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Gray Ward . . . Historian Benjamin<br />
Quarles' Black Abolitionists (Oxford<br />
U . Press) has been issued in a paperback<br />
edition ($1 .95 ) . . Earl<br />
Anthony's Picking Up The .Gun:<br />
Report on the Black Panthers (Dial,<br />
$4.95 ) is the first black-authored<br />
book on the besieged Panthers . Mr .<br />
The Art Scene : The Studio Museum<br />
of Harlem's exhibition of traditional<br />
African masks, figures, musical instruments,<br />
jewelry, textiles and<br />
artifacts (also with some Africainfluenced<br />
Western art) will remain<br />
on view through April 19 . The exhibition<br />
was organized with the<br />
cooperation of the Philadelphia Museum<br />
of Art . . . Over in Brooklyn,<br />
the Community Art Gallery faces a<br />
bleak future if its director, Henri<br />
Ghent, fails in his efforts to raise<br />
funds . The gallery is located in the<br />
Brooklyn Museum but is not included<br />
in the museum's annual budget. Since<br />
its establishment two years ago: the<br />
gallery has served non-professional<br />
artists and the community . . . Dr .<br />
Richard A . Long, director of the<br />
Center for African and African-<br />
American Studies at Atlanta University,<br />
is arranging an art exhibition in<br />
"Homage to Alain Locke," which<br />
will be presented in New York in<br />
May under the joint auspices of the<br />
United <strong>Negro</strong> College Fund and the<br />
Center for African and African-<br />
American Studies . . . In Baltimore,<br />
the Association of Black Arts/East<br />
presented its second annual art exhibition<br />
in conjunction with the<br />
Thirdworld Museum . . . In Chicago,<br />
original art work reproductions by<br />
six Black artists was featured by<br />
50<br />
A<br />
Anthony was ane of the members<br />
purged from the party in March<br />
1969 . . . John Oliver Killens is author<br />
of the introduction to International<br />
Publishers' reprint of An ABC<br />
of Color, by the late W.E.B . Du<br />
Bois . The book's cover is by Ollie<br />
Harrington, the price $1 .35 .<br />
Academy Arts, a division of Intercraft<br />
Industries Corp ., during the<br />
annual International Home Furnishings<br />
Market. The reproductions included<br />
pen-and-ink art, lithographs<br />
of pastels and pits, prints of original<br />
oils, and silk-screened graphics .<br />
The artists were Yadunde, Don<br />
McIlvaine, Omar Loma, Clifford<br />
Lee, Sylvester Britton and Kush<br />
Bey . . The 1970 Black heritage<br />
calendar produced by the Du Sable<br />
Museum of African American History<br />
features Black artists-a sample<br />
sketch and a brief biography of the<br />
artists . The calendar was edited by<br />
Margaret Burroughs, executive director<br />
of the museum, and Felicia<br />
Ford, a museum staff member . It<br />
sells for $1 .65 per copy and $11 .50<br />
for lots of 10 . They are collectors'<br />
items . The museum is located at 3806<br />
S. Michigan Ave . in Chicago . . .<br />
New York's prestigious Whitney Museum<br />
of American Art is planning<br />
an exhibition of the works of top<br />
Black artists for the 1970-71 season<br />
as a consequence of talks with the<br />
Black Emergency Cultural Coalition .<br />
The museum also agreed to establish<br />
a fund to purchase works by younger<br />
and less well known Black artists .<br />
Members of the Coalition were<br />
Benny Andrews, Cliff Joseph, Reggie<br />
Gammon, Mahler Ryder and Henri<br />
Ghent.<br />
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March 1970 NEGRO DIGEST