LOIS MAILOU JONES & GERTRUDE PARTHENIA McBROWN SIGNED BOOKS AFRICAN AMERICAN ART

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These two books came from a bookstore I frequented for many years and closed down. I was able to purchase the entire inventory, of which these were in storage. Several years back I sold on eBay Miss Jones collection of books to the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, Where they had an exposition on her artwork of which the 28 books I sold were part of the show.
Miss Jones book is titled art in the elementary school by Margaret Matthias and is dated 1929. There are a few notes inside the cover in the book itself does show somewhere so please see the pictures.
The book signed by Miss McBrown is actually signed once in ink and once in pencil and has notes inside the front cover as well as on the back cover with an additional autograph and also occasionally inside the pages. This book also shows where to the cover and occasionally inside with the pages.
from Wikipedia...
Loïs Mailou
Jones
(November 3, 1905 – June 9, 1998)
[1]
was an influential artist and teacher
during her seven-decade career. Jones was one of the most notable figures to
attain fame for her art while living as a black expatriate in Paris during the
1930s and 1940s.
[2]
Her career began in textile design before she decided to focus on
fine arts. Jones looked towards Africa and the Caribbean and her experiences in
life when painting. As a result, her subjects were some of the first paintings
by an African-American artist to extend beyond the realm of portraiture. Jones
was influenced by the
Harlem
Renaissance
movement and her countless
international trips. Lois Mailou Jones' career was enduring and complex. Her
work in designs, paintings, illustrations, and academia made her an exceptional
artist who continues to receive national attention and research.
Gertrude P.
McBrown
(1898-1989) was an American poet,
playwright, educator, actress, and stage director. Although her career lasted
well beyond the 1930s, she is sometimes grouped with writers of the
Harlem Renaissance
.
After receiving her M.Ed., McBrown moved to North Carolina,
where she headed the drama department at Palmer Memorial Institute under
the leadership of Charlotte Hawkins Brown. While at Palmer, McBrown's
production of George V. Hobart's
Experience
earned a glowing
review in
Crisis
magazine (August 1929). She then taught
dramatic arts at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, taking
the place of Richard B. Harrison, who had left to take a lead role in a
Broadway production.
[1]
In the 1930s she moved to Washington, D.C., where she
became prominent in literary and dramatic circles. She directed the Southeast
Children's Theatre, the Bronze Masque of Freedmen's Training School, and the
dramatic club of the Lambda Rho Society of the Asbury Methodist Episcopal
Church. She worked as a speech teacher at the Washington Conservatory of
Music, and as an English teacher at Frelinghuysen University, where
university founder Anna Julia Cooper was serving as president.
McBrown also opened her own studio.
[1]
While in Washington she became increasingly interested in
children's poetry and theater. In 1935 she published her first book of
poetry,
The Picture-Poetry Book
, illustrated by Lois Mailou
Jones. (McBrown and Jones collaborated on other occasions; for example,
McBrown's poem, "Fire-Flies," appears with an illustration by Jones
in the
Saturday Evening Quill
.)
[2][3]
McBrown's
poetry (both children's poetry and poetry for adults) was published in various
magazines and literary journals, including
Opportunity
,
Popular
Educator
,
International Poetry Magazine
,
Black Opals
,
Negro
Women's World
, and
Phylon
.
[4]
She
became managing editor of
Parent-Teacher Magazine
, and wrote feature
stories for the Associated Negro Press.
[5]
McBrown served for many years on the board of the
Negro
History Bulletin
, edited by Carter G. Woodson. The
Bulletin
published
her first two plays, both with historical themes.
Bought With Cookies
(1949)
tells the story of a young Frederick Douglass;
The Birthday
Surprise
(1953) is about Paul Laurence Dunbar.
[5]
She earned national recognition for her one-woman shows, in
which she often impersonated African-American heroines. She was also a noted
storyteller, often donning resplendent African costumes to entertain children
with tales from Africa. In the 1950s, McBrown moved to New York City to direct
drama groups and teach speech at the Carnegie Hall Studio. She was a
co-founder of the Carter G. Woodson Memorial Research Collection in the Jamaica branch
of the Queens Library. She also wrote a column, "Proud
Heritage," for her neighborhood newspaper,
Community Chatter
.
[5]
She traveled the world, continuing her education and sharing her
knowledge with others. She studied at the Conservatoire Nationale de Musique et
d'Art and took courses in drama and literature at the Institut Britannique in
Paris. At the Royal Empire Society and the Royal Academy of
Dramatic Art in London, she researched African folklore and culture. While
traveling in Africa, she delighted audiences with performances of her stories.
During the final years of her life, severe arthritis forced her to slow down.
[5]
In 1970 she received Carter G. Woodson award from
the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.
[6]
She
died in 1989.
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