Museum Store

Studio Museum Store

The Store at The Studio Museum in Harlem carries exceptional books and catalogs that examine and document the art produced by African-Americans and artists of African descent.Please call the Museum Store at 212.864.4500 x237 for a complete listing of our publications or to place an order.

Museum Members receive a 15% discount.

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Wednesday through Friday 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Saturday 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday 12:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Museum store is closed Monday, Tuesday and Major Holidays

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Featured Publications:

Challenge of the Modern: African American Artists 1925-1945

A fully illustrated exhibition catalogue.

Text by Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims, Excecutive Director of the Studio Museum in Harlem and curator of the exhibition with Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Leronn Brooks, Leslie King-Hammond and Helen Shannon.

This exhibition catalogue features paintings, photographs, watercolors, lithographs and sculptures by more than 40 artists of African descent.

Featured Artists:
James Latimer Allen, Charles Alston, William Artis, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, Robert Blackburn, Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr., Selma Burke, Albert I. Cassell, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Stuart Davis, Beuford Delaney, Aaron Douglas, William Edmondson, Louis Fry, Palmer Hayden, Clementine Hunter, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Anna Russell Jones, Wifredo Lam, Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, Howard Mackey, Edna Manley, Robert McNeil, Archibald Motley, Bruce Nugent, Philome Obin, Hayward Oubre, Horace Pippin, Elizabeth Prophet, Teodoro Ramos Blanco, Hilyard Robinson, Charles Sebree, John Jacob Sims, Sr., Morgan and Marvin Smith, James VanDerZee, Carl Van Vechten, James Lesesne Wells, Winold Weiss, Charles White, Ellis Wilson, Clarence “Cap” Wigington, Hale Woodruff.

Softcover, 125 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 ins., with full-color reproductions and b&w images throughout.

Price $25.00 (#2760) (Please call or e-mail the Museum Store for more information)
Members receive a 15% discount.

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Freestyle

A fully illustrated exhibition catalogue.

This fully illustrated exhibition catalogue includes an introduction by Thelma Golden, an essay by Hamza Walker, and texts by today’s most engaging young curators, thinkers and critics.

Freestyle takes The Studio Museum in Harlem back to its original mission: to present the cutting-edge of contemporary art by artists of African descent.

This national survey, organized by curator Thelma Golden with Christine Y. Kim, introduces the work of 28 of the most exciting emerging black artists living and working in the U.S. The artists were born primarily after the Civil Rights movement, and grew up with hip hop, 80s pop culture, identity politics and multiculturalism. This generation of artists opens up new discourses on ‘black art’ and identity through a variety of artistic languages.

Featured Artists:
Laylah Ali, John Bankston, Sanford Biggers, Mark Bradford, Louis Cameron, Rico Gatson, Deborah Grant, Kojo Griffin, Adler Guerrier, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Tana Hargest, Kira Lynn Harris, David Huffman, Jerald Ieans, Rashid Johnson, Vincent Johnson, Jennie C. Jones, Arnold J. Kemp, Dave McKenzie, Julie Mehretu, Adia Millett, Kori Newkirk, Camille Norment, Senam Okudzeto, Clifford Owens, Nadine Robinson, Susan Smith-Pinelo and Eric Wesley

Featured Writers:
Blake Bradford, Valerie Cassel, Sylvia Chivaratanond, Lisa Gail Collins, Dean Daderko, Cletus Daglish-Schommer, Malik Gaines, Claire Gilman, Thelma Golden, Glen Helfand, David Hunt, Olukemi Ilesnami, Sandra D. Jackson, Karen E. Jones, Eungie Joo, Christine Y. Kim, Raina A. Lampkins-Fielder, Susette Min, Jenelle Porter, Edwin Ramoran, Sarah Robins, Lauren Ross, Trevor Schoonmaker, Teka Selman, Debra Singer, Andrea K. Scott, Franklin Sirmans and Maria-Christina Villasenor.

This publication documents an unprecedented exhibition that takes the pulse and creative temperature and presents a group of young artists poised for the 21st century. True to its title, Freestyle features work in all media including painting, sculpture, site-specific installation, sound work, video and digital projects.

Price $30.00 (#374) (Please call or e-mail the Museum Store for more information)
Members receive a 15% discount.

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Passages: Contemporary Art in Transition (2000)

This exhibition catalog features photographs, paintings, installations, and sculpture by 17 artists of African descent.

Includes:
Terry Adkins, Willie Birch, Chakaia Booker, Colin Chase, David Hammons, Kerry James Marshall, Alison Saar and Nari Ward, among others whose works are paradigms of the transition of contemporary art from Post-Modernist concepts to those which will define artistic output in the 21st century.

Essay by Deirdre A. Scott, guest curator,Introduction by Kinshasha Holman Conwill, and Foreword by Lowery Stokes Sims.

Photo essay by Frank Stewart documents the artists and process of this installation-based exhibition.

Softcover, 96 pages. 8 1/2 x 11 ins. 60 full-color plates, b&w images throughout.

Price $25.00 (#373) (#465032)
Museum Members receive a 15% discount.

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To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (1999)

Essays by Richard J. Powell and Jock Reynolds, curators of the exhibition, document the collections of the HBCUs and the partnership forged amongst the HBCUs, the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, and the co-organizers for the exhibition, The Studio Museum in Harlem and the Addison Gallery of American Art.

Full-color reproductions of over 100 works include “before-and-after” images and descriptions of the conservation methods used to preserve the works in this exhibition.

Published with the Addison Gallery of American Art. Introduction by Kinshasha Holman Conwill.

240 pages, numerous b&w photographs throughout.

Price $60.00 hardcover (#757)
Price $35.00 softcover (#943)
Museum Members receive a 15% discount.

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Norman Lewis: Black Paintings, 1946-1977 (1998)

This important exhibition catalog examines Norman Lewis’ contribution to the Abstract Expressionist movement and American modernism. His relation to the New York School and his work as a political activist and post-colonial artist are discussed.

Essays by Lowery Stokes Sims, David Craven, and co-curators Ann Gibson and Jorge Daniel Vaneciano.
Introduction by Kinshasha Holman-Conwill.

Softcover, 124 pages. 110 illustrations, 41 in color.

Price $26.95 (#369)
Museum Members receive a 15% discount.

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The Studio Museum in Harlem: 25 Years of African-American Art (1995)

This exhibition catalog includes paintings, sculpture, drawings, collages, and prints collected by the Museum from 1968 to 1993.
Forward by Kinshasha Holman-Conwill. Essay by Valerie J. Mercer, exhibition curator.

Softcover, 56 pages. 45 full-color reproductions.

Price $16.50 (#381)
Museum Members receive a 15% discount.

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Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-1965 (1995)

This pivotal addition to the scholarship on African-American modernists analyzes the development and historical significance of painters Ed Clark, Beauford Delaney, Herbert Gentry, Lois Mailou-Jones, and Harry Potter and sculptors Barbara Chase-Riboud and Harold Cousins. It examines the importance of Paris as an artistic Mecca and its influence on the themes, imagery, styles, and philosophy of major African-American artists.

Essays by Catherine Bernard, Peter Selz, Michele Fabre, and Valerie J. Mercer, curator of the exhibition.
Softcover, 100 pages. 110 illustrations, 47 in color.

Price $29.95 (#127)
Museum Members receive a 15% discount.

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Wifredo Lam and His Contemporaries (1992)

This scholarly and long awaited publication examines the work of the Afro-Cuban artist at a pivotal time of his career, and within the context of the New York School and the artists of the CoBrA group.

Introduction by Jacques Leenhardt. Essays by Lowery Stokes Sims, Giulio V. Blanc, and Julia P. Herzberg.

Softcover, 146 pages. 43 full-color plates.

Price $34.95 (#376)
Museum Members receive a 15% discount.

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Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America (1987)

This seminal publicatoin explores the period of cultural, political, social, and artistic activity in Harlem in the 1920s and 30s through the work of sculptor Meta Warrick Fuller, photographer James Van Der Zee, painters Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, and William H. Johnson, and their contemporaries.

Essays by David Driskell, David Levering Lewis, and Deborah Willis Ryan.

Hardcover, 200 pages. 140 illustrations, 55 in color.

Price $17.98 (#705)
Museum Members receive a 15% discount.
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