THE NEGRO AND ART

Year Published: 1933

Description: ART FILM: On the Harmon Foundation's fifth exhibition of sculpture, paintings and photography by Negro artists at the Art Center, New York City. Guests tour the gallery. Dr. Samuel McCune Lindsay, Columbia University, presides at awards ceremony. Speakers include architect Harvey Wiley Corbett and YMCA executive Channing Tobias. William E. Harmon's daughter, Helen Griffiths Harmon, awards prizes to artists Palmer Hayden, James A. Porter, Earle Wilton Richardson and James Lesesne Wells; to photographic artist James Latimer Allen and sculptor William Ellisworth Artis. Representatives of Harmon Foundation include Mrs. William E. Harmon, Evelyn S. Brown and Mary Beattie Brady. Other guests include Dr. George E. Haynes; Dr. Thomas Else Jones, President, Fisk University; Dr. Herbert Adolphus Miller, Bryn Mawr; Dr. Robert Russa Moton, President, Tuskegee Institute; Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones, Phelps Stokes Fund; Arthur Howe, President, Hampton Institute; and Alon Bement, National Alliance of Art and Industry. Dr. Alain Locke, Howard University, with sculptor Richmond Barthe. Drawings and sculpture by Sargent Johnson displayed, but artist is not seen.