, Paul Keene, Columbus P. Knox, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, James Lewis, Norman Lewis, Tom Lloyd, Geraldine McCullough, Charles McGee, Thomas A. McKinney, Lloyd McNeill, Juanita Miller, Robert C. Moore, Jimmie Mosely, Horace Pippin, James Porter, Simon D. Prioleau, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Ed J. Purnell, Percy Ricks, Anita B. Riley, Faith Ringgold, Raymond Saunders, Charles Searles, Michael Shelton, Thomas Sills, John Simpson, Merton Simpson, Louis Sloan, Carl R. Smith, Dolphus Smith, Philippe Smith, Frank Stephens, Mary L. Stuckey, Eldridge Suggs III, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Mary Alice Taylor, Russ Thompson, Dox Thrash, Ellen Powell Tiberino, Lloyd Toone, John Wade, Cranston Oliver Walker, Laura Wheeler Waring, Howard Watson, John Brantley Wilder, Earl A. Wilkie, Ed Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Charles E. Yates, Hartwell Yeargans. 4to (26 cm.), wraps. First ed. PRIGOFF, JAMES and ROBIN J. DUNITZ.Walls of Heritage, Walls of Pride: African American Murals.San Francisco: Pomegranate Communications, 2003.242 pp., approx. 225 color plates throughout, notes, bibliog., artist biogs., index. Texts by Floyd Coleman and Michael D. Harris. Covers the African American mural movement from the 1967 Wall of Respect (Chicago), Wall of Dignity (1968, Detroit) to the 1990s, representing over 200 urban murals from New York to Los Angeles, Milwaukee to Atlanta. (Obviously many communities' murals were omitted.) Photographers include Robert A. Sengstacke, et al. Artists include: A One, Darrell Anderson, Dietrich Adonis, Ta-Coumba Aiken, Marcus Akinlana, Charles Alston, Apex, Jean Michel Basquiat, John Biggers, Romare Bearden, Brad Bernard, John T. Biggers, Willie Birch, Blade, Betty Blayton, Edythe Boone, Michael Borders, David Bradford, Bruce Brice, Elmer Brown, Carole Byard, Carla Carr, Alvin Carter, Mitchell Caton, Dana Chandler, Edward Christmas, Chris Clark, Melvin W. Clark, Kevin Cole, Houston Conwill, Brett Cook-Dizney, Anthony Cox, Dewey S. Crumpler, Adrienne Cruz, Alonzo Davis, Charles Vincent Davis, Charles Davis, Senay Dennis, Justine Devan, Therman Dillard, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, Robert Duncanson, Sharon Dunn, Eugene Eda, Eddie Edwards, Melvin Edwards, John Feagin, John Fisher, Leroy Foster, Walker Foster, Franco [Franklin Gaskin], Charles Freeman, Robert Gayton, Stephanie George, Jimmie James Greene, Paul Goodnight, Bernard Goss, Edwin A. Harleston, Michael D. Harris, Vertis Hayes, Jessie Holliman, Nathan Hoskins, John W. Howard, Jean Paul Hubbard, Henry Hudson, Clementine Hunter, Eliot Hunter, Arnold Hurley, Wadsworth Jarrell, Amos Johnson, Jerome Johnson, Sargent Johnson, Calvin Jones, Frederick D. Jones, Lawrence A. Jones, Seitu Jones, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Jack Jordan, Akinsanya Kambon, Kase2, John A. Kendrick, Shyaam Khufu, Doyle Lane, Jacob Lawrence, Charlotte Lewis, Samella Lewis, Jon Onye Lockard, John Lutz, Pontella Mason, Alvin McCray, Charles W. McGee, Allie McGhee, Don McIlvaine, Willie Middlebrook, Aaron D. Miller, Don Miller, Bernice Montgomery, Archibald Motley, Noe (Melvin Henry Samuels, Jr.), Ras Ammar Nsoroma, Noni Olabisi, Maude Owens, James Padgett, Jameel Parker, Vera Parks, James Pate, Alice Patrick, James Phillips, Howardena Pindell, Elliott Pinkney, Arleen Polite, Georgette Powell, Refa (Senay Dennis), Toby Richards, Earle Richardson, Gary Rickson, John Riddle, John A. Robinson (same as John N.), Sano I (Ayumi Chisolm), John T. Scott, William Edouard Scott, Charles Searles, Isaka Shamsud-Din, Mel Simmons, John Sims, Kiela Songhay Smith, Vincent Smith, Nina Smoot-Cain, Spon, Charles Stallings, A. G. Joe Stephenson, Nelson Stevens, Roderick Sykes, Dorian Sylvain, Spencer Taylor, Richard C. Thomas, Louis Vaughn, Vulcan, William (Bill) Walker, WANE, Horace Washington, Richard Watson, C. Siddha Sila Webber, Charles White, Ian White, Bernard Williams, Caleb Williams, Keith Williams, William T. Williams, Hale Woodruff, John Yancey, Terrance Yancey, Bernard Young, et al. (Originally exhibited at the University Art Gallery, California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA, the exhibition as presented in the CAC Gallery, Cambridge City Hall Annex, Cambridge, MA included several Boston muralists not in the original exhibition: Dana Chandler, Paul Goodnight, Jameel Parker, and Gary Rickson.]. Oblong 4to (9.3 x 12.25 in.), cloth, d.j. with CD-ROM. Enlarged edition. ROCHESTER (MI). Oakland University Art Gallery.Seminal Works from the N'Namdi Collection of African American Art.September 13-October 12, 2008.100 pp., 42 color illus. Pref. by George N'Namdi; text by exhibition curator Dick Goody; artist entries by Monica Bowman. Includes: Charles H. Alston, Afro-Brazilian artist Emanoel Araujo, Romare Bearden, Chakaia Booker, Frank Bowling, Carol Ann Carter, Nanette Carter, Ed Clark, Robert Colescott, Beauford Delaney, Herbert Gentry, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, Richard Hunt, Bill Hutson, Rashid Johnson, Phyllis Dianne Jones, Artis Lane, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Al Loving, Richard Mayhew, Charles McGee, Allie McGhee, Tyrone Mitchell, Vicente Pimentel, Howardena Pindell, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, John T. Scott, Charles Searles, Vincent Smith, Bob Thompson, Jack Whitten, Bernard Williams, William T. Williams. 4to (30 cm.), wraps. SOUTHFIELD (MI). 400 Galleria Center.Art for Life Project.May, 1990.Group exhibition. Included: Tyree Guyton, Al Hinton, Lester L. Johnson, Ruth Lampkins, Robert Martin, Charles McGee, Bill Sanders, Gilda Snowden, and Peter Williams. SPRADLING, MARY MACE.In Black and White: Afro-Americans in Print.Kalamazoo: Kalamazoo Public Library, 1980.2 vols. 1089 pp. Includes: John H. Adams, Ron Adams, Alonzo Aden, Muhammad Ali, Baba Alabi Alinya, Charles Alston, Charlotte Amevor, Benny Andrews, Ralph Arnold, William Artis, Ellsworth Ausby, Jacqueline Ayer, Calvin Bailey, Jene Ballentine, Casper Banjo, Henry Bannarn, Edward Bannister, Dutreuil Barjon, Ernie Barnes, Carolyn Plaskett Barrow, Richmond Barthé, Beatrice Bassette, Ad Bates, Romare Bearden, Phoebe Beasley, Roberta Bell, Cleveland Bellow, Ed Bereal, Arthur Berry, DeVoice Berry, Cynthia Bethune, Charles Bible, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Bob Blackburn, Irving Blaney, Bessie Blount, Gloria Bohanon, Leslie Bolling, Shirley Bolton, Charles Bonner, Michael Borders, John Borican, Earl Bostic, Augustus Bowen, David Bowser, David Bradford, Edward Brandford, Brumsic Brandon, William Braxton, Arthur Britt Sr., Benjamin Britt, Sylvester Britton, Elmer Brown, Fred Brown, Kay Brown, Margery Brown, Richard L. Brown, Samuel Brown, Vivian E. Browne, Henry Brownlee, Linda Bryant, Starmanda Bullock, Juana Burke, Selma Burke, Eugene Burkes, Viola Burley, Calvin Burnett, John Burr, Margaret Burroughs, Nathaniel Bustion, Sheryle Butler, Elmer Simms Campbell, Thomas Cannon, Nick Canyon, Edward Carr, Art Carraway, Ted Carroll, Joseph S. Carter, William Carter, Catti, George Washington Carver, Yvonne Catchings, Elizabeth Catlett, Mitchell Caton, Dana Chandler, Kitty Chavis, George Clack, Claude Clark, Ed Clark, J. Henrik Clarke, Leroy Clarke, Ladybird Cleveland, Floyd Coleman, Donald Coles, Margaret Collins, Paul Collins, Sam Collins, Dan Concholar, Arthur Coppedge, Wallace X. Conway, Leonard Cooper, William A. Cooper, Art Coppedge, Eldzier Cortor, Samuel Countee, Harold Cousins, William Craft, Cleo Crawford, Marva Cremer, Ernest Crichlow, Allan Crite, Jerrolyn Crooks, Harvey Cropper, Doris Crudup, Robert Crump, Dewey Crumpler, Frank E. Cummings, William Curtis, Mary Reed Daniel, Alonzo Davis, Charles Davis, Willis "Bing" Davis, Dale Davis, Charles C. Dawson, Juette Day, Thomas Day, Roy DeCarava, Paul DeCroom, Avel DeKnight, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Richard Dempsey, Murry DePillars, Robert D'Hue, Kenneth Dickerson, Leo Dillon, Raymond Dobard, Vernon Dobard, Jeff Donaldson, Aaron Douglas, Emory Douglas, Robert Douglass, Glanton Dowdell, David Driskell, Yolande Du Bois, Robert Duncanson, Eugenia Dunn, John Dunn, Adolphus Ealey, Eugene Eda, Melvin Edwards, Gaye Elliington, Annette Ensley, Marion Epting, Minnie Evans, Frederick Eversley, James Fairfax, Kenneth Falana, Allen Fannin, John Farrar, William Farrow, Elton Fax, Muriel Feelings, Tom Feelings, Frederick Flemister, Mikelle Fletcher, Curt Flood, Thomas Floyd, Doyle Foreman, Mozelle Forte (costume and fabric designer), Amos Fortune, Mrs. C.R. Foster, Inez Fourcard (as Fourchard), John Francis, Miriam Francis, Allan Freelon, Meta Warrick Fuller, Stephany Fuller, Gale Fulton-Ross, Ibibio Fundi, Alice Gafford, Otis Galbreath, West Gale, Reginald Gammon, Jim Gary, Herbert Gentry, Joseph Geran, Jimmy Gibbez, Sam Gilliam, Robert Glover, Manuel Gomez, Russell Gordon, Rex Goreleigh, Bernard Goss, Samuel Green, William Green, Donald Greene, Joseph Grey, Ron Griffin, Eugene Grigsby, Henry Gudgell, Charles Haines, Clifford Hall, Horathel Hall, Wesley Hall, David Hammons, James Hampton, Phillip Hampton, Lorraine Hansberry, Marvin Harden, Arthur Hardie, Inge Hardison, John Hardrick, Edwin Harleston, William A. Harper, Gilbert Harris, John Harris, Maren Hassinger, Isaac Hathaway, Frank Hayden, Kitty Hayden, Palmer Hayden, Vertis Hayes, Wilbur Haynie, Dion Henderson, Ernest Herbert, Leon Hicks, Hector Hill, Tony Hill, Geoffrey Holder, Al Hollingsworth, Varnette Honeywood, Earl Hooks, Humbert Howard, James Howard, Raymond Howell, Julien Hudson, Manuel Hughes, Margo Humphrey, Thomas Hunster, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Norman Hunter, Orville Hurt, Bill Hutson, Nell Ingram, Tanya Izanhour, Ambrose Jackson, Earl Jackson, May Jackson, Nigel Jackson, Suzanne Jackson, Walter Jackson, Louise Jefferson, Ted Joans, Daniel Johnson, Lester L. Johnson, Jr., Malvin Gray Johnson, Marie Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Barbara Jones, Ben Jones, Calvin Jones, Frederick D. Jones Jr., James Arlington Jones, Lawrence Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Eddie Jack Jordan, Ronald Joseph, Lemuel Joyner, Paul Keene, Elyse J. Kennart, Joseph Kersey, Gwendolyn Knight, Lawrence Compton Kolawole, Oliver LaGrone, Artis Lane, Doyle Lane, Raymond Lark, Lewis H. Latimer, Jacob Lawrence, Clarence Lawson, Bertina Lee, Joanna Lee, Peter Lee, Hughie Lee-Smith, Leon Leonard, Curtis Lewis, Edmonia Lewis, James Edward Lewis, Norman Lewis, Samella Lewis, Charles Lilly, Henri Linton, Jules Lion, Romeyn Lippman, Tom Lloyd, Jon Lockard, Juan Logan, Willie Longshore, Ed Loper, Ed Love, Al Loving, Geraldine McCullough, Lawrence McGaugh, Charles McGee, Donald McIlvaine, James McMillan, William McNeil, Lloyd McNeill, David Mann, William Marshall, Helen Mason, Philip Mason, Winifred Mason, Calvin Massey, Lester (Nathan) Mathews, William Maxwell, Richard Mayhew, Valerie Maynard, Yvonne Meo, Sam Middleton, Onnie Millar, Aaron Miller, Eva Miller, Lev Mills, P'lla Mills, Evangeline J. Montgomery, Arthur Monroe, Frank Moore, Ron Moore, Scipio Moorhead, Norma Morgan, Ken Morris, Calvin Morrison, Jimmie Mosely, Leo Moss, Lottie Moss, Archibald Motley, Hugh Mulzac, Frank Neal, George Neal, Otto Neals, Shirley Nero, Effie Newsome, Nommo, George Norman, Georg Olden, Ademola Olugebefola, Conora O'Neal (fashion designer), Cora O'Neal, Lula O'Neal, Pearl O'Neal, Ron O'Neal, Hayward Oubré, John Outterbridge, Carl Owens, Lorenzo Pace, Alvin Paige, Robert Paige, William Pajaud, Denise Palm, Norman Parish, Jules Parker, James Parks, Edgar Patience, Angela Perkins, Marion Perkins, Michael Perry, Jacqueline Peters, Douglas Phillips, Harper Phillips, Delilah Pierce, Howardena Pindell, Horace Pippin, Julie Ponceau, James Porter, Leslie Price, Ramon Price, Nelson Primus, Nancy Prophet, Noah Purifoy, Teodoro Ramos Blanco y Penita, Otis Rathel, Patrick Reason, William Reid, John Rhoden, Barbara Chase-Riboud, William Richmond, Percy Ricks, Gary Rickson, John Riddle, Gregory Ridley, Faith Ringgold, Malkia Roberts, Brenda Rogers, Charles Rogers, George Rogers, Arthur Rose, Nancy Rowland, Winfred Russell, Mahler Ryder, Betye Saar, Charles Sallee, Marion Sampler, John Sanders, Walter Sanford, Raymond Saunders, Augusta Savage, William E. Scott, Charles Sebree, Thomas Sills, Carroll Simms, Jewel Simon, Walter Simon, Merton Simpson, William H. Simpson, Louis Slaughter, Gwen Small, Albert A. Smith, Alvin Smith, Hughie Lee-Smith, John Henry Smith, Jacob Lawrence, John Steptoe, Nelson Stevens, Edward Stidum, Elmer C. Stoner, Lou Stovall, Henry O. Tanner, Ralph Tate, Betty Blayton Taylor, Della Taylor, Bernita Temple, Herbert Temple, Alma Thomas, Elaine Thomas, Larry Thomas, Carolyn Thompson, Lovett Thompson, Mildred Thompson, Mozelle Thompson, Robert (Bob) Thompson, Dox Thrash, Neptune Thurston, John Torres, Nat Turner, Leo Twiggs, Bernard Upshur, Royce Vaughn, Ruth Waddy, Anthony Walker, Earl Walker, Larry Walker, William Walker, Daniel Warburg, Eugene Warburg, Carole Ward, Laura Waring, Mary P. Washington, James Watkins, Lawrence Watson, Edward Webster, Allen A. Weeks, Robert Weil, James Wells, Pheoris West, Sarah West, John Weston, Delores Wharton, Amos White, Charles White, Garrett Whyte, Alfredus Williams, Chester Williams, Douglas R. Williams, Laura Williams, Matthew Williams, Morris Williams, Peter Williams, Rosetta Williams (as Rosita), Walter Williams, William T. Williams, Ed Wilson, Ellis Wilson, Fred Wilson, John Wilson, Stanley Wilson, Vincent Wilson, Hale Woodruff, Bernard Wright, Charles Young, Kenneth Young, Milton Young. [Note the 3rd edition consists of two volumes published by Gale Research in 1980, with a third supplemental volume issued in 1985.] Large stout 4tos, red cloth. 3rd revised expanded edition. ST LOUIS (MO). St. Louis Public Library.An index to Black American artists.St. Louis: St. Louis Public Library, 1972.50 pp. Also includes art historians such as Henri Ghent. In this database, only artists are cross-referenced. 4to (28 cm.) THOMISON, DENNIS.The Black Artist in America: An Index to Reproductions.Metuchen: Scarecrow Press, 1991.Includes: index to Black artists, bibliography (including doctoral dissertations and audiovisual materials.) Many of the dozens of spelling errors and incomplete names have been corrected in this entry and names of known white artists omitted from our entry, but errors may still exist in this entry, so beware: Jesse Aaron, Charles Abramson, Maria Adair, Lauren Adam, Ovid P. Adams, Ron Adams, Terry Adkins, (Jonathan) Ta Coumba T. Aiken, Jacques Akins, Lawrence E. Alexander, Tina Allen, Pauline Alley-Barnes, Charles Alston, Frank Alston, Charlotte Amevor, Emma Amos (Levine), Allie Anderson, Benny Andrews, Edmund Minor Archer, Pastor Argudin y Pedroso [as Y. Pedroso Argudin], Anna Arnold, Ralph Arnold, William Artis, Kwasi Seitu Asante [as Kwai Seitu Asantey], Steve Ashby, Rose Auld, Ellsworth Ausby, Henry Avery, Charles Axt, Roland Ayers, Annabelle Bacot, Calvin Bailey, Herman Kofi Bailey, Malcolm Bailey, Annabelle Baker, E. Loretta Ballard, Jene Ballentine, Casper Banjo, Bill Banks, Ellen Banks, John W. Banks, Henry Bannarn, Edward Bannister, Curtis R. Barnes, Ernie Barnes, James MacDonald Barnsley, Richmond Barthé, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Daniel Carter Beard, Romare Bearden, Phoebe Beasley, Falcon Beazer, Arthello Beck, Sherman Beck, Cleveland Bellow, Gwendolyn Bennett, Herbert Bennett, Ed Bereal, Arthur Berry, Devoice Berry, Ben Bey, John Biggers, Camille Billops, Willie Birch, Eloise Bishop, Robert Blackburn, Tarleton Blackwell, Lamont K. Bland, Betty Blayton, Gloria Bohanon, Hawkins Bolden, Leslie Bolling, Shirley Bolton, Higgins Bond, Erma Booker, Michael Borders, Ronald Boutte, Siras Bowens, Lynn Bowers, Frank Bowling, David Bustill Bowser, David Patterson Boyd, David Bradford, Harold Bradford, Peter Bradley, Fred Bragg, Winston Branch, Brumsic Brandon, James Brantley, William Braxton, Bruce Brice, Arthur Britt, James Britton, Sylvester Britton, Moe Brooker, Bernard Brooks, Mable Brooks, Oraston Brooks-el, David Scott Brown, Elmer Brown, Fred Brown, Frederick Brown, Grafton Brown, James Andrew Brown, Joshua Brown, Kay Brown, Marvin Brown, Richard Brown, Samuel Brown, Vivian Browne, Henry Brownlee, Beverly Buchanan, Selma Burke, Arlene Burke-Morgan, Calvin Burnett, Margaret Burroughs, Cecil Burton, Charles Burwell, Nathaniel Bustion, David Butler, Carole Byard, Albert Byrd, Walter Cade, Joyce Cadoo, Bernard Cameron, Simms Campbell, Frederick Campbell, Thomas Cannon (as Canon), Nicholas Canyon, John Carlis, Arthur Carraway, Albert Carter, Allen Carter, George Carter, Grant Carter, Ivy Carter, Keithen Carter, Robert Carter, William Carter, Yvonne Carter, George Washington Carver, Bernard Casey, Yvonne Catchings, Elizabeth Catlett, Frances Catlett, Mitchell Caton, Catti, Charlotte Chambless, Dana Chandler, John Chandler, Robin Chandler, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Kitty Chavis, Edward Christmas, Petra Cintron, George Clack, Claude Clark Sr., Claude Lockhart Clark, Edward Clark, Irene Clark, LeRoy Clarke, Pauline Clay, Denise Cobb, Gylbert Coker, Marion Elizabeth Cole, Archie Coleman, Floyd Coleman, Donald Coles, Robert Colescott, Carolyn Collins, Paul Collins, Richard Collins, Samuel Collins, Don Concholar, Wallace Conway, Houston Conwill, William A. Cooper, Arthur Coppedge, Jean Cornwell, Eldzier Cortor, Samuel Countee, Harold Cousins, Cleo Crawford, Marva Cremer, Ernest Crichlow, Norma Criss, Allan Rohan Crite, Harvey Cropper, Geraldine Crossland, Rushie Croxton, Doris Crudup, Dewey Crumpler, Emilio Cruz, Charles Cullen (White artist), Vince Cullers, Michael Cummings, Urania Cummings, DeVon Cunningham, Samuel Curtis, William Curtis, Artis Dameron, Mary Reed Daniel, Aaron Darling, Alonzo Davis, Bing Davis, Charles Davis, Dale Davis, Rachel Davis, Theresa Davis, Ulysses Davis, Walter Lewis Davis, Charles C. Davis, William Dawson, Juette Day, Roy DeCarava, Avel DeKnight, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Nadine Delawrence, Louis Delsarte, Richard Dempsey, J. Brooks Dendy, III (as Brooks Dendy), James Denmark, Murry DePillars, Joseph DeVillis, Robert D'Hue, Kenneth Dickerson, Voris Dickerson, Charles Dickson, Frank Dillon, Leo Dillon, Robert Dilworth, James Donaldson, Jeff Donaldson, Lillian Dorsey, William Dorsey, Aaron Douglas, Emory Douglas, Calvin Douglass, Glanton Dowdell, John Dowell, Sam Doyle, David Driskell, Ulric S. Dunbar, Robert Duncanson, Eugenia Dunn, John Morris Dunn, Edward Dwight, Adolphus Ealey, Lawrence Edelin, William Edmondson, Anthony Edwards, Melvin Edwards, Eugene Eda [as Edy], John Elder, Maurice Ellison, Walter Ellison, Mae Engron, Annette Easley, Marion Epting, Melvyn Ettrick (as Melvin), Clifford Eubanks, Minnie Evans, Darrell Evers, Frederick Eversley, Cyril Fabio, James Fairfax, Kenneth Falana, Josephus Farmer, John Farrar, William Farrow, Malaika Favorite, Elton Fax, Tom Feelings, Claude Ferguson, Violet Fields, Lawrence Fisher, Thomas Flanagan, Walter Flax, Frederick Flemister, Mikelle Fletcher, Curt Flood, Batunde Folayemi, George Ford, Doyle Foreman, Leroy Foster, Walker Foster, John Francis, Richard Franklin, Ernest Frazier, Allan Freelon, Gloria Freeman, Pam Friday, John Fudge, Meta Fuller, Ibibio Fundi, Ramon Gabriel, Alice Gafford, West Gale, George Gamble, Reginald Gammon, Christine Gant, Jim Gary, Adolphus Garrett, Leroy Gaskin, Lamerol A. Gatewood, Herbert Gentry, Joseph Geran, Ezekiel Gibbs, William Giles, Sam Gilliam, Robert Glover, William Golding, Paul Goodnight, Erma Gordon, L. T. Gordon, Robert Gordon, Russell Gordon, Rex Goreleigh, Bernard Goss, Joe Grant, Oscar Graves, Todd Gray, Annabelle Green, James Green, Jonathan Green, Robert Green, Donald Greene, Michael Greene, Joseph Grey, Charles Ron Griffin, Eugene Grigsby, Raymond Grist, Michael Gude, Ethel Guest, John Hailstalk, Charles Haines, Horathel Hall, Karl Hall, Wesley Hall, Edward Hamilton, Eva Hamlin-Miller, David Hammons, James Hampton, Phillip Hampton, Marvin Harden, Inge Hardison, John Hardrick, Edwin Harleston, William Harper, Hugh Harrell, Oliver Harrington, Gilbert Harris, Hollon Harris, John Harris, Scotland J. B. Harris, Warren Harris, Bessie Harvey, Maren Hassinger, Cynthia Hawkins (as Thelma), William Hawkins, Frank Hayden, Kitty Hayden, Palmer Hayden, William Hayden, Vertis Hayes, Anthony Haynes, Wilbur Haynie, Benjamin Hazard, June Hector, Dion Henderson, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, William Henderson, Barkley Hendricks, Gregory A. Henry, Robert Henry, Ernest Herbert, James Herring, Mark Hewitt, Leon Hicks, Renalda Higgins, Hector Hill, Felrath Hines, Alfred Hinton, Tim Hinton, Adrienne Hoard, Irwin Hoffman, Raymond Holbert, Geoffrey Holder, Robin Holder, Lonnie Holley, Alvin Hollingsworth, Eddie Holmes, Varnette Honeywood, Earl J. Hooks, Ray Horner, Paul Houzell, Helena Howard, Humbert Howard, John Howard, Mildred Howard, Raymond Howell, William Howell, Calvin Hubbard, Henry Hudson, Julien Hudson, James Huff, Manuel Hughes, Margo Humphrey, Raymond Hunt, Richard Hunt, Clementine Hunter, Elliott Hunter, Arnold Hurley, Bill Hutson, Zell Ingram, Sue Irons, A. B. Jackson, Gerald Jackson, Harlan Jackson, Hiram Jackson, May Jackson, Oliver Jackson, Robert Jackson, Suzanne Jackson, Walter Jackson, Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Bob James, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jasmin Joseph [as Joseph Jasmin], Archie Jefferson, Rosalind Jeffries, Noah Jemison, Barbara Fudge Jenkins, Florian Jenkins, Chester Jennings, Venola Jennings, Wilmer Jennings, Georgia Jessup, Johana, Daniel Johnson, Edith Johnson, Harvey Johnson, Herbert Johnson, Jeanne Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Marie Johnson-Calloway, Milton Derr (as Milton Johnson), Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Joshua Johnston, Ben Jones, Calvin Jones, Dorcas Jones, Frank A. Jones, Frederick D. Jones, Jr. (as Frederic Jones), Henry B. Jones, Johnny Jones, Lawrence Arthur Jones, Leon Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Nathan Jones, Tonnie Jones, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Jack Jordan, Cliff Joseph, Ronald Joseph, Lemuel Joyner, Edward Judie, Michael Kabu, Arthur Kaufman, Charles Keck, Paul Keene, John Kendrick, Harriet Kennedy, Leon Kennedy, Joseph Kersey; Virginia Kiah, Henri King, James King, Gwendolyn Knight, Robert Knight, Lawrence Kolawole, Brenda Lacy, (Laura) Jean Lacy, Roy LaGrone, Artis Lane, Doyle Lane, Raymond Lark, Carolyn Lawrence, Jacob Lawrence, James Lawrence, Clarence Lawson, Louis LeBlanc, James Lee, Hughie Lee-Smith, Lizetta LeFalle-Collins, Leon Leonard, Bruce LeVert, Edmonia Lewis, Edwin E. Lewis, Flora Lewis, James E. Lewis, Norman Lewis, Roy Lewis, Samella Lewis, Elba Lightfoot, Charles Lilly [as Lily], Arturo Lindsay, Henry Linton, Jules Lion, James Little, Marcia Lloyd, Tom Lloyd, Jon Lockard, Donald Locke, Lionel Lofton, Juan Logan, Bert Long, Willie Longshore, Edward Loper, Francisco Lord, Jesse Lott, Edward Love, Nina Lovelace, Whitfield Lovell, Alvin Loving, Ramon Loy, William Luckett, John Lutz, Don McAllister, Theadius McCall, Dindga McCannon, Edward McCluney, Jesse McCowan, Sam McCrary, Geraldine McCullough, Lawrence McGaugh, Charles McGee, Donald McIlvaine, Karl McIntosh, Joseph Mack, Edward McKay, Thomas McKinney, Alexander McMath, Robert McMillon, William McNeil, Lloyd McNeill, Clarence Major, William Majors, David Mann, Ulysses Marshall, Phillip Lindsay Mason, Lester Mathews, Sharon Matthews, William (Bill) Maxwell, Gordon Mayes, Marietta Mayes, Richard Mayhew, Valerie Maynard, Victoria Meek, Leon Meeks, Yvonne Meo, Helga Meyer, Gaston Micheaux, Charles Mickens, Samuel Middleton, Onnie Millar, Aaron Miller, Algernon Miller, Don Miller, Earl Miller, Eva Hamlin Miller, Guy Miller, Julia Miller, Charles Milles, Armsted Mills, Edward Mills, Lev Mills, Priscilla Mills (P'lla), Carol Mitchell, Corinne Mitchell, Tyrone Mitchell, Arthur Monroe, Elizabeth Montgomery, Ronald Moody, Ted Moody, Frank Moore, Ron Moore, Sabra Moore, Theophilus Moore, William Moore, Leedell Moorehead, Scipio Moorhead, Clarence Morgan, Norma Morgan, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Patricia Morris, Keith Morrison, Lee Jack Morton, Jimmie Mosely, David Mosley, Lottie Moss, Archibald Motley, Hugh Mulzac, Betty Murchison, J. B. Murry, Teixera Nash, Inez Nathaniel, Frank Neal, George Neal, Jerome Neal, Robert Neal, Otto Neals, Robert Newsome, James Newton, Rochelle Nicholas, John Nichols, Isaac Nommo, Oliver Nowlin, Trudell Obey, Constance Okwumabua, Osira Olatunde, Kermit Oliver, Yaounde Olu, Ademola Olugebefola, Mary O'Neal, Haywood Oubré, Simon Outlaw, John Outterbridge, Joseph Overstreet, Carl Owens, Winnie Owens-Hart, Lorenzo Pace, William Pajaud, Denise Palm, James Pappas, Christopher Parks, James Parks, Louise Parks, Vera Parks, Oliver Parson, James Pate, Edgar Patience, John Payne, Leslie Payne, Sandra Peck, Alberto Pena, Angela Perkins, Marion Perkins, Michael Perry, Bertrand Phillips, Charles James Phillips, Harper Phillips, Ted Phillips, Delilah Pierce, Elijah Pierce, Harold Pierce, Anderson Pigatt, Stanley Pinckney, Howardena Pindell, Elliott Pinkney, Jerry Pinkney, Robert Pious, Adrian Piper, Horace Pippin, Betty Pitts, Stephanie Pogue, Naomi Polk, Charles Porter, James Porter, Georgette Powell, Judson Powell, Richard Powell, Daniel Pressley, Leslie Price, Ramon Price, Nelson Primus, Arnold Prince, E. (Evelyn?) Proctor, Nancy Prophet, Ronnie Prosser, William Pryor, Noah Purifoy, Florence Purviance, Martin Puryear, Mavis Pusey, Teodoro Ramos Blanco y Penita, Helen Ramsaran, Joseph Randolph; Thomas Range, Frank Rawlings, Jennifer Ray, Maxine Raysor, Patrick Reason, Roscoe Reddix, Junius Redwood, James Reed, Jerry Reed, Donald Reid, O. Richard Reid, Robert Reid, Leon Renfro, John Rhoden, Ben Richardson, Earle Richardson, Enid Richardson, Gary Rickson, John Riddle, Gregory Ridley, Faith Ringgold, Haywood Rivers, Arthur Roach, Malkia Roberts, Royal Robertson, Aminah Robinson, Charles Robinson, John N. Robinson, Peter L. Robinson, Brenda Rogers, Charles Rogers, Herbert Rogers, Juanita Rogers, Sultan Rogers, Bernard Rollins, Henry Rollins, Arthur Rose, Charles Ross, James Ross, Nellie Mae Rowe, Sandra Rowe, Nancy Rowland, Winfred Russsell, Mahler Ryder, Alison Saar, Betye Saar, Charles Sallee, JoeSam., Marion Sampler, Bert Samples, Juan Sanchez, Eve Sandler, Walter Sanford, Floyd Sapp, Raymond Saunders, Augusta Savage, Ann Sawyer, Sydney Schenck, Vivian Schuyler Key, John Scott (Johnny) , John Tarrell Scott, Joyce Scott, William Scott, Charles Searles, Charles Sebree, Bernard Sepyo, Bennie Settles, Franklin Shands, Frank Sharpe, Christopher Shelton, Milton Sherrill, Thomas Sills, Gloria Simmons, Carroll Simms, Jewell Simon, Walter Simon, Coreen Simpson, Ken Simpson, Merton Simpson, William Simpson, Michael Singletary (as Singletry), Nathaniel Sirles, Margaret Slade (Kelley), Van Slater, Louis Sloan, Albert A. Smith, Alfred J. Smith, Alvin Smith, Arenzo Smith, Damballah Dolphus Smith, Floyd Smith, Frank Smith, George Smith, Howard Smith, John Henry Smith, Marvin Smith, Mary T. Smith, Sue Jane Smith, Vincent Smith, William Smith, Zenobia Smith, Rufus Snoddy, Sylvia Snowden, Carroll Sockwell, Ben Solowey, Edgar Sorrells, Georgia Speller, Henry Speller, Shirley Stark, David Stephens, Lewis Stephens, Walter Stephens, Erik Stephenson, Nelson Stevens, Mary Stewart, Renée Stout, Edith Strange, Thelma Streat, Richard Stroud, Dennis Stroy, Charles Suggs, Sharon Sulton, Johnnie Swearingen, Earle Sweeting, Roderick Sykes, Clarence Talley, Ann Tanksley, Henry O. Tanner, James Tanner, Ralph Tate, Carlton Taylor, Cecil Taylor, Janet Taylor Pickett, Lawrence Taylor, William (Bill) Taylor, Herbert Temple, Emerson Terry, Evelyn Terry, Freida Tesfagiorgis, Alma Thomas, Charles Thomas, James "Son Ford" Thomas, Larry Erskine Thomas, Matthew Thomas, Roy Thomas, William Thomas (a.k.a. Juba Solo), Conrad Thompson, Lovett Thompson, Mildred Thompson, Phyllis Thompson, Bob Thompson, Russ Thompson, Dox Thrash, Mose Tolliver, William Tolliver, Lloyd Toone, John Torres, Elaine Towns, Bill Traylor, Charles Tucker, Clive Tucker, Yvonne Edwards Tucker, Charlene Tull, Donald Turner, Leo Twiggs, Alfred Tyler, Anna Tyler, Barbara Tyson Mosley, Bernard Upshur, Jon Urquhart, Florestee Vance, Ernest Varner, Royce Vaughn, George Victory, Harry Vital, Ruth Waddy, Annie Walker, Charles Walker, Clinton Walker, Earl Walker, Lawrence Walker, Raymond Walker [a.k.a. Bo Walker], William Walker, Bobby Walls, Daniel Warburg, Eugene Warburg, Denise Ward-Brown, Evelyn Ware, Laura Waring, Masood Ali Warren, Horace Washington, James Washington, Mary Washington, Timothy Washington, Richard Waters, James Watkins, Curtis Watson, Howard Watson, Willard Watson, Richard Waytt, Claude Weaver, Stephanie Weaver, Clifton Webb, Derek Webster, Edward Webster, Albert Wells, James Wells, Roland Welton, Barbara Wesson, Pheoris West, Lamonte Westmoreland, Charles White, Cynthia White, Franklin White, George White, J. Philip White, Jack White (sculptor), Jack White (painter), John Whitmore, Jack Whitten, Garrett Whyte, Benjamin Wigfall, Bertie Wiggs, Deborah Wilkins, Timothy Wilkins, Billy Dee Williams, Chester Williams, Douglas Williams, Frank Williams, George Williams, Gerald Williams, Jerome Williams, Jose Williams, Laura Williams, Matthew Williams, Michael K. Williams, Pat Ward Williams, Randy Williams, Roy Lee Williams, Todd Williams, Walter Williams, William T. Williams, Yvonne Williams, Philemona Williamson, Stan Williamson, Luster Willis, A. B. Wilson, Edward Wilson, Ellis Wilson, Fred Wilson, George Wilson, Henry Wilson, John Wilson, Stanley C. Wilson, Linda Windle, Eugene Winslow, Vernon Winslow, Cedric Winters, Viola Wood, Hale Woodruff, Roosevelt Woods, Shirley Woodson, Beulah Woodard, Bernard Wright, Dmitri Wright, Estella Viola Wright, George Wright, Richard Wyatt, Frank Wyley, Richard Yarde, James Yeargans, Joseph Yoakum, Bernard Young, Charles Young, Clarence Young, Kenneth Young, Milton Young. WASHINGTON (DC). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.A Checklist of the Collection.Washington, DC: Smithsonian, 1977.Description of holdings as of 1977, including materials by: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, Romare Bearden, Cinque Gallery, Eldzier Cortor, Ernest Crichlow, Roy DeCarava, Avel DeKnight, Joseph Delaney, Melvin Edwards, Allen Fannin and Dorothy Fannin [as Farmen], Dakar Festival, Harmon Foundation, Palmer Hayden, Al Hollingsworth, Sargent Johnson, Cliff Joseph, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Norman Lewis, Edward Loper, Al Loving, Charles McGee, John Outterbridge, Howardena Pindell, Horace Pippin, John Rhoden, Faith Ringgold, Bill Rivers, Thomas Sills, Merton Simpson, Edward Spriggs, Henry Tanner, James Washington, Weusi Gallery, Charles White, Ellis Wilson, John Wilson, Hale Woodruff WASHINGTON (DC). Arts and Industry Building, Smithsonian Institution.Contemporary Black American Artists.August 1-October 6, 1969.Group exhibition of ten artists: Nathaniel Knight, Alma Thomas, Lou Stovall, Charles McGee, Art Coppedge, Felrath Hines, Norman Lewis, Arthur Smith, Russ Thompson, Walter Williams. Kenneth Young declined to participate. [Review: Dorothy McCardle, "A Maverick Artist," Washington Post, (Aug. 1, 1969):C-3.] WASHINGTON (DC). Howard University Gallery of Art.New Vistas in American Art.March-April, 1961.24 pp., 25 b&w plates, 3 photos (of the prize-winning artists Selma Burke, Meta Fuller, John Rhoden), cover illus., checklist of 117 works. Text by James A. Porter. Jury includes Hughie Lee-Smith and James Lesesne Wells. Painters in exhibition include: Frank Allison, Margaret Burroughs, Ernest Crichlow, Richard Dempsey, David Driskell, Eugenia Dunn, Rex Goreleigh, Phillip J. Hampton, Humbert Howard, Harlan Jackson, Lois Mailou Jones, Alan Junier, Paul Keene, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edward Loper, Charles McGee, Jimmie Mosely, J. Dallas Parks, Delilah Pierce, Harper Phillips, James Porter, Percy Ricks, Jewel Simon, Alma Thomas, Mildred Thompson, James Watkins, James Wells, Ellis Wilson, William White; sculptors include: William Artis, Elizabeth Catlett, Earl Hooks, Sargent Johnson, Jack Jordan, James E. Lewis, Marion Perkins, Gregory Ridley, Charles Stallings, William (Bill) Taylor. Graphic artists included A. B. Jackson, James E. Lewis, Norma Morgan, Harper T. Phillips, Charles Stallings, James Lesesne Wells, Charles White. 8vo, stapled pictorial wraps. WATT, IRENE and BALTHAZAR KORAB photos.Art in the Stations: The Detroit People Mover.Detroit: Art in the Stations Committee, 2004.88 pp., 70 color plates. Foreword by Samuel Sachs II. Documents the public art in the thirteen People Mover stations: the work of eighteen contemporary artists, including tile murals, bronze sculptures, Venetian glass mosaics, and neon installations. Several African American artists included: Charles W. McGee, Allie McGhee, Alvin D. Loving. 4to (12.5 x 10.5 in.), cloth, d.j. First ed. Charles McGee (December 15, 1924 – February 4, 2021) was an American artist and educator known for creating paintings, assemblages, and sculptures. His artwork is in the collections of the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. He also had several large-scale public works in the city of Detroit. Contents1Early life and education1.1Military service2Career2.1Detroit as a creative setting3Awards4Later life5References6External linksEarly life and educationMcGee was born in Clemson, South Carolina, on December 15, 1924. He was first raised by his grandparents, who were sharecroppers.[1] He received his first artistic inspiration while picking cotton and helping his grandfather tend the land.[2][3] There, "he observed firsthand the order and harmony that exists within nature."[3] He had no formal schooling until moving to Detroit at age 10,[4] where he found that "everything was on the move and it hasn’t slowed down yet."[5] in 2017 he observed, "I learned something not being in school — because life is school . . .I learn something every time I move. Every time I go around a corner, something new is revealed to me.”[3] As a boy, McGee attended George Washington Elementary and took art classes at the McGregor Public Library in Highland Park.[6] He attended Cleveland High School near Hamtramck and was active as a creative designer and coordinator of float construction for the school's parades.[6] After high school, McGee went to work for Briggs Manufacturing Company in Detroit.[6] Military serviceMcGee enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1943 and served for three years, including during World War II.[4][7] He was stationed in Nagasaki as part of the Allied occupation of Japan.[1][2] After returning to Detroit, he took advantage of the GI Bill to attend classes at the College for Creative Studies, then known as the Society of Arts and Crafts.[3] CareerThe mediums McGee employed in the early part of his career were charcoal and painting.[2] He had a one-year sojourn in Barcelona in 1968 to learn and sightsee. This experience represented a crossroads in his artistic career. The artwork he produced afterwards centered more on fundamental elements and less on subject matter, and he abandoned the realism that had dominated his early drawings.[1] One notable exception to this was in Noah’s Ark: 'Genesis' (1984) at the Detroit Institute of Arts,[8] which depicts two Egyptian-styled women and animals that are presented in "playful, abstracted simplicity".[1] However, these human representations were created in line with the abstract form he adopted, with Jean Dubuffet named as a key inspiration.[8] Nature was also a key theme in his work, inspired by his childhood experiences while outdoors picking cotton.[2] One of his final works, Unity (2018) painted on the outside of 28 Grand Building,[9] ties in with nature and human interaction.[2] McGee regularly taught art at Eastern Michigan University from 1969 until 1987.[1] He also taught at the University of Michigan and the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center.[4][10] He established Gallery 7 and a small namesake School for the Arts where he taught. He was also responsible for preparing and curating art exhibitions.[1] McGee's paintings, assemblages and sculptures are held in U.S. and international collections, and are on permanent display at the Detroit Institute of Arts,[11] the Dennos Museum, and the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.[12] McGee's work is installed in public settings, including the William Beaumont Hospital of Royal Oak, Michigan and the Detroit People Mover Broadway Station.[13] He co-founded the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit (CAID) in 1978.[14][10] The Charles McGee Community Commons, dedicated by Marygrove College in 2016, stands at the corner of West McNichols Road and Wyoming Avenue in Detroit, across the street from the space that served as McGee's studio for over fifty years. McGee's Playscape II is the centerpiece of the Commons.[15] Detroit as a creative settingAccording to the Kresge Foundation, "McGee developed an unwavering loyalty to the city and its residents, and endowed it with much of his artistic energy and artwork. 'Detroit really has been a heaven for me,' McGee explains. 'It has given me dignity and treated me with respect.'”[16] AwardsMcGee was named the inaugural Kresge Eminent Artist in 2008.[1][16] Administered by the College for Creative Studies, this award honors one Detroit artist each year for professional achievements, cultural contributions, and commitment to the local arts community.[16] The College also awarded him an honorary doctorate for his work as an artist and educator.[17] In early 2019, Michigan Legacy Art Park announced that McGee would receive its 2019 Legacy Award "in recognition of a lifetime of achievements and influences as an artist, teacher, advocate and global citizen."[18][12] Later lifeMcGee suffered a stroke in 2011,[1] which impacted his ability to produce art.[2] He died on February 4, 2021, at his home in Detroit. He was 96, and died of natural causes.[1][17] Charles McGee headed to his studio every day to make art well into his 80s, and he was 91 when one of his major works — a monumental sculpture outside the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History — was unveiled in July 2016. Painting. Sculpture. Assemblage. Drawing. No matter what the medium, McGee’s work was full of exuberance, wonder and beauty — the soulful expression of a man deeply in tune with life, the human capacity for creativity and the sheer joy of making and sharing art. “At that last moment of my life, I'll go out very happy because I feel like nature has given me a kiss of beauty that nobody can take from me,” McGee told the Free Press in 2008. “It's nice to be able to share it with those willing to come into that arena.” The downstairs space at the 1505 Woodward Ave gallery space played a loop of the 2009 documentary 'Charles McGee: Nature' during the opening of 'Still Searching', a solo art exhibit that spans the 70-year career of Detroit-based multimedia artist Charles McGeeMcGee, the prodigious dean of Detroit’s visual arts scene whose works can be seen everywhere from the Detroit Institute of Arts to the Broadway Station of the People Mover and who made invaluable contributions as an influential teacher, gallery owner and arts advocate dating back to the 1960s, died Thursday afternoon of natural causes at his home in Detroit. He was 96. His death was confirmed to the Detroit Free Press by his daughter Lyndsay McGee. McGee was best known for his large-scale mixed-media pieces and commissions that grace indoor and outdoor spaces in metro Detroit. The beloved “Noah’s Ark: 'Genesis'” (1984) at the DIA, 10 feet tall and 15 feet wide, shows two Egyptian-styled women and animals rendered in playful, abstracted simplicity. “Progression” (2005), a three-dimensional aluminum relief in syncopated black-and-white, jitterbugs across a 24-foot expanse at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak. "Still Searching", an exhibit spanning the 70-year career of Detroit-based multimedia artist Charles McGee, drew hundreds to 1505 Woodward Ave. coinciding with the unveiling of his large-scale, outdoor mural "Unity" located directly adjacent to the exhibition.“United We Stand,” the piece at the Wright Museum, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1967 civil disturbance in Detroit. Standing 20-feet tall, the painted steel sculpture explodes with optimism as seven elegantly abstract figures dance together in a jazzy, improvised dance of universal connection and community. "My work is about the power of togetherness," McGee told the Free Press in July 2016. "It's the work of my life, what I think all of my nearly 92 years have been about. … It's all connected just like we are all connected. We don't want to believe that, but we are." McGee’s field of vision was broad. Whether working on a grand or more intimate scale, he reconciled modernist and primitive impulses in his art, figuration and abstraction, spiritual transcendence and whimsical humor. His influences included a 20th-century triumvirate of Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro and especially Jean Dubuffet, but he also paid attention to contemporary currents of the 1960s and ‘70s. Artist Charles McGee, center, greets guests during the opening of his career retrospective in a gallery space at 1505 Woodward Ave in downtown Detroit on June 1, 2017.McGee’s art spoke with an individual voice, and his work was deeply informed by nature, a non-hierarchical view of the world and a deep sense of community. “One thing that strikes you about Charles’ work is his emphasis on interconnectivity,” Julia Myers, professor of art history at Eastern Michigan University, told the Free Press in 2008. “He creates a whole ecology in his work of the relationships of people, animals, plants, whatever.” McGee’s impact in Detroit transcended the work he created in his studio. In 1969, he organized the landmark “Seven Black Artists,” the first all-Black group show at the Detroit Artists Market. At the same time, he started an art school for kids, along with Gallery 7, a pioneering cooperative space in Detroit that championed both white and Black artists. In 1979 he co-founded the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit. Along the way, McGee taught for 18 years at Eastern Michigan University, and continued to teach one day a week at the the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center into his mid-80s. In 2008, he became the first winner of the Troy-based Kresge Foundation’s $50,000 Eminent Artist prize for lifetime contributions to culture in Detroit. Artist Charles McGee,84, in his studio in Detroit on Nov. 26, 2008. McGee won the first annual Kresge Foundation Eminent Artist Award.“Charles has influenced us by not standing still with one idea,” artist and teacher Lester Johnson said in the 2010 Kresge monograph celebrating McGee. “He’s of major importance to this community, and I guess as we all know there’s nobody like him.” McGee was a compact man with long, expressive face, whiskers, hunched posture and gentle manner that belied the hardscrabble journey of his life. He was born on Dec. 15, 1924, in Clemson, South Carolina, and raised initially by his grandparents on their sharecropper farm. He was already working in cotton fields when he was sent to Detroit in 1934 to live with family members. Your stories live here.Fuel your hometown passion and plug into the stories that define it.Create AccountUnable to read or write, McGee, who had never attended school — or even seen an electric light — was tossed into fourth grade. McGee would later say that the feeling of being behind his peers in schools pushed him to work hard to excel in anything he tried to do. By age 16, he was working in Detroit factories. He served in the Marines during World War II and was part of the occupying force in Japan. Artist Charles McGee, 84, reflected in one of his sculptures in his studio in Detroit, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008.McGee, who had shown a propensity for drawing at a young age, studied formally at the Society of Arts and Crafts (now the College for Creative Studies) on the GI Bill between 1947 and 1957. His best early works were charcoal drawings of Black urban life. A turning point came in 1968, when he moved to Barcelona to live, study and explore for a year. McGee began to conceive of art less in terms of subject matter than as a set of fundamental elements like line, shape, color, texture and form. By then he was in his mid-40s, and his art took off in all directions. Upon returning to Detroit, he left behind the realistic drawings of his youth in favor of a diversity of mediums, materials and ideas. Meanwhile, he took on a leadership role in the city’s art scene, founding Gallery 7, organizing and curating exhibitions and teaching both at his shoestring Charles McGee School for the Arts and, from 1969-1987, at EMU in Ypsilanti. His work also began to circulate outside of Michigan in the the late '60s. Over the next two decades he would appear in group shows of contemporary Black artists in New York at the Brooklyn Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art and in touring exhibitions under the umbrellas of the Smithsonian and Corcoran Gallery of Art of Washington, D.C. Artist Charles McGee is seen in an undated photo standing under his untitled geometric mural finished in 1974 located at 234 West Larned at Washington Street in Detroit.At an age when most artists slow down, McGee sped up. He reached his widest audiences after turning 70, completing roughly a dozen public commissions for universities, hospitals, government buildings and more in Detroit, East Lansing, Flint, Mount Pleasant, Wilberforce, Ohio, and elsewhere. He was also feted with numerous solo exhibitions, including those at the DIA, EMU and Marshal M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum at Saginaw Valley State University. Charles McGee headed to his studio every day to make art well into his 80s, and he was 91 when one of his major works — a monumental sculpture outside the Charles H. Wright Museum of African-American History — was unveiled in July 2016. Painting. Sculpture. Assemblage. Drawing. No matter what the medium, McGee’s work was full of exuberance, wonder and beauty — the soulful expression of a man deeply in tune with life, the human capacity for creativity and the sheer joy of making and sharing art. “At that last moment of my life, I'll go out very happy because I feel like nature has given me a kiss of beauty that nobody can take from me,” McGee told the Free Press in 2008. “It's nice to be able to share it with those willing to come into that arena.” The downstairs space at the 1505 Woodward Ave gallery space played a loop of the 2009 documentary 'Charles McGee: Nature' during the opening of 'Still Searching', a solo art exhibit that spans the 70-year career of Detroit-based multimedia artist Charles McGeeMcGee, the prodigious dean of Detroit’s visual arts scene whose works can be seen everywhere from the Detroit Institute of Arts to the Broadway Station of the People Mover and who made invaluable contributions as an influential teacher, gallery owner and arts advocate dating back to the 1960s, died Thursday afternoon of natural causes at his home in Detroit. He was 96. His death was confirmed to the Detroit Free Press by his daughter Lyndsay McGee. McGee was best known for his large-scale mixed-media pieces and commissions that grace indoor and outdoor spaces in metro Detroit. The beloved “Noah’s Ark: 'Genesis'” (1984) at the DIA, 10 feet tall and 15 feet wide, shows two Egyptian-styled women and animals rendered in playful, abstracted simplicity. “Progression” (2005), a three-dimensional aluminum relief in syncopated black-and-white, jitterbugs across a 24-foot expanse at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak. "Still Searching", an exhibit spanning the 70-year career of Detroit-based multimedia artist Charles McGee, drew hundreds to 1505 Woodward Ave. coinciding with the unveiling of his large-scale, outdoor mural "Unity" located directly adjacent to the exhibition.“United We Stand,” the piece at the Wright Museum, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1967 civil disturbance in Detroit. Standing 20-feet tall, the painted steel sculpture explodes with optimism as seven elegantly abstract figures dance together in a jazzy, improvised dance of universal connection and community. "My work is about the power of togetherness," McGee told the Free Press in July 2016. "It's the work of my life, what I think all of my nearly 92 years have been about. … It's all connected just like we are all connected. We don't want to believe that, but we are." McGee’s field of vision was broad. Whether working on a grand or more intimate scale, he reconciled modernist and primitive impulses in his art, figuration and abstraction, spiritual transcendence and whimsical humor. His influences included a 20th-century triumvirate of Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro and especially Jean Dubuffet, but he also paid attention to contemporary currents of the 1960s and ‘70s. Artist Charles McGee, center, greets guests during the opening of his career retrospective in a gallery space at 1505 Woodward Ave in downtown Detroit on June 1, 2017.McGee’s art spoke with an individual voice, and his work was deeply informed by nature, a non-hierarchical view of the world and a deep sense of community. “One thing that strikes you about Charles’ work is his emphasis on interconnectivity,” Julia Myers, professor of art history at Eastern Michigan University, told the Free Press in 2008. “He creates a whole ecology in his work of the relationships of people, animals, plants, whatever.” McGee’s impact in Detroit transcended the work he created in his studio. In 1969, he organized the landmark “Seven Black Artists,” the first all-Black group show at the Detroit Artists Market. At the same time, he started an art school for kids, along with Gallery 7, a pioneering cooperative space in Detroit that championed both white and Black artists. In 1979 he co-founded the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit. Along the way, McGee taught for 18 years at Eastern Michigan University, and continued to teach one day a week at the the Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center into his mid-80s. In 2008, he became the first winner of the Troy-based Kresge Foundation’s $50,000 Eminent Artist prize for lifetime contributions to culture in Detroit. Artist Charles McGee,84, in his studio in Detroit on Nov. 26, 2008. McGee won the first annual Kresge Foundation Eminent Artist Award.“Charles has influenced us by not standing still with one idea,” artist and teacher Lester Johnson said in the 2010 Kresge monograph celebrating McGee. “He’s of major importance to this community, and I guess as we all know there’s nobody like him.” McGee was a compact man with long, expressive face, whiskers, hunched posture and gentle manner that belied the hardscrabble journey of his life. He was born on Dec. 15, 1924, in Clemson, South Carolina, and raised initially by his grandparents on their sharecropper farm. He was already working in cotton fields when he was sent to Detroit in 1934 to live with family members. Your stories live here.Fuel your hometown passion and plug into the stories that define it.Create AccountUnable to read or write, McGee, who had never attended school — or even seen an electric light — was tossed into fourth grade. McGee would later say that the feeling of being behind his peers in schools pushed him to work hard to excel in anything he tried to do. By age 16, he was working in Detroit factories. He served in the Marines during World War II and was part of the occupying force in Japan. Artist Charles McGee, 84, reflected in one of his sculptures in his studio in Detroit, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008.McGee, who had shown a propensity for drawing at a young age, studied formally at the Society of Arts and Crafts (now the College for Creative Studies) on the GI Bill between 1947 and 1957. His best early works were charcoal drawings of Black urban life. A turning point came in 1968, when he moved to Barcelona to live, study and explore for a year. McGee began to conceive of art less in terms of subject matter than as a set of fundamental elements like line, shape, color, texture and form. By then he was in his mid-40s, and his art took off in all directions. Upon returning to Detroit, he left behind the realistic drawings of his youth in favor of a diversity of mediums, materials and ideas. Meanwhile, he took on a leadership role in the city’s art scene, founding Gallery 7, organizing and curating exhibitions and teaching both at his shoestring Charles McGee School for the Arts and, from 1969-1987, at EMU in Ypsilanti. His work also began to circulate outside of Michigan in the the late '60s. Over the next two decades he would appear in group shows of contemporary Black artists in New York at the Brooklyn Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art and in touring exhibitions under the umbrellas of the Smithsonian and Corcoran Gallery of Art of Washington, D.C. Artist Charles McGee is seen in an undated photo standing under his untitled geometric mural finished in 1974 located at 234 West Larned at Washington Street in Detroit.At an age when most artists slow down, McGee sped up. He reached his widest audiences after turning 70, completing roughly a dozen public commissions for universities, hospitals, government buildings and more in Detroit, East Lansing, Flint, Mount Pleasant, Wilberforce, Ohio, and elsewhere. He was also feted with numerous solo exhibitions, including those at the DIA, EMU and Marshal M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum at Saginaw Valley State University.

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