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2. "The Art of the Negro."

Executed for the Trevor Arnett Library of Atlanta University in 1950, the native arts of tribal Africa are treated in a series of six mural panels. Each panel deals with some important aspect of African art.

The first shows the various types, and forms of the arts such as fetishism, the ceremonial mask, costumes, cave painting, and the decorative arts.

The second panel portrays, symbolically, the art and cultural influences that took place between the African and other Mediterranean peoples of antiquity. The Egyptians, Romans and greeks drew broadly from many African art styles and incorporated them into their own art expression. The native African also learned from these cultures, and many evidences of this fact are found in some of his art.

[[strikethrough]] With [[/strikethrough]] The coming of the latter-day European to the African continent