MS01.01.03.B02.F23.083

Harmon Foundation
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The exhibition of 1928 was considered by many to be a major
breakthrough for Black visual artists. With Brady's contacts and those of the officers who composed the Council of Churches roster, twenty-one works of art were
sold including two [strike: works] to the J.B. Speed Museum in Louisville,
Kentucky. Brady considered it an important feat to sell works
by Black artists to a Southern museum.

For seven months following the close of the 1928 exhibition at
the International House, a traveling exhibition of 64 works visited
eleven cities and was displayed in art institutions, museums and on
university campuses. Over 3,000 people - Black and white - viewed
the exhibit in Atlanta, Georgia with over 8,000 people attending the
show at the National Museum of Art in Washington, D. C.
"The Harmon Foundation and the Commission on the Church
and Race Relations & the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ
in America, placed this exhibit before the public in the hope of
accomplishing three things: creating a wider interest in the work of
the Negro artist as a contribution to American culture; stimulating
him to aim for the highest standards of achievement, and encouraging
the general public in the purchase of his work, with the eventual
purpose in view of helping the American Negro to a sounder and more
satisfactory economic position in art." 24 The foundation
informed the visitors to the exhibition of its purpose in assemblying
the works. It stated:

In 1929, the Harmon Foundation exhibition consisted of
paintings, among others, by Aaron Douglas, William H. Johnson, Palmer
Hayden, James Porter, Archibald Motley, Hale Woodruff, Laura Wheeler
Waring and sculptures by Sargent Johnson, Agusta Savage and Nancy

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