Reminiscences of Lois Mailou Jones : oral history, 1977.

Scope and Contents

Family background; student at Boston High School of Practical Arts; summers at Martha's Vineyard; student at Academie Julian, Paris, 1937-1938; racial prejudice against black artists; influence of African art; marriage to Vergniaud Pierre-Noel, 1953; trips to Africa photographing art and meeting artists; impressions of Emile Bernard, Afewerk Tekle

Subjects

• African American art--African influences.
• African American art--European influences.
• African American art.
• African American artists--Interviews.
• Danley, Theresa B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Jones, Lois Mailou.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Race relations.

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