ARTNOIR'S AFRICAN AMERICAN ART HISTORY 101

HARMON FOUNDATION.

In 1926, the Harmon Foundation organized a series of prize awards for achievement in art, and a year later started its influential series of exhibitions of the work of Negro artists. Five general exhibitions and a number of special smaller ones were held in New York, along with several traveling exhibitions. These exhibitions gave tremendous publicity to works by African American artists which they themselves could not possibly have attracted. It created a aura of influence for the encouragement and recognition of these artists that had never been created before. Alain Locke wrote in his Negro Art; Past and Present (1936), "From a meagre handful of talent registered in 1926...the registry of the foundation now records 381; and a typical list today shows nearly two score of these Negro artists with regular gallery connections and regular inclusions in standard art shows and museum collections."

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