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OverviewFelrath Hines (1913–1993), the first African American man to become a professional conservator for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, was born and raised in the segregated Midwest. Leaving their home in the South, Hines's parents migrated to Indianapolis with hopes for a better life. While growing up, Hines was encouraged by his seamstress mother to pursue his early passion for art by taking Saturday classes at Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis. He moved to Chicago in 1937, where he attended the Art Institute of Chicago in pursuit of his dreams. The Life and Art of Felrath Hines: From Dark to Light chronicles the life of this exceptional artist who overcame numerous obstacles throughout his career and refused to be pigeonholed because of his race. Author Rachel Berenson Perry tracks Hines's determination and success as a contemporary artist on his own terms. She explores Hines's life in New York City in the 1950s and 60s, where he created a close friendship with jazz musician Billy Strayhorn and participated in the African American Spiral Group of New York and the equal rights movement. Hines's relationship with Georgia O'Keeffe, as her private paintings restorer, and a lifetime of creating increasingly esteemed Modernist artwork, all tell the story of one man's remarkable journey in 20th-century America. Featuring exquisite color photographs, The Life and Art of Felrath Hines explores the artist's life, work, and significance as an artist and as an art conservator. -- Indiana University Press Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rachel Berenson Perry , Floyd Coleman , Julie McGee , Jennifer McComasPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press ISBN: 9780253037312ISBN 10: 025303731 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 01 January 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Foreword Acknowledgments A Sense of Wonderment: The Abstract Paintings of Felrath Hines by Jennifer McComas 1. Pivotal Decision: New York City, 1946-1959 2. Back to Beginning: Indianapolis, 1913-1937 3. Getting the Spark: Chicago, 1937-1946 4. Becoming a Conservator: New York City, 1960-1965 5. Spiral and ""Black Art"": New York City, 1965-1971 6. Coming into His Own: Chief Conservator and Working Artist, Washington, D.C., 1972-1980 7. Full Time Painter: Washington, D.C., 1980-1993 8. Life After Death: 1993-2017 Epilogue: Perspectives on Felrath Hines by Floyd Coleman with Julie L. McGee Plates Appendix 1: Chronology Appendix 2: Felrath Hines CV Index -- Indiana University Press"ReviewsAuthor InformationFloyd Coleman is coauthor of Basic Design: Systems, Elements, Applications (Prentice Hall, 1984) and contributing author to Walls of Heritage Walls of Pride: African American Murals (Pomegranate, 2000). He is also professor emeritus, Department of Art, Howard University, Washington, DC Jennifer McComas, PhD, is the curator of European and American Art at the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington. A scholar of modern art, she is the author of the exhibition catalog Pioneers and Exiles: German Expressionism at the Indiana University Art Museum (IU Art Museum, 2012) and a contributor to the anthology Re-envisioning the Contemporary Art Canon: Perspectives in a Global World (Routledge, 2017). Julie L. McGee is associate professor of black American studies and art history, and associate director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center at the University of Delaware. She has written and lectured extensively on African American art and contemporary art in South Africa, and has curated exhibitions for the David C. Driskell Center, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Maine, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey and Guga S'Thebe Community Arts Centre in Langa (Cape Town), South Africa. With Vuyile C. Voyiya, McGee coproduced the documentary film The Luggage is Still Labeled: Blackness in South African Art. In 2011–12 she held the Dorothy Kayser Hohenberg Chair of Excellence in Art History at the University of Memphis. -- Indiana University Press Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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