Lois Mailou Jones a life in color by Chris Chapman

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author

Chapman, Chris Dr

Author

Jones, Lois Mailou

Contents

Artistic Beginnings -- "Thomas Vreeland Jones: First African American graduate of Suffolk Law Schoo -- Carolyn Dorinda Adams Jones: Mother of Lois Mailou Jones -- Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller: Sculptor, Studied in Paris with Auguste Rodin 1899 -- Harry T. Burleigh: Composer, Known for Spirituals -- Further Trainin -- Jean F. Millet: Master Nineteenth-Century French Artist -- Charlotte Hawkins Brown: Educator, Founded Palmer Memorial Institute -- James V Herring: Founded Howard University Art Department -- Washington, D.C. -- Dr Carter G. Woodson: Historian and Publisher -- Gertrude Parthenia McBrown: Writer and Poet -- Robert Todd Duncan- First African American to Sing with NYC Opera -- Lucy D. Slowe: First Dean of Women at Howard University -- Arthur Schomburg- Historian and Archivist -- Paris -- Albert Smith -First African American to Study at the National Academy of Design -- C(line Tabary: Integrated Corcoran Gallery of Art for Lois in 1941 mtile Bernard -French painter and Art Critic -- J.M.W. Turner: Master British Artist -- Vincent van Gogh -Master Dutch Artist -- Mordecai W. Johnson: First Permanent African American President of Howard -- University -- Langston Hughes Most Original African American Poet

Josephine Baker- First African American Femiale Entertainer to Break through Prejudice in Europe and the United States -- Back to America and the Locke Period -- Madame Lillian Evanti: Founder of Negro Opera Company 1942 -- Leigh Whipper: Founder of Negro Actors Guild -- Max Robinson: First African American Television News Anchor -- Dr. Alai Locke: First African American Rhodes Scholar at Oxford -- Sue Bailey Thurman: First African American to Meet Mahatma Gandhi -- Alma W. Thomas: First Graduate of Howard University Fine Arts Program -- Alonzo Aden: Cofounder of an Art Gallery with No Racial Barriers -- Doris Dandridge: First African American to Perform with the Boston Pops -- Pietro Lazzari: Only Artist to Do a Life Sculpture of Pope Paul -- e Corbusier: Most Influential Architect of the Twentieth Century hapter 6 Le Changes and the Haiti Period -- Louis Vergniaud Pierre-Noe: Husband, Won Gold Medal for Stamp Design -- Paul E. Magloire: President of Haiti -- Toussaint L'Ouverture: Led Haiti to Freedom -- Leopold Sedar Senghor: President of Senegal -- Kwame Nkrumah- President of Ghana -- Nannie Helen Burroughs: Founded National Trade School for Women 1909 -- William V S. Tubman: President of Liberia

Zora Neale Hurston: Most Prolific Writer in America from 1930 to 1960 -- Katherine Dunham: Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Arts -- Capter 7 More Pioneering Americans -- Frederick Douglass: Advisor to Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War -- Daniel Hale Williams, M.D.: First American to Perform a Successful Heart -- Surgery -- Dr. George Washington Carver: Winner of Roosevelt Medal 1942 -- Phyllis Wheatley: First African American to Publish a Book of Poetry -- Soj rrner Truth -Published Memoirs in 1850 -- Sterling Allen Brown: Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia 1984 -- Hallie Quinn Brown: Elocutionist and Lecturer -- Mary McLeod Bethune: Advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt -- Matthew Henson- First African American to Reach the North Pole -- Eusebia Cusme: Won Mexican Version of the Oscar -- Marian Anderson: First African American at the Metropolitan Opera -- Althea Gibson: First African American to Win Wimbledon -- Edward Brooke III: First Elected African American Senator -- Jessye Norman: Youngest Recipient of the United States Kennedy Center Honor -- Dorothy West: Haiem Renaissance Writer, Published Her First Story in 1926 hater 8 "At 90, Iarrived" -- Danny Glover -Chairman of TransAfrica Forum -- James Earl Jones and Richard Harris: Cry, the Beloved Country -- Maya Angelou: African American Poet and Actress

2007

Type

Biography

Biographies

Physical description

x, 124 pages illustrations (some color) 28 cm

Place

United States

États-Unis

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Painters

African American painters

Peintres

Peintres noirs américains

Record ID

siris_sil_1158442

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