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Vol. 1, No. 3: Spring 1995

Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson by Richard J. Powell (Review)

by Jessie Poesch

National Museum of American Art, 1991

The last twenty years or so have seen a growing number of substantial studies devoted to African American art, necessary since so much of this work has been virtually ignored in earlier surveys of American art. Richard Powell’s study of the life and work of William H. Johnson is one of these. It is well written, thoroughly documented, and beautifully illustrated. His interpretations of individual paintings are particularly fine.

This article appears as an abstract above, the complete article can be accessed in Project Muse
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