Research Guides: Black Artistry and the Archive: Artstor

Artstor

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Features images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. It is a comprehensive image resource available for educational and scholarly use, with many rare and important collections available nowhere else.

Artstor: Creating an Account

"Artstor: Creating an Account," recorded November 2020, 2 minutes.

Collections of African-American Art in Artstor

The links below will connect you with specific collections found in Artstor. You will need to login to your Artstor account in order to access these collections. Instructions on creating an Artstor account are provided below.

This is just a small percentage of the art available through Artstor. It is also recommended that you search in Artstor by artist name.

Amistad Research Center (Tulane University)
Mott-Warsh Collection
Migration Series by Jacob Lawrence
Executed in 1940–1941, this 60-panel cycle documents the migration of African-Americans from the impoverished rural South to the industrial cities of the North and Midwest starting in World War I. In 1942, the series was split between two institutions, with The Phillips Collection acquiring the odd-numbered panels and The Museum of Modern Art purchasing the even-numbered works. The entire series is reunited in Artstor
Romare Bearden
African and African-American Studies Collection

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Collections of African-American Art in Artstor