Studio portrait of James A. Porter with his painting The Family (1940). James Amos Porter was an artist, the head of the art gallery and art department at Howard University, and a pioneer in establishing the field of African-American art history. He was instrumental as the first scholar to provide a systematic, critical analysis of African-American artists and their works of art.
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Art historians African American artists Porter, James A. (James Amos), 1905-1970
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