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We were all invited to show and I sent my woodcuts on lynching. Charles White sent a protest drawing.(Woodruffs' "By Parties Unknown" and "Giddays", Whites' There were no Crops this Year"). There was very little publicity about it - I'm afraid it was rather inconsequential. 

Q. How about the Baltimore Museum show of 1939?

A. There have been a number of museum and regional shows throughout such as the Albany Museum Show, of 1940 and others, but these were attempts, well-intentioned, but nothing came out of them, really. 

Q. Well, when you didn't exhibit in these shows, where did you show?

A. (Laugh) There were very few opportunities for showing. 

Q. You started a series of annual exhibitions in Atlanta, didn't you?

A: Yes. That was in the early forties. We started that exhibit on a shoestring because there was a great need for black artists to have exhibitions. I felt that it would offer encouragement to young black artists by giving them public recognition and prizes for their efforts. We got some money from the University and the first year we had some thirty or forty artists - some good, mostly bad. Some of the good ones came on like John Wilson of Boston, Calvin Burnett - some good artists showed there and it got wide publicity.  The publicity caught the eye of a young Boston millionaire. He read about it, was interested and came down to Atlanta to look me up. He indicated that he liked the idea and that he wanted to offer some prizes.  They had purchased prizes up to thirty thousand dollars and this, of course, attracted the attention of artists from everywhere. By that time I was leaving Atlanta -