Out of Many: Reframing an American Art Collection

This ground-breaking volume increases our understanding of the dynamism and richness of American art, featuring works that span a century from artist across the United States. Out of Many: Reframing an American Art Collection offers a re-examination of select works from The Phillips Collection, the Howard University Gallery of Art and The David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora. This volume, and its accompanying exhibition, features 75 works of art in various media: paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and mixed-media by a variety of artists, including William H Johnson, Doris Lee, Elisabeth Poe, David Driskell, Ralston Crawford, William Christenberry, Jacob Lawrence, and Romare Bearden to name a few. Arranged into five thematic sections-People, Places, Spaces, Things, and Chronicles-the authors consider why artists have been omitted from our current narratives; and how do we properly contextualize the work of marginalized artists. AUTHORS: Adrienne L. Childs is senior consulting curator, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. Camille Brown is assistant curator, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. SELLING POINTS: . Celebrates previously understudied artists in the Phillips' permanent collection, and in the collections of partner institutions, including the Howard University Gallery of Art and the David C. Driskell Center. . Wide-ranging publication features works in various media, including paintings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and mixed-media, by an outstanding and diverse array of artists. . Broad appeal to a range of readers, including scholarly and general audiences interested in issues of Black history, politics, inclusion, race, gender, and wider issues of representation and identity. . Accessible volume looks at American art through a multiplicity of stories and representations of America's past, present, and future. 113 colour illustrations