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A. Well, you mentioned Wilmer Jennings - he's now a very successful jewelry designer in Providence, Rhode Island. Robert Neal went to Dayton, Ohio over 20 years ago and I've lost contact with him.  Lamar Weaver is teaching art in Tyler, Texas. William Hayden is teaching art in Detroit.  Albert Wells is in Chicago now - he's teaching, too. Vernon Winslow, from Chicago, is now in New Orleans teavhing, I believe at Dillard and Tulane. John Howard is head of the department at Arkansas A.M. & N. College. Hayward Oubre' was also with us, for a while, in Atlanta. 

Q. Who do you consider the most representative black artists of the twenties or thirties or both. 

A. I think that Aaron Douglas - this is to answer very quickly - was perhaps the best known painter. But in the late thirties Jacob Lawrence came into vogue very rapidly and even up to today he would appear to be the best known or most successful black artists in this country. 

Q. But, that's really in terms of mass acceptance isn't it?

A. Well, his acceptance has been more "official" than broad. In other words, he has been brought and put into museums, galleries collections, and colleges throughout the country.  He is the most widely "accepted" black artist by the so-called art community than anyone I know of. Now, this is important, Ollie Harrington, was popular with the masses. Let me put it this was, during those years the masses of black people were not looking at much of any kind of art. So perhaps we can only gauge recognition on the basis of establishment acceptance. 

Q. I notice that most books, particularly the Dover books and even the Porter book