Date: Fri 10-Sep-1999

Publication: Ant

Author: MARYG

Quick Words:

African-American-art-Henry

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African American Art In Chicago 1900-1950 Opens September 17 At Robert Henry

Fine Art

(with 1 cut)

CHICAGO, ILL. -- Robert Henry Adams Fine Art is pleased to present the first

ever survey exhibition in a gallery of works by African American artists

active in Chicago during the first half of the Twentieth Century. "African

American Art in Chicago, 1900-1950" opens Friday, September 17 and will run

through October 30.

Featured in the exhibition are works by nationally known artists such as

Archibald J. Motley, Jr, William Edouard Scott, Elizabeth Catlett and Charles

White, as well as works by recently rediscovered and under-represented

artists.

The exhibition showcases the importance of early African American artists to

Chicago's thriving art community and emphasizes the seminal role played by the

South Side Community Art Center in supporting and promoting the work.

Since 1980, Robert Henry Adams Fine Art has specialized in American works from

the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. Visitors to the gallery

view American Impressionist and Modern paintings, drawings and sculpture in a

two story space in the heart of Chicago's gallery district.

Adams Fine Arts is located at 715 North Franklin Street. For more information,

call 312/642-8700.