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PUBLICATIONS

Ornamental Blackness: The Black Figure in European Decorative Arts, Yale University Press, 2025

Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition, Rizzoli, 2020.

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Co-Editor with Nicola Jennings, The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Essays on Sculpture, Issue 81, April 2023

Co-Author with Susan H. Libby, The Black Figure in the European Imaginary, Giles in association with the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida, 2017.

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Co-Editor with Susan H. Libby, Blacks and Blackness in European Art of the Long Nineteenth Century, Routledge, 2014

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Margo Humphrey, The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art,  Pomegranate, Fall, 2009

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Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell, Pomegranate, 2007

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Ornamental Blackness: The Black Figure in European Decorative Arts, Yale University Press, 2025

Co-Editor with Amara Antilla, Vivian Browne: My Kind of Protest, Giles in Association with The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, 2025

Co-Editor with Nicola Jennings, The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Essays on Sculpture, Issue 81, April 2023

Co-Author with Susan H. Libby, The Black Figure in the European Imaginary, Giles in association with the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida, 2017.

Co-Editor with Susan H. Libby, Blacks and Blackness in European Art of the Long Nineteenth Century, Routledge, 2014

Evolution: Five Decades of Printmaking by David C. Driskell, Pomegranate, 2007

Margo Humphrey, The David C. Driskell Series of African American Art,  
Pomegranate, Fall, 2009

Peer-reviewed and Invited Articles/Essays:

“The Spaces Between: Black American Painters in Paris,” in Paris Noir, Centre Pompidou, 2025

“Enchantment: Black Women Artists and the Mythic Imaginary,” in Century: 100 Years of Black Art at MAM, Montclair Art Museum, 2024

“Philemona Williamson: The Borders of Innocence,” Galerie Semoise, Paris, 2023 (online)

“Blood Bronze and Stone: Fictions of Slavery in Victorian Era Sculpture,” Essays on Sculpture, Issue 81, April 2023

“A Conversation with Richard Hunt,” in Richard Hunt, Gregory R. Miller and Co., 2022

“The Vanquished Unchained: Abolition and Emancipation in Sculpture of the Atlantic World,” in Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, ed. Elyse Nelson and Wendy S. Walters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press, 2022

“Variations and Old Master Narratives: Bob Thompson in the Wake of Art History”

in Bob Thompson: This House is Mine, ed. Diana K Tuite, Yale University Press, 2021

“La splendure des Maures,” in La Sculpture Triomphante:1850-1880, Fine Arts, Paris, 2018

Introduction, “Riff: Black Artists and the European Canon,” special section of Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, Spring, 2018

Co-Editor, Riff: Black Artists and the European Canon,” special section of Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art, Spring 2018

“A Blackamoor’s Progress: The Ornamental Black Body in European Furniture” in Resignifications: European Blackamoors, Africana Readings. Awam Amka, ed., Postcard, Rome, 2016

“Unbändige Schönheit. Die Kronleuchter aus Murano-Glas von Fred Wilson” (Uncontrollable Beauty: Murano Glass Chandeliers by Fred Wilson), Bildpunkt, Summer 2016, http://www.igbildendekunst.at/bildpunkt/2016/andere-in-der-ferne.htm

“Porcelain Blackness: Thoughts on Race and Representation in Ceramic Arts,” NCECA Journal, volume 36, 2015

“Exceeding Blackness: African Women in the Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme,” in Blacks and Blackness in European Art of the Long Nineteenth Century, Ashgate, 2014

“Activism and the Shaping of Black Identities, 1964-1988,” in T

he Image of the Black in Western Art, The Twentieth Century, David Bindman and

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. eds., Harvard University Press, 2014.
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“Tanner and “Oriental” Africa” in Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, University of California Press, 2012.

“Sugarboxes and Blackamoors: Ornamental Blackness in Early Meissen Porcelain,” in The Cultural Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Porcelain, ed. Michael Yonan and Alden Cavanaugh, Routledge, 2010

Exhibition Catalog Essays:

“Joyce Wellman: Inheritor of Dreams,” in Coded Messages: Joyce Wellman, Lockhart Gallery, SUNY, Geneseo, 2018

“Notes on the Politics of Identity in African American Art” in African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center, Pomegranate, 2012

“Patterns of Nature: Domesticity, Memory, and the Decorative in the Arts of David C. Driskell,” in Creative Spirit, The Art of David C. Driskell, The David C. Driskell Center, 2011

“Form, Color and Beauty in the Art of Stephanie E. Pogue,” in Arabesque: The Art of Stephanie E. Pogue, The David C. Driskell Center, 2008

“Charting the Terrain of African American Art and Artistry,” in Holding our Own: Selections from the Collectors Club of Washington, D.C. Inc.,
University of Maryland University College, 2006

“Method and Mission: The Jean and Robert Steele Collection” in Successions: Pints by African American Artists from the Jean and Robert
Steele Collection
, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, 2002

Contributing Author, Holland, Juanita, et. al., Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection, Pomegranate
Press, 1998.

Echoes: The Art of David C. Driskell, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, 1998

Encyclopedia Entries:

“African American Studies: Visual Arts,” Oxford Bibliographies, Gene Andrew Jarrett, ed., http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/page/african-american-studies


“David C. Driskell,” The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, Oxford University Press, 1st ed.


“Margo Humphrey,” The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, Oxford University Press, 1st ed.


“James Lesesne Wells,” The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, Oxford University Press, 1st ed.

General Articles:

“Historic Masters: imagining blacks in European Art,” Fine Art Connoisseur, March/April, 2017

“Imagining Obama: The Art of Obama,” Politico Magazine, Jan/Feb 2016

Review Articles:

“Kara Walker: A Black Hole is Everything a Star Longs to Be,” ed. Anita Haldemann, Women’s Art Journal, forthcoming

“Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition,” by Sarah Thomas, CAA Reviews, November 2021.
http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/3819#.YhUGTi-B0bQ

“Designing a New Tradition: Loïs Mailou Jones and the Aesthetics of Blackness,” by Rebecca VanDiver, RACAR, Journal of the Universities Art Association of Canada, 46, no2, Fall 2021 https://www.racar-racar.com/uploads/5/7/7/4/57749791/racar_46_2_digital_zz_childs.pdf

“Le Modèle Noir de Géricault à Matisse,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 18, no. 2, Autumn 2019
https://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn19/childs-reviews-le-modele-noir-de-gericault-a-matisse

“Presence of Mind: Revealing Africans in Renaissance Art,” Transition Magazine, April 2013.

“Material Girls: Contemporary Black Women Artists,” The Journal of Modern Craft, March 2012.

“Portraits of A People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century,” Review article, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Autumn, 2006, www.19thc-artworldwide.org/

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