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Talent breaks bias bond

AS NEGROES are demanding their full share of all areas of American life, artists of color are pressing for unrestricted admission to the nation's cultural mainstream with an unprecedented outpouring of creative skill. In the vanguard of the drive are those painters and sculptors whose artistry, despite discrimination, attained national-or even international-acclaim.

Though still largely preoccupied with racial protest themes-an inevitable by-product of segregation-they have rejected the limiting confines of "primitive" art once reserved for them by benevolent whites. Instead, America's leading Negro artists (a representative sample of whom was selected by veteran artist Hale Woodruff for these pages) have demonstrated their mastery of the full range of artistic expression, from the conventional representational to the ultra modern abstract.

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Hale Woodruff (left), leading pioneer painter-art educator, sparked famed "Atlanta School" at Atlanta University before joining N. Y. U. faculty in 1946.

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Charles Alston (above), versatile muralist, painter, sculptor and art teacher of national distinction, stands tall among highest-ranked American Negro artists.

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