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AFRO-AMERICAN ART HISTORY 254                            
JOHN OUTTERBRIDGE

REFERENCE NOTES

1. Joshua Johnston, of Baltimore, Maryland active from 1796 to 1824, is the best known Afro-American painter of this period. He is noted for his portraits of well-to-do Maryland families.

2. Robert S. Duncanson (1817-1872), of Cincinnati, Ohio, was a painter of portraits and landscapes. His murals still adorn the stately Longworth mansion (now the Taft Museum). 

3. Edward M. Bannister (1828-1901), of Providence, Rhode Island. In 1876, one of his works was purchased by a New York collector for $1,500, a considerable sum for any painter of that time. Bannister later became a founding member of Providence Art Club.

4. A petite brown-skinned girl of Negro-Indian extraction, Edmonia Lewis (1843-1890), is the first well-known Afro-American sculptor. She travelled to Rome, where she worked and studied, becoming a favorite of the expatriate art community in Rome.

5. Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937), emerged as an outstanding artist of international reputation, called by many Europeans as the Dean of American painting of his period.

6. European artists discovered African art in the late 19th Century, and its influence and impact was something more than tremendous. Such artists as Picasso, Matisse, Vlaminck, Derain and others made conscious use of its idiom.

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