Negro Digest - Freedom Archives

Gray Ward . . . Historian Benjamin
Quarles' Black Abolitionists (Oxford
U . Press) has been issued in a paperback
edition ($1 .95 ) . . Earl
Anthony's Picking Up The .Gun:
Report on the Black Panthers (Dial,
$4.95 ) is the first black-authored
book on the besieged Panthers . Mr .
The Art Scene : The Studio Museum
of Harlem's exhibition of traditional
African masks, figures, musical instruments,
jewelry, textiles and
artifacts (also with some Africainfluenced
Western art) will remain
on view through April 19 . The exhibition
was organized with the
cooperation of the Philadelphia Museum
of Art . . . Over in Brooklyn,
the Community Art Gallery faces a
bleak future if its director, Henri
Ghent, fails in his efforts to raise
funds . The gallery is located in the
Brooklyn Museum but is not included
in the museum's annual budget. Since
its establishment two years ago: the
gallery has served non-professional
artists and the community . . . Dr .
Richard A . Long, director of the
Center for African and African-
American Studies at Atlanta University,
is arranging an art exhibition in
"Homage to Alain Locke," which
will be presented in New York in
May under the joint auspices of the
United Negro College Fund and the
Center for African and African-
American Studies . . . In Baltimore,
the Association of Black Arts/East
presented its second annual art exhibition
in conjunction with the
Thirdworld Museum . . . In Chicago,
original art work reproductions by
six Black artists was featured by
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Anthony was ane of the members
purged from the party in March
1969 . . . John Oliver Killens is author
of the introduction to International
Publishers' reprint of An ABC
of Color, by the late W.E.B . Du
Bois . The book's cover is by Ollie
Harrington, the price $1 .35 .
Academy Arts, a division of Intercraft
Industries Corp ., during the
annual International Home Furnishings
Market. The reproductions included
pen-and-ink art, lithographs
of pastels and pits, prints of original
oils, and silk-screened graphics .
The artists were Yadunde, Don
McIlvaine, Omar Loma, Clifford
Lee, Sylvester Britton and Kush
Bey . . The 1970 Black heritage
calendar produced by the Du Sable
Museum of African American History
features Black artists-a sample
sketch and a brief biography of the
artists . The calendar was edited by
Margaret Burroughs, executive director
of the museum, and Felicia
Ford, a museum staff member . It
sells for $1 .65 per copy and $11 .50
for lots of 10 . They are collectors'
items . The museum is located at 3806
S. Michigan Ave . in Chicago . . .
New York's prestigious Whitney Museum
of American Art is planning
an exhibition of the works of top
Black artists for the 1970-71 season
as a consequence of talks with the
Black Emergency Cultural Coalition .
The museum also agreed to establish
a fund to purchase works by younger
and less well known Black artists .
Members of the Coalition were
Benny Andrews, Cliff Joseph, Reggie
Gammon, Mahler Ryder and Henri
Ghent.
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March 1970 NEGRO DIGEST