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Best known as senior staff photographer for Jazz at Lincoln Center, <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart<br />
and his cameras have crisscrossed the world. This exhibition celebrates an artist on<br />
the road, and his discovery that his travels from the US to the Caribbean to Africa and<br />
back home are culturally circular journeys.<br />
With music as a constant inspiration, Stewart seeks cultural rhymes and resonant<br />
rhythms to unite the various sites of his photographic odyssey. There have been musicians<br />
at every turn of the compass; dancer-musicians whose movement gives the<br />
sound vision; and audience members whose participation makes the sound a communal<br />
ritual.<br />
Though music is not always Stewart’s subject, his photographs are all musical in spirit<br />
and form. In some cases, Stewart turns his camera to a roadhouse’s back-table where<br />
lovers are speaking low. Or to an outdoor scene where women who have risen with the<br />
sun perform their daily walk to fetch water—following what Stewart calls the “clock of<br />
the earth.” Sometimes the focus is on the visual rhythms Stewart sees as light plays on<br />
cloth. Or as a trio of camels kneel under a storm’s eerie sunshine.<br />
In Cuba, the clock can seem to have stopped in 1959 (the model year for the newest<br />
cars in the country). Yet Stewart captures a vibrant pulse and color there that remind<br />
us how close Havana is to New Orleans, and how deeply Africa runs through both.<br />
It’s the Afro-continuities that interest Stewart the most. Having grown up in the down<br />
south of Tennessee and the “up south” of Chicago before the Civil Rights Act of 1965,<br />
Stewart always understood black America’s selfsufficiencies. He went to Africa to<br />
seek its continuities with the black world at large. “I wanted to see where my people<br />
had come from,” he said. “And after that first visit, I kept coming back.”<br />
What distinguishes Stewart is his passionate eye for uncluttered drama and meaning,<br />
as he celebrates the music of black life: from Jazz at Lincoln Center stages and backstages<br />
to Southern roadhouses, Cuban street parades, and Ghanaian house parties.<br />
This is largely improvised photography, where “improvised” implies the hard-won,<br />
lightning expertise of Charlie Parker, the virtuoso collage-work of Romare Bearden.<br />
With the eye of a painter, Stewart anticipates and composes fast-fleeting moments in a<br />
world with deep, circular routes.
One Eyed Man Santiago, Cuba 1977
<strong>Frank</strong> Stewart was born in Nashville, Tennessee.<br />
His father, <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart, Sr., was a salesman of hi-fidelity recording equipment. His<br />
mother, Dorothy Johnson, was an artist, designer, and model. Both parents immersed<br />
<strong>Frank</strong> and his two sisters in a world where music and visual art mattered. When he<br />
was five, the family moved to Memphis. When he was eight, his mother married the<br />
jazz piano prodigy, Phineas Newborn, Jr. He moved again, this time to New York<br />
City.<br />
When Count Basie invited Newborn, without question one of the best jazz pianists<br />
of his generation, to serve as his opening act at Birdland, Newborn brought his young<br />
stepson onto the New York City jazz scene with him. Together, they went up and<br />
down 52nd Street, and then to other magically named New York City jazz clubs of<br />
the late 1950s: The FiveSpot, The Village Gate, The Village Vanguard. “I got to know<br />
all the cats in Count Basie’s band,” Stewart recalls. “Al Gray, Snooky Young, Count<br />
himself. I also met Miles and Monk, Paul Chambers and Roy Haynes, all of them… I<br />
came from a gospel and R&B background at home. But I got up here and there was<br />
a whole ‘nother musical world. Listening to jazz when I was eight years old, it was like<br />
the avant-garde of today. It was a whole language of improvisation that just escaped<br />
me. But I thought I was cool, you know. I was hip. I was on the scene. I had my little<br />
Blue Car on the Malecon, Havana, 2009<br />
ties on, my vines on. And I was hanging out with him.”<br />
When Newborn declared artistic independence from the networks that controlled<br />
the U.S. music scene, he was barred from recording or performing in this country.<br />
Newborn left the family to work in Europe, and young Stewart was taken back to<br />
Memphis, and then to Chicago, where he lived with his natural father.<br />
It was in Chicago that Stewart took his first art lessons. Like most of his Chicago<br />
buddies, Stewart was a good runner and ball player; but his grandmother, Cora Taylor<br />
Stewart, also signed him up for Saturday drawing classes at the Art Institute of<br />
Chicago. “You’re doing what?!” his friends would say, “You’re going downtown to<br />
draw! Are you crazy?” “I thought I was doing something my mother might like,” Stewart<br />
recalls. “And then I started liking it.” On Saturdays he was among those drawing<br />
the preserved animals at the Field Museum, or trying to capture Grant Park’s shining<br />
Buckingham Fountain with paint on paper. At age thirteen, Stewart traveled<br />
to the March on Washington, where he took some of his first photographs with his<br />
new Brownie box camera—a gift from his mother. “I was turning the camera to make<br />
the pictures look diamond-shaped and what not,” Stewart said. “I couldn’t get close
to Martin Luther King or anything. So I was shooting<br />
people holding signs, shouting, and singing…I look at<br />
those pictures today and say, ‘What was I doing? Was<br />
I drunk?!”<br />
Among his South Side neighborhood friends in Chicago<br />
were Robert Sengstacke and Johnny Simmons,<br />
both of whom were destined to become photographers.<br />
During a visit to the home of Sengstacke, whose family<br />
owned the Chicago Defender newspaper, Stewart saw<br />
his buddy’s photographs blown up to 11 by 14 inches and<br />
mounted on cardboard. These were not the drugstore<br />
prints Stewart was accustomed to. “They were large<br />
and they were just magnificent,” he remembers. And<br />
these friends were listening to jazz. “I had<br />
listened to Miles and them in the Fifties, but I hadn’t<br />
really taken it back up,” said Stewart. “We were into<br />
Motown and the blues in Chicago—the Chess Records<br />
cats like Muddy Waters, Little Walter, and so on. These<br />
guys were listening to jazz and they were cool, and had<br />
berets and goatees. It was a whole other scene. I said,<br />
‘Let me check this out!’”<br />
In 1968, Stewart enrolled in Middle Tennessee State<br />
University, a formerly all-white school near Nashville<br />
that was admitting its first black students. As a track<br />
scholarship student, Stewart was pressed into service as<br />
a physical education major—which seemed far from his<br />
artistic interests. “They had me taking square dancing,<br />
first aid, and CPR. I had to take one humanities class,<br />
and that was English. I got a B in English and a D in ev-<br />
erything else. The white folks’ reaction was, ‘B in English!<br />
Oh, this cat must be a genius!’” During his one semester<br />
at MTSU, <strong>Frank</strong> kept up with track but stopped<br />
attending classes; instead he audited art and art history<br />
classes at nearby Fisk University. By then Sengstacke<br />
was teaching at Fisk, and John Simmons was his assistant.<br />
“I’d go up there and hang out with them. I learned<br />
how to do darkroom technique. I learned about African<br />
American painters from David Driskell, and studied<br />
film-making with Carlton Moss.”<br />
Back in New York, Stewart attended SUNYPurchase<br />
as a political science major, and joined the Mount Vernon<br />
Chapter of the Black Panther Party. “The Panther<br />
thing was low-watt politics,” he recalls. “I wasn’t shaking<br />
the earth. I was selling newspapers and administering<br />
food for the breakfast program. Occasionally we would<br />
picket the Tombs for somebody who got incarcerated.<br />
We would read books by Frantz Fanon.” Yet<br />
he was demoralized by the police infiltration of the Party.<br />
“What disenchanted me about that whole experience<br />
was … you never knew who was the police. Three of ten<br />
would be the police, and they would be the ones setting<br />
policy!” Stewart figured that to enter politics as a career<br />
meant “you either taught political<br />
science or you became some kind of politician. We<br />
didn’t trust politicians, and I didn’t want to teach. So<br />
I thought, ‘Maybe I should start taking some more of<br />
these pictures.’”<br />
The landmark book, Sweet Flypaper of Life (1955), with<br />
photographs by Roy DeCarava and text by Langston<br />
Hughes, was a revelation to him. “I had never seen a<br />
book where black people were depicted in such a positive<br />
light,” he recalls. Stewart was especially inspired<br />
by “the compassion and the tonal range that DeCarava<br />
was able to get out of a print.” “After that, my quest was<br />
clear,” he says. “I would…seek out this man and study<br />
with him.” Stewart was still a teenager when he went<br />
to see DeCarava at his home on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan.<br />
“I was all nervous. I had this little knapsack full<br />
of photographs ironed onto cardboard…I asked him<br />
if I was on the right track, and he said, ‘Yeah, you’re<br />
on the right track….You’re a train on the track!” De-<br />
Carava arranged for Stewart’s admission to Cooper<br />
Union, where he studied with “the master” for a year.<br />
DeCarava taught him that photography was like jazz,<br />
which, “in its most exciting form, is an act of musical<br />
improvisation, an immediate creation,” and that the<br />
black American had “an affinity with” both forms.<br />
Other important mentors at Cooper Union were Jay<br />
Meisel, Joel Meyerowitz, Charles Harbutt, Arnold<br />
Newman, Steven Shore, and Garry Winogrand. It was<br />
Winogrand, Stewart says, who “took the mystique out<br />
of photography” for him. “I always thought that there<br />
was some mystery to great photography, that you had<br />
to be in an inside club, and had to know a whole lot of<br />
technical stuff that nobody else knew. Winogrand just<br />
made that all vanish.” He told Stewart that the only<br />
mystery in photography was “the well-defined fact,” pictures<br />
of, and to take them how I wanted to take them…
.I still had my feelings of what I thought the African<br />
American culture was, and how I could best represent it as an<br />
artist through this medium. But…Cooper Union was like lifting<br />
shackles off of me.”<br />
Stewart graduated from Cooper Union<br />
(B.F.A.) in 1975.<br />
He made his first of several journeys to Africa in 1974: from Liberia<br />
to Nigeria to Upper Volta, Mali, Togo, Dahomey, Senegal,<br />
Ghana. His studies and travels with the art historian Dr. George<br />
Preston sharpened his knowledge of the continent’s history, culture,<br />
and forms. In 1977 and 1978, he made his first of many<br />
trips to Cuba—the latest in October, 2010, with the Jazz at Lincoln<br />
Center Orchestra.<br />
From 1970-1980, he was a regular contributor of photographs to<br />
the African American press, particularly Ebony magazine and the<br />
Chicago Defender. In 1975, he met the painter Romare Bearden,<br />
which sparked a<br />
professional association that lasted until Bearden’s death in 1988.<br />
Through Bearden, Stewart worked as a photographer for several<br />
galleries and museums (1976-1990), including the Studio Museum<br />
in Harlem, the National Urban League’s Gallery 62, Kenkeleba<br />
House, and Cinque Gallery.<br />
Since 1990, Stewart has been senior staff photographer at Jazz<br />
at Lincoln Center. He travels the world with the Jazz at Lincoln<br />
Center Jazz Orchestra.<br />
With Wynton Marsalis as writer, Stewart collaborated on the<br />
book Sweet Swing Blues on the Road (1994). He also collaborated on Smokestack Lightning:<br />
Adventures in the Heart of Barbeque Country (1996), text by Lolis Elie, and Sweet Breath of<br />
Life (2004), text by Ntozake Shange. In 2004, Stewart<br />
published Romare Bearden: Photographs by <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart. Books in progress include studies<br />
of Cuba (Cuba y Su Tumbao) and Africa (The Clock of the Earth).<br />
Stewart’s work appears in major American collections, including the Museum of Modern Art<br />
(NYC), the High Museum (Atlanta), the Mint Museum (Charlotte), the Studio Museum in Harlem,<br />
the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYC), and the George Eastman<br />
House (Rochester).<br />
<strong>Frank</strong> Stewart lives in New York City.<br />
— Robert G. O’Meally<br />
December 1, 2010<br />
Smooke and the lovers, Menphis, 1992
Blues & Abstract Reality, New York, 1992
James Booker, Storyville, N.O., 1980
NY 1<br />
This weekend at Leila Hellers’ LTMH gallery on 78th Street and Madison Avenue see the new exhibit “Pulp<br />
Fiction: The Sequel.” With works by Kezban Arca Batibeki. This is the Turkish artist’s first solo show in the U.S.<br />
and it explores issues of gender, culture and more. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to<br />
6 p.m.<br />
“<strong>Traveling</strong> <strong>Full</strong> <strong>Circle</strong>: <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart’s <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Music</strong>”<br />
www.jalc.org<br />
Harlem World Who/What:<br />
Jazz at Lincoln Center presents a free art exhibition entitled <strong>Traveling</strong> <strong>Full</strong> <strong>Circle</strong>: <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart’s <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Music</strong>.<br />
Best known as senior staff photographer for Jazz at Lincoln Center, <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart and his cameras have crisscrossed<br />
the world. This exhibition celebrates an artist on the road, and his discovery that his travels from the U.S.<br />
to the Caribbean to Africa and back home are culturally circular journeys.<br />
This exhibit is curated by Robert G. O’Meally, C. Daniel Dawson, Diedra Harris-Kelley (Harlem’s Bearden Foundation),<br />
Emily Lordi (editor), and Linda Florio (designer), with Susan Sillins, President, Black Light Productions.<br />
Jazz Time<br />
Exhibit of Jazz Photography by <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart Opens<br />
<strong>Traveling</strong> <strong>Full</strong> <strong>Circle</strong>: <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart’s <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Music</strong>, a show of jazz-inspired photography to open at Jazz at Lincoln<br />
Center on January 22, 2011<br />
By Lee Mergner<br />
Photographer <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart, a protégé of Roy DeCarava and a longtime associate of Wynton Marsalis, will have a<br />
special exhibit open this weekend at Jazz at Lincoln Center in their gallery space on the 5th floor. The show, “<strong>Traveling</strong><br />
<strong>Full</strong> <strong>Circle</strong>: <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart’s <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Music</strong>,” featuring images from his travels from the U.S. to the Caribbean<br />
to Africa, opens on Saturday, January 22 and runs until May 21, 2011. The exhibit is curated by Robert G. O’Meally,<br />
C. Daniel Dawson, Diedra Harris-Kelley, Emily Lordi (editor), and Linda Florio (designer), with Susan Sillins,<br />
President, Black Light Productions. All photographs in the exhibition are available for purchase through Black<br />
Light Productions: 212-799-3797 or info@frankstewartphoto.com.<br />
The exhibit is free and open to the public, Tuesday through Sunday from 10am to 4pm and 6pm to 11pm and Monday<br />
from 6pm to 11pm. For more information, you can also go to Jazz at Lincoln Center’s website.
City Arts<br />
Bowed and Baptized<br />
Photographer <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart, 61, has been the senior staff photographer for Jazz at Lincoln Center for some time,<br />
but he has been transforming life into art since his artist mother bought him a camera when he was a teenager.<br />
“I’ve always been interested in the appearance of light on surfaces,” he says. In <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart’s <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Music</strong>, an<br />
exhibition of his work at the Peter Jay Sharp Arcade in Frederick P. Rose Hall (running through May 21), visitors<br />
can see just how that sensibility informs his work. In eloquent portraits of jazz greats like Miles Davis and scenes<br />
of worship, as in “God’s Trombones,” in which hundreds of women and men gather as Father Divine baptizes the<br />
faithful, his humanity and keen eye uncover the essence of his subjects.<br />
<strong>Frank</strong> Stewart’s “God’s Trombones” on view at JALC. Jazz at Lincoln Center, © <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart/ Blacklight Productions<br />
“<strong>Frank</strong> Stewart’s photographs capture the most personal moments of his many subjects with warmth, insight<br />
and an eye for that which is most enduring,” Wynton Marsalis, artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, says.<br />
Stewart is the author of several books—including a collection of images of Marsalis and his band on the road—and<br />
is represented by Essie Green Galleries in Harlem. He first applied his knowledge to shooting jazz musicians and<br />
their friends in the 1950s, meeting major figures such Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie.<br />
After studying at the Chicago Art Institute, Stewart attended Cooper Union to study under renowned photographer<br />
Roy DeCarava. “He taught a whole philosophy about how to approach a subject honestly and tell the truth,”<br />
Stewart explains. “I hope I got some of that.”<br />
Describing that period in his life, Stewart says, “All I did was take pictures and work so I could take more. I drove<br />
a cab, cooked in restaurants, washed dishes, anything just to be able to stay in New York and photograph. The<br />
only things in my apartment were a mattress and an enlarger. If your art doesn’t totally consume you, you’re just a<br />
dilettante.” In the ’60s, he started getting recognition for the images he contributed to Jet and Ebony magazines,<br />
but he remained driven to expand his understanding of African-American culture, so he began traveling in search<br />
of its roots in New Orleans, the Caribbean and Africa.<br />
Many of those photos are included in the current exhibit. Asked for some of his favorites, Stewart singles out<br />
“Miles in the Green Room,” which shows a tense Davis, his back against the wall, surrounded by far more relaxed<br />
musicians and friends; “The Bow,” where members of the Marsalis band all bow together onstage at Carnegie<br />
Hall; and “Hammond B,” an image of the charred and weathered remains of a Hammond organ photographed in<br />
New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.<br />
Stewart has plans for more extensive travels in Africa over the next year, having a new fascination with the Tuareg<br />
people of Mali. While he says he’ll never stop exploring, he also explains, “What you eventually realize is that you<br />
go out looking for yourself.”
Amadeo Roldán Conservatory, Havana, 2010
Hammond B, New Orleans, 2007<br />
Baptist Drum, New Orleans, 2006
<strong>Frank</strong> Stewart<br />
Born Nashville, TN, July 27, 1949<br />
Lives and works in New York City<br />
EDUCATION:<br />
1975 BFA Photography, Cooper Union<br />
1972 Art Institute of Chicago<br />
Formal studies with Todd Papageorge, Garry Winogrand,<br />
Joel Meyerowitz,<br />
Roy DeCarava, and Jay Maisel<br />
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:<br />
2011 <strong>Traveling</strong> <strong>Full</strong> <strong>Circle</strong>, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York<br />
2010 A Fulcrum of Time, Bill Hodges Gallery, New York<br />
2009 The Contemporary <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart, Essie Green Galleries, Harlem<br />
2007 The False Face Mardi Gras, Essie Green Galleries, New York<br />
2007 Jazz Improvisations, Jack Leigh Gallery, Savannah<br />
2006 The Art of <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart, Adrian Ruehl Gallery, New York<br />
2006 Basin Street Station, New Orleans<br />
2005 <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart: RECENT COLOR, Laumont Editions Gallery, New York<br />
2005 Steppin’, Black Pearl Museum, Chicago<br />
2005 <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart: Jazz & Cuba, 514 WEST Gallery, Savannah, GA<br />
2005 <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart:Romare Bearden/The Last Years, High Museum, Atlanta,GA<br />
2004 <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Time Warner Building, NY, NY<br />
2004 <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart: Romare Bearden: The Last Years, June Kelly, NY, NY<br />
2004 Dos Momentos en La Vida, Galerias del ICAIC, Havana, Cuba<br />
2003 Windows, Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York City<br />
2002 A Slice of Light, The Cuban Art Space, New York City<br />
2002 <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart: Photographs, Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA.<br />
1999 In the House of Swing, Denise Andrews At Resonance Gallery, Miami<br />
1997 <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart: Riffs, Rectangles, and Responses: 25 Years of<br />
Photography, Leica Gallery, New York City<br />
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:<br />
2010 Panopticon Gallery of Photography, Boston, Massachusetts<br />
2009 Galerie Intemporel, Paris, France<br />
2009 Sound: Print: Record, University Museums, Newwark, Delaware<br />
2006 Engulfed by Katrina, Photography Before & After the Storm,<br />
Nathan Cummings Foundation & NYU Tisch School of the Arts, NY<br />
2005 Delta to Delta, Museum of African Art and Origins, Harlem, New York<br />
2005 Carnival, Cummings Foundation, New York<br />
2004 Romare Bearden, Schomburg Center, New York<br />
2003 Saturday Night Sunday Morning, Leica Gallery, New York City<br />
2000 Harlem: A Group Exhibition, Leica Gallery, New York City<br />
UFA Gallery Presents Jazz Plus, Kamoinge Workshop, New York City<br />
1999 Black New York Photographers of the 20th Century, Selections from the<br />
Schomburg Center Collections, New York City<br />
1996 Sight Sound in the Subway (2-person show), The 4th Street Photo Gallery, NYC<br />
1989 The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism, Washington Project<br />
for the Arts, Washington, D.C.<br />
1986 Two Schools: New York and Chicago Contemporary African-American<br />
Photography of the 60s and 70s, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York<br />
1984<br />
–1985 10 Photographers: Olympic Images at The Temporary<br />
Contemporary, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.<br />
1983 Contemporary Afro-American Photographers, Allen Memorial Art<br />
Museum, Oberlin College<br />
1982 New Acquisitions, Schomburg Library and Research Center, Harlem, NY<br />
1979 Harlem On My Mind 68-78, International Center of Photography,<br />
New York City<br />
Black Eyes/Light (2-person show), Studio Museum of Harlem and<br />
University of Massachusetts, Amherst<br />
Diaspora II, Haitian-American Institute, Haiti<br />
1978 Black Photographers Annual (traveling exhibition to Soviet Union)<br />
1977 Black Photographers Annual, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.<br />
SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS:<br />
2002–2003 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow<br />
1990 Artist in Residence, Syracuse University, Light Work Gallery<br />
1987–1988 Artist in Residence, Kenkeleba House, Inc.<br />
1984 National Commission by the Los Angeles Olympic Committee<br />
1984–1985 National Endowment for the Arts, Photographer’s Fellowship<br />
1982–983 National Endowment for the Arts, Photographer’s Fellowship<br />
1980 Creative Artists Public Service Award<br />
1977 Appointed photographer, United States Delegation to Cuba<br />
1975 Artist in Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem<br />
PUBLICATIONS:<br />
–Sweet Breath of Life; edited by <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart, text by Ntozake Shange,<br />
photographs by The Kamoinge Workshop, Simon & Schuster, c 2004<br />
–ROMARE BEARDEN; Photographs by <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart, Pomegranate Inc.<br />
c 2004<br />
–Smokestack Lightning: Adventures in the Heart of Barbeque Country; written<br />
by Lolis Elie, photographs by <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, c 1996<br />
–Sweet Swing Blues on the Road; written by Wynton Marsalis, photographs by<br />
<strong>Frank</strong> Stewart, WW Norton & Company, c 1994<br />
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:<br />
1990–Present Senior Staff Photographer, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York<br />
1982–1990 Photographic Specialist, Kenkeleba House, Inc., New York<br />
1986 Associate Director, Contemporary American Artists Series, Inc.<br />
(non-profit historical film company), New York<br />
1984–1986 Art Director/Co-Owner, Onyx Art Gallery, New York<br />
1978–1985 Photographic Consultant, Gallery 62, The National Urban League,<br />
1976–1982 Staff Photographer, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York<br />
1974–1988 Photographic Consultant to Romare Bearden<br />
1975 Consultant, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture<br />
1972–1975 Adjunct Professor, State University at Purchase, Purchase, NY<br />
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:<br />
Museum of Modern Art, New York City<br />
George Eastman House, Rochester, New York<br />
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA<br />
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC<br />
David C. Driskell Collection, housed at University of Maryland<br />
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City<br />
The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York<br />
Paul Jones Collection, housed at The University of Delaware<br />
Museum of African Art and Origins (MoAaO), Harlem, New York<br />
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia<br />
BOOKS IN PROGRESS<br />
Cuba y Su Tumbao<br />
Clock of the Earth<br />
Confluence of Time
Call & Echo, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire, 1974
Jazz at Lincoln Center January 22 - August 7, 2011<br />
This exhibition was made possible by a collaboration between Jazz at Lincoln Center, <strong>Frank</strong> Stewart<br />
and Susan Sillins/Black Light Productions. The Jazz at Lincoln Center’s curatorial group consisted<br />
of Robert G. O’Meally, C. Daniel Dawson, Diedra Harris-Kelley and Linda Florio.
Moody Object Studies<br />
Mutes<br />
USA, 1991<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
15 x 15<br />
Berlin,<br />
Germany, 2000<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
16 x 20<br />
Sir Roland Hannah<br />
New York, 1991<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
16 x 20<br />
Cassandra Wilson<br />
New Haven, 1997<br />
Silver gelatin,<br />
15 x 15<br />
Mainly NYC<br />
Skaine & Coopty<br />
Miami, 1992<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
24 x 24<br />
Blues & Abstract Reality<br />
New York, 1992<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Miles in the Green Room<br />
New York, 1981<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
30 x 44.75<br />
This is How Pres Played,<br />
Tallahassee, Florida, 1991<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Trombone & Silhouette<br />
Germany, 2009<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
17 x 22<br />
Passing the Torch<br />
Santiago, Chile, 1990<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Kwanza<br />
Harlem, 1975<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Smoke and the Lovers<br />
Memphis, 1992<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
20 x 30<br />
Comics<br />
Harlem, 1979<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Warmdaddy in the<br />
House of Swing<br />
New York, 1997<br />
Silver gelatin, 16 x 20<br />
Marcus Roberts<br />
Boston, 1996<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
16 x 20<br />
Stompin the Blues<br />
New Haven, 1996<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
16 x 20<br />
The Bow<br />
Modena, 1996<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
30 x 44<br />
Walter & Willie<br />
New York, 2007<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
49 x 33<br />
Eric & Wynton<br />
New York, 1992<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Solo<br />
New York, 1992<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Randy & Big Black<br />
New York, 1989<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
God’s Trombones<br />
Harlem, 2009<br />
C print<br />
32 x 38.5<br />
Keisha Sings the Blues<br />
New York, 1989<br />
Pigment print<br />
16 x 20<br />
R Malone<br />
New York, 2008<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
17 x 22<br />
New Orleans<br />
Calling the Indians Out<br />
New Orleans, 1978<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Second Line ll<br />
New Orleans, 1979<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
James Booker<br />
Storyville, NO, 1980<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
16 x 20<br />
<strong>Circle</strong> in the Square<br />
Savannah, 2005<br />
C print<br />
32 x 40.5<br />
Baptist Drum<br />
New Orleans, 2006<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
17 x 22<br />
Hammond B<br />
New Orleans, 2007<br />
C print,<br />
33.5 x 40<br />
Katrina’s Houses ll<br />
New Orleans, 2005<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
17 x 22<br />
Grand Marshal<br />
New Orleans, 2001<br />
Silver gelatin,<br />
16 x 20
Second Line<br />
New Orleans, 2001<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Black Indian Spyboy<br />
New Orleans, 1995<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Cuba<br />
Santiago Parade<br />
Santiago, 2003<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
20 x 30<br />
Bass Player<br />
Havana, 2002<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
16 x 20<br />
Blue Car on the Malecon<br />
Havana, 2009<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
17 x 22<br />
Rain Street<br />
Santiago, 2004<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
One Eyed Man<br />
Santiago, 1977<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
16.75 x 24<br />
Santiago Mambo<br />
Santiago, 2002<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
22.5 x 30<br />
Batas<br />
Havana, 2002<br />
Pigment print<br />
20 x 24<br />
Santiago Carnival<br />
Santiago, 2003<br />
Silver gelatin print<br />
16 x 20<br />
Transporting the Tumbao<br />
Santiago, 2004<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Working Out the Changes<br />
Havana, 2010<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
17 x 22<br />
Amadeo Roldán Conservatory<br />
Havana, 2010<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
17 x 22<br />
Africa<br />
Boy & Shadow<br />
Mamfe, Ghana, 2004<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Pentacost Sunday<br />
Mamfe, Ghana, 2000<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Traditional Drums<br />
Akropong, Ghana, 2001<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Abena Pounding Fufu<br />
Mamfe, Ghana, 2000<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Court Drummers & Kids<br />
Akropong, Ghana, 1998<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Three Young Camels<br />
Timbuktu, Mali, 2006<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
30 x 40<br />
Goreé Island Painter<br />
Dakar, Senegal, 2006<br />
C print<br />
30 x 40<br />
Paramount Chief<br />
Akwapim, Ghana, 1998<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Romare Bearden<br />
1979<br />
Jacob Lawrence<br />
1984<br />
Clock of the Earth<br />
Akwapim, Ghana, 1998<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
24 x 24 Ntozake Shange<br />
1993<br />
Call & Echo<br />
Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire<br />
1974<br />
Archival pigment print<br />
20 x 30<br />
Getting the Spirit<br />
Mamfe, Ghana, 1998<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
One Man Band<br />
Akwapim, Ghana,<br />
2001Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Compound of<br />
the Paramount Chief<br />
Akwapim, Ghana, 1997<br />
Silver gelatin<br />
16 x 20<br />
Portraits<br />
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*All measurements of photographs listed are in inches.