More Art and History Links

Other Resources on Artists

• AskArt.com is a searchable database of more than 20,000 artists. The information available includes brief profiles, book and periodical references, dealer and museum connections, image galleries, and even auction results.
  
  
• Southern Gate: African American Paintings from the National Museum of American Art chronicles a particular exhibit at Duke University, but also offers links to many other resources.
  
  
• W.P.A.-New Deal Art During the Great Depression is a personal project to gather profiles and stories connected to the government-sponsored art projects of the Depression years.

African-American History Resources

• The Anacostia Community Museum—the Smithsonian Institution’s museum of African American history and culture.
  
  
• The AfricanAmericans.com web site is a thoroughly annotated gateway to a wealth of other resources.
  
  
• Digital Librarian: African Americans is a librarian’s choice of the best of the web on black history and culture.
  
  
• A Gateway to African American History from 1900 to 1940 is from the North Kenwood/Oakland Charter School.

The Harmon Foundation

• Breaking Racial Barriers: African Americans in the Harmon Foundation Collection, from the National Portrait Gallery, displays many of the portraits of influential African Americans that were included in a ground-breaking 1944 Harmon Foundation exhibit and includes biographical profiles of these black leaders from various fields.
  
  
• Contemporary African Art from the Harmon Foundation includes links to slides and photos of artworks from the National Archives and Records Administration.