Modern Negro art : with eighty-five halftone plates

This is the earliest comprehensive study of African American art by educator, writer, and artist James Porter. A foundational text on African American art history, Porter placed African American artists within the framework of American art, and he was the first to document the important contributions the artists made to the history of American art. Modern Negro Art was originally published in 1943 and later reissued in 1969 with a new introduction by David C. Driskell. Subsequent editions have followed thereafter, including in the early 1990s by Howard University Press (the Moorland-Springarn series) and most recently, an edition published by Martino Fine Books, in 2020.