Modern Negro art / James A. Porter ; with a new introduction by David C. Driskell

Originally published: New York : Dryden Press, 1943.

Preface to the 1969 edition / James A. Porter -- Preface to the 1943 edition / James A. Porter -- Introduction to the 1992 edition / David C. Driskell -- Introduction to the 1943 edition / Walter Pach -- Negro craftsmen and artists of pre-Civil War days -- Freemen as artists : the pioneers -- Transition to freedom -- The fourth generation : new values -- At the turn of the century -- The new Negro Movement -- The new horizons of painting -- The new sculpture -- Naive and popular painting and sculpture -- Progress in the graphic arts -- Memorabilia of the early negro artist

Analyzes the developments in African American painting and sculpture from pre-Civil War days to World War II.