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!

Black Artists in America: From the Great Depression to Civil Rights
​$34.99
​Exploring how artists at midcentury addressed the social issues of their day—from Jacob Lawrence to Elizabeth Catlett, Rose Piper to Charles White.
Black Artists in America: From Civil Rights to the Bicentennial
​$39.99
Exploring the artistry of Black Americans, featuring work from the 1950s to the 1970s that responded to the cultural, political, and social concerns of the era.
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
$34.99
A groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernism
BLK ART by Zaria Ware
The Audacious Legacy Of Black Artists And Models In Western Art
$29.99 
​This 2024 NAACP Image Award nominated book would serve as an exciting way to highlight many talented black artists and creatives who have perfected their craft without fair recognition in the art world. ​
Kehinde Wiley: Black Light
$74.99
Kehinde Wiley painted President Obama's official portrait and this is an early 56 page book from him documenting his extraordinary talents.
Black American Portraits
$50.00
A 222 page celebratory visual chronicle of the many ways in which Black Americans have used portraiture to envision themselves
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.
Amy Sherald
American Subline
45.00
​Bringing together nearly all of her artwork to date, this lavishly illustrated volume situates the work of Amy Sherald (b. 1973) within the context of American realist and figurative painting. Encompassing the full arc of her career, from her poetic early works to the distinctive figure paintings and portraits that have become her hallmark, Amy Sherald: American Sublime unfolds her method of selecting individuals she meets on the street and using facial expression, body language, and clothing choices to create paintings that transcend portraiture and expand the canon of American art
The New Brownies Book
A Love Letter to Black Families
208 Pages
​29.99
NAACP Image Award and Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) Literary Award Winner

            Juxtaposition: The Art of Karen Y. Buster 
                             50.00
Coffee Table Book with introduction by Larry Poncho Brown, forward by Dennis L. Forbes and special message from Cynthia M. A. Butler-McIntyre, 24th National President of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. 186 pages of publish work and art journey told by the artist, Karen Y. Buster.
Greatest of All Time. A Tribute to Muhammad Ali
$ 175
Embark on an extraordinary journey through the life of Muhammad Ali. GREATEST OF ALL TIME: A TRIBUTE TO MUHAMMAD ALI is a book with the power, courage, depth, creativity, and dazzling energy of its extraordinary subject. Slimmed down from the heavyweight Collector’s Edition, this bantamweight edition is smaller in size, but pulls no punches on its expertise, passion, and insight on The Champ.

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Revelations
​Art from the African American South
$40
This gorgeous volume explores 62 extraordinary works by 22 contemporary African American artists, revealing a crucial chapter in the story of American art.
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Alma W Thomas
​Everything Is Beautiful
$60
This insightful reassessment of Thomas’s life and work reveals her complex and deliberate artistic existence before, during, and after the years of commercial and critical success, and describes how her innovative palette and loose application of paint grew out of a long study of color theory.
Life Doesn't Frighten Me
Maya Angelou & Jean Michel Basquiat
$19.99
The glorious picture book Life Doesn’t Frighten Me features the work of two legendary artists—poet Maya Angelou and artist Jean Michel Basquiat—“a powerful exploration of emotion and its expression through the careful blend of words and art”

Books are art too!