Overdue Recognition Art Gallery - African American Art, Books

BOOKS

As part of the Galleries mission to educate the community about African American Art we have included educational books about  African American Artist and the importance of collecting African American Art!
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Poncho Retrospective
$60.00
A beautifully produced 256 page, hardbound cover book, featuring 300+ published works by renowned artist Larry Poncho Brown to celebrate 40 years in the art world.Experience the artists journey in his own words and learn the back story behind his success as a full time artist in America.
Jean-Micheal Basquiat:King Pleasure 
$55.00
​Featuring over 200 never-before-seen and rarely shown paintings, drawings, ephemera(including notes, family photos, and keepsakes), and artifacts collected by the artist himself, this volume tells the story of Basquiat from an intimate perspective.   ​
Transcendence
30.00
Transcendence is the long-awaited, career-spanning monograph of American landscape painter Richard Mayhew.For over half a century, Richard Mayhew has been reinventing the genre of landscape painting. His luminous work evokes not only physical vistas but also emotions, sounds, and the pure experience of color.
My Authentic Self
65.00
​ Celebrated visual artist and Gullah cultural ambassador Leroy Campbell embraces his African roots and the journey to self discovery with the debut of his first coffee table book.
Kerry James Marshall: Mastery
65.00
The definitive monograph on contemporary African American painter Kerry James Marshall, accompanying a major traveling retrospective. This long-awaited volume celebrates the work of Kerry James Marshall, one of America’s greatest living painters
Hail the Dark Lioness
Zanele Muholi
85.00
Hail The Dark Lioness is a long awaited monograph from one of the most powerful visual activist of our time. The book features over ninety of Muholi evocative self portraits.
HIP HOP Cultural Odyssey
175.00

The Ultimate  coffee-table book created for all generations of fans. This colossal 420 page leather-bound collection includes hundreds
of poster-sized photographs, exclusive testimonials, and 250 original essays and profiles profiling Icons
who changed the game.
Hebru Brantley
55.00
The first book on Chicago-born Hebru Brantley, the preeminent African American pop artist of his generation, whose work is hot and in demand in the art world, the fashion world, street style, and the music world.
The New Brownies Book
A Love Letter to Black Families
​40.00
Hand Signed by Charly Palmer and Karida L. Brown
NAACP Image Award and Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) Literary Award Winner