Powell, Richard J.

Personal Information

  • Born in 1953

Here are some other works by the author:

Nonfiction
• From the Potomac to the Anacostia, Washington Project for the Arts, 1989
• African-American Artists, 1880-1987 (with Guy McElroy and Sharon F. Patton, University of Washington Press, 1989
• Blues Aesthetic, Washington Project for the Arts, 1989
• Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson, Rizzoli Publishers, 1991
• Jacob Lawrence, Rizzoli, 1992
• Rhapsodies in Black, University of California Press, 1997
• Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century, Thames & Hudson, 1997
• To Conserve a Legacy (with Jock Reynolds), MIT Press, 1999
• Black Art: A Cultural History (1st edition), Thames & Hudson, 2002
• Circle Dance, University Press of Mississippi, 2005
• Conjuring Bearden, Duke University Press, 2006
• Cutting a Figure, University of Chicago Press, 2008
• Obama Portraits (with Taína Caragol, Dorothy Moss, and Kim Sajet), Princeton University Press, 2020
• Black Art: A Cultural History (2nd edition), Thames & Hudson, 2021

N.C. Locations Associated with Powell, Richard J.

Resided in:
Durham (County)
Taught at:
Duke University