William E. Harmon Foundation
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The Harmon Foundation, established in 1921 by white real-estate developer William E. Harmon, is best known for funding and collecting the work of African-American artists.
Dillard University, Harmon Foundation Exhibit, c1936-7
African-American art
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African-American art is a broad term describing visual art created by African Americans. The range of art they have created, and are continuing to create, over more than two centuries is as varied as
William E. Harmon Foundation
…Foundation, established in 1921 by white real-estate developer William E. Harmon (1862–1928), is best known for funding and collecting the work of African-American artists. The Harmon Foundation was established as "a medium through which constructive and inspirational service for others may be rendered." William Harmon…
Edmonia Lewis was commissioned to do President Grant's portrait, c. 1870.
Augusta Savage with Realization, her WPA Federal Art Project, 1938.
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller was Rodin's protegee, 1910.
Engraving of a chained female slave by Patrick H. Reason, 1835. Often circulated with the caption "Am I not a woman and a sister?"