Research Catalog

Title

Instill & inspire : the John & Vivian Hewitt collection of African-American art / text by Grace C. Stanislaus ; foreword by Jonathan Green.

Author

Stanislaus, Grace C.

Publication

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

Green, Jonathan, 1939-

Description

xiv, 152 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm

Summary

"The John and Vivian Hewitt Collection of African-American Art represents works that celebrate the expression and passion of twenty artists, including Romare Bearden, Margaret Burroughs, Jonathan Green, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, Ann Tanksley, and Henry Ossawa Tanner. This book contains all fifty-eight works from the collection, exquisitely reproduced in full color. Grace C. Stanislaus provides a text on the significance of the collection that is supplemented by interviews with Vivian Hewitt, David Taylor of the Gantt Center, art collectors Harmon and Harriett Kelley, and Nancy Washington"--

Alternative Title

Instill and inspire

Subject

• Hewitt, John H., 1924-2000 > Art collections > Catalogs
• Hewitt, Vivian D. > Art collections > Catalogs
• Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture > Catalogs
• African American art > Catalogs
• Art > Private collections > North Carolina > Charlotte > Catalogs
• ART > American > African American

Contents

Foreword : The Social and Cultural Consciousness of Collecting and Exhibiting African American Visual Art / by Jonathan Green -- Acknowledgments -- A Historical Narrative of African American Patronage of the Arts through the Lens of the John and Vivian Hewitt Collection / by Grace C. Stanislaus -- The John and Vivian Hewitt Collection of African American Art -- A Passion for Collecting : The John and Vivian Hewitt Story -- Collectors' Perspectives. Dr. Walter O. and Mrs. Linda Evans -- Dr. Harmon and Mrs. Harriet Kelley -- Nancy Washington -- The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture and the John and Vivian Hewitt Collection of African American Art / by David R. Taylor.

Call Number

Sc F 17-79

ISBN

• 9780822945048
• 0822945045

LCCN

2017014500

OCLC

960712161

Author

Stanislaus, Grace C., author.

Title

Instill & inspire : the John & Vivian Hewitt collection of African-American art / text by Grace C. Stanislaus ; foreword by Jonathan Green.

Publisher

Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Green, Jonathan, 1939- writer of introductory text.

Research Call Number

Sc F 17-79