Illustrations for The Art of History: African American Women Artists Engage the Past by Lisa Gail Collins


1. Artist unknown, La belle Hottentote, date unknown

2. Nicolas Huet le Jeune, Saartjie Baartman, 1815

3. Léon de Wailly, Saartjie Baartman, 1815

4. First page of Georges Cuvier's dissection report on the "Vénus Hottentotte," Mémoires du Muséum d'histoire naturelle, 1817

5. Title page of Types of Mankind, 1857

6. J. T. Zealy, "Jack (driver), Guinea. Plantation of B. F. Taylor, Columbia, S.C.," 1850

7. J. T. Zealy, "Drana, country born, daughter of Jack, Guinea. Plantation of B. F. Taylor, Columbia, S.C.," 1850

8. Renée Green, Seen from Anatomies of Escape, 1990

9. Carla Williams, Untitled from How to Read Character, 1990-1991

10. Carla Williams, Untitled from How to Read Character, 1990-1991

11. Lorna Simpson, Three Seated Figures, 1989

12. Wedgwood cameo, Am I Not a Man and a Brother?, nineteenth century

13. Token, Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?, 1838

14. Jules-Robert Auguste, Les Amies, ca. 1820-1830

15. Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863

16. Giacomo Ginotti, Abolition of Slavery, 1877

17. Frank Buchser, Black Girl in a Stream, ca. 1867-1870

18. Edmonia Lewis, Forever Free, 1867

19. Postcard, Josephine Baker, ca. 1920s

20. Jean Isy de Botton, Portrait of Josephine Baker, 1929

21. Emma Amos, Creatures of the Night, 1985

22. Alison Saar, Si j'étais blanc, 1981

23. Kongo peoples, nkisi figure, date unknown

24. Alison Saar, Untitled from Crossroads, 1989

25. Kongo peoples, nkisi nkondi figure, ca. 1875-1900

26. Renée Stout, Fetish #2, 1988

27. Map of the Sea Islands

28. Leigh Richmond Miner, Alfred Graham, 1909

29. Winold Reiss, Young Basketmaker, 1927

30. Title page of Roll, Jordan, Roll, 1933

31. Doris Ulmann, Portrait of Woman with Basket on Her Head, ca. 1929-1930

32. Title page of Drums and Shadows, 1940

33. Title page of The Myth of the Negro Past, 1941

34. Eldzier Cortor, Sea of Time, 1945

35. Title page of Daufuskie Island by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, 1982

36. Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, The Old Prayer House before Hurricane David, from Daufuskie Island, 1979

37. Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Emily's Son at Nursery School during Nap Time, from Daufuskie Island, 1980

38. Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, The Waving Girl, from Daufuskie Island, 1979

39. Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, Miss Mary in Her Kitchen, from Daufuskie Island, 1979

40. Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (WENT LOOKING FOR AFRICA) from Sea Islands Series, 1992

41. Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (EBO LANDING) from Sea Islands Series, 1992

42. Beverly Buchanan, St. Simons, 1989

43. Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Rice, Rattlesnakes, and Rainwater, 1997

44. Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Rice, Rattlesnakes, and Rainwater, detail, 1997

45. Martha Jackson-Jarvis, Rice, Rattlesnakes, and Rainwater, detail, 1997

46. Leigh Richmond Miner, Baby Day Mothers, ca. 1909

47. James VanDerZee, Future Expectations, 1926

48. Gordon Parks, American Gothic, 1942

49. Gordon Parks, Children with Doll, 1942

50. Title page of The Sweet Flypaper of Life, 1955

51. Title page from Clarissa Sligh, Reading Dick and Jane with Me, 1989

52. Page from The New We Look and See, 1956

53. Page from The New We Look and See, 1956

54. Clarissa Sligh, page from Reading Dick and Jane with Me, 1989

55. Clarissa Sligh, page from Reading Dick and Jane with Me, 1989

56. Clarissa Sligh, two pages from Reading Dick and Jane with Me, 1989

57. Film still from Daughters of the Dust, 1991

58. Film still from Daughters of the Dust, 1991