Images of Devotion
IMAGES OF DEVOTION presented by Hampton Art Lovers is a series of spiritual based works from various Black Artists.
All of the works can be found on the pages of books and catalogues presented, in an effort to encourage the purchase of these volumes during our stay-at-home for the COVID-19 pandemic.
HENRY OSSAWA TANNER (b. 1859 - d. 1937)
Daniel in the Lions' Den
HENRY OSSAWA TANNER
1920
Oil on canvas
(Two Centuries of Black American Art, David C Driskell, @ 1976 Museum Associates of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, p.88)
LOÏS MAILOU JONES (b. 1905 - d. 1998)
Chanson d' Bahia
LOÏS MAILOU JONES
1989
Acrylic on canvas
(Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists, Jontyle Theresa Robinson, @ 1996 Spelman College and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. p. 18-19, 130)
JACOB LAWRENCE (b. 1917 - d. 2000)
GENESIS CREATION SERMON series
JACOB LAWRENCE
Gouache on paper
(The Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art, Andrea D. Barnwell, Amy M. Mooney, @ 1999 The Walter O. Evans Foundation for Art and Literature, p. 42, 48,119-126)