Richard J. Powell
John Spencer Bassett Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History
Richard J. Powell is John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History at Duke University, where he has taught since 1989. He studied at Morehouse College and Howard University before earning his doctorate in art history at Yale University. Along with teaching courses in American art, the arts of the African Diaspora, and contemporary visual studies, he has written extensively on topics ranging from primitivism to postmodernism, including such titles as Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson
(1991), Black Art: A Cultural History
(1997 & 2002), and Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture
(2008).
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- John Spencer Bassett Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1999
- Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1998
- Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies, African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2014
Contact Information
- 114 Buchanan Blvd, Smith Warehouse, Bay 9, A287c, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708
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richard.powell@duke.edu
(919) 684-2473
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http://www.richardjpowell.com
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Yale University 1988
- M.Phil., Yale University 1984
- M.A., Yale University 1982
- M.F.A., Howard University 1977
- B.A., Morehouse College 1975
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Duke Appointment History
- Dean of the Humanities, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2014 - 2016
- Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies, African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2013
- Professor of African and African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2002 - 2007
- Chair, Department of Art and Art History, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1996 - 2001
- Associate Professor with Tenure, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993 - 1998
- Assistant Professor, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1989 - 1993
- Recognition
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In the News
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Awards & Honors
- Edmund J. Safra Visiting Professorship. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. February 2019
- Membership. American Academy of Arts and Sciences. October 2018
- James S. Ackerman Scholar in Residence. American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy. October 2017
- Spirit of the Center Award. Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture, Charlotte, NC. December 2016
- Chercheur invite. Institut national d'histoire de l'art, Paris, France. September 2016
- Distinguished Scholar Session. College Art Association. February 2016
- Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly excellence in the Field of American Art History. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. October 2013
- Ph.D. Lab in Digital Knowledge Affiliated Faculty. John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. December 2012
- Acadia Summer Art Program Residency, Mount Desert Island, ME. Fabric Workshop and Museum. July 2012
- James A. Porter Award for Excellence in African American Art Scholarship. Howard University. April 2012
- Wilbur Cross Medal for Distinguished Alumni. Yale University. October 2009
- Fellow. National Humanities Center. 1995
- Ford Foundation Fellowships/Postdoctoral. National Academies. 1995
- Fellowships for University Teachers. National Endowment for the Humanities. 1992
- Ford Foundation Fellowships/Dissertaton. National Academies. 1986
- Research
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Selected Grants
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Powell, Richard J. Going There Black Visual Satire (Accepted). Richard D. Cohen Lectures on A, 2020.
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Powell, Richard. Archibald Motley Jazz Age Modernist, 2015.
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Powell, Richard J. African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond. Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2012.
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Powell, Richard J. Ras Ishi/Secret Diaries. Miller Publishing Company, Ltd., 2009.
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Powell, Richard J. Who Am I in This Picture? Amherst College Portraits. Amherst College, 2009.
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Powell, R. J. Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
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Powell, R. J. Circle Dance: The Art of John T. Scott. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
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Powell, R. J. Black Art: A Cultural History. London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 2002.
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Powell, R. J. Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow. Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2002.
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Powell, R. J. To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
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Powell, R. J. Jacob Lawrence. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1992.
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Powell, R. J. Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
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Powell, R. J. From the Potomac to the Anacostia: Art and Ideology in the Washington Area. Washington, DC: Washington Project for the Arts, 1989.
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Powell, R. J. James Lesesne Wells: Sixty Years in Art. Washington, DC: Washington Project for the Arts, 1986.
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Powell, R. J. Rhapsodies in Black: The Art of the Harlem Renaissance. Berkeley: University of California Press, n.d.
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Academic Articles
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Powell, Richard J. “The Brown Paper Bag Test.” Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 2018, no. 42–43 (November 1, 2018): 234–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-7185905.Full Text
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Oliver, V. C., and R. J. Powell. “Reminiscing: Valerie Cassel Oliver and Richard J. Powell in conversation.” Callaloo 40, no. 5 (January 1, 2017): 53–162. https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2017.0167.Full Text
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Powell, Richard J. “Who’s Zoomin’ Who?: The Eyes of Donyale Luna.” Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016, no. 38–39 (November 2016): 14–21. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-3641634.Full Text
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Oliver, Valerie Cassell, and Richard J. Powell. “"Richard Powell/'Say it Loud': An Interview with Richard Powell by Valerie Cassel Oliver".” Callaloo 38, no. 4 (2016): 985–95.
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Oliver, Valerie Cassell, and Richard J. Powell. “"Richard Powell/'Say it Loud': An Interview with Richard Powell by Valerie Cassel Oliver".” Callaloo 38, no. 4 (2016): 985–95.
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Powell, Richard J. “Rechercher et imaginer l’art « black » américain depuis 2005.” Perspective, no. 2 (December 31, 2015): 81–94. https://doi.org/10.4000/perspective.6159.Full Text Open Access Copy
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Powell, Richard J. “Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture.” Art Bulletin 95, no. 4 (December 2013): 646–49.Link to Item
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Powell, Richard J. “Freeman Henry Morris Murray: Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture.” The Art Bulletin 95 (December 2013): 646–49.
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Powell, Richard J. “The Woodshed.” Studies in the History of Art 71 (2011): 199–206.Link to Item
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Powell, Richard J. “'Paint That Thing!' Aaron Douglas's Call to Modernism.” American Studies 46 (2010): 107–19.
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Powell, Richard J. “The Picturesque, Miss Nottage and the Caribbean Sublime.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 25 (February 2008): 157–68.
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Powell, Richard J. “PAINT IN THE NAME OF LOVE.” International Review of African American Art 22, no. 2 (2008): 64–65.Link to Item
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Powell, Richard J. “Linguists, Poets, and ‘Others’ on African American Art.” American Art 17 (March 2003): 16–19.
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Powell, Richard J. “Appreciation. Jacob Lawrence: Keep on Movin’.” American Art 15 (March 2001): 90–93.
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Powell, R. J. “On Alain Locke and James Porter.” Hatch Billops Collection, Inc./Artist and Influence 11 (1998): 1–8.
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Powell, Richard J. “Cinqué: Antislavery Portraiture and Patronage in Jacksonian America.” American Art 11, no. 3 (October 1997): 49–73. https://doi.org/10.1086/424304.Full Text
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POWELL, R. J. “ART, HISTORY, AND VISION.” Art Bulletin 77, no. 3 (September 1995): 379–82.Link to Item
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Powell, R. J. “Art of the Harlem Renaissance.” Art Bulletin 77 (September 1, 1995): 132–37.
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Powell, R. J. “The Subject in/of Art History.” The Art Bulletin 77, no. 3 (September 1, 1995): 515. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.1995.10786651.Full Text
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POWELL, R. J. “IMAGES AND IDENTITIES + EDITORIAL - A BRIEF, INTRODUCTORY NOTE.” International Review of African American Art 11, no. 3 (1994): 6–6.Link to Item
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Powell, R. J. “The Art of Raymond Saunders: Colored.” New Observations 97 (1993): 10–15.
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Powell, R. J. “What Becomes a Legend Most? Reflections on Romare Bearden.” Transition 55 (1992): 62–72.
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Powell, Richard J. “"In My Family of Primitiveness and Tradition": William H. Johnson's "Jesus and the Three Marys".” American Art 5, no. 4 (October 1991): 21–33. https://doi.org/10.1086/424127.Full Text
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Powell, R. J. “Margo Humphrey: Interview.” Hatch Billops Collection, Inc./Artist and Influence 5 (1987): 56–65.
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Powell, Richard J. “William H. Johnson's Minde Kerteminde.” Black American Literature Forum 20, no. 4 (1986): 393–393. https://doi.org/10.2307/2904438.Full Text
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Powell, R. J. “On Exhibit: Black Artists of the Nineteenth Century.” The Chicago Reader, August 16, 1985, 10–11.
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Powell, Richard J. “African Art at the Field Museum.” African Arts 18, no. 2 (February 1985): 24–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/3336186.Full Text
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Powell, R. J. “Black Folk in America, 1930-1980.” Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin, 1984, 11–18.
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Powell, R. J. “Current Expressions in Afro-American Printmaking.” Printnews 3 (April 1981).
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Powell, R. J. “The Afro-American Printmaking Tradition.” Printnews 3 (February 1981): 3–7.
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Powell, R. J. “9/9.” The New Art Examiner 7 (June 1980): 10–11.
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Powell, R. J. “Houston Conwill.” Neworld, February 1979.
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Powell, R. J. “Talking to James Lesesne Wells.” Print Review 9 (1979): 65–75.
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Powell, R. J. “Images and Identities: A Brief, Introductory Note.” The International Review of African American Art 11, no. 3 (n.d.): 6–6.
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Powell, R. J. “Journeying Beyond: The Prints and Paintings of Joyce Wellman.” The International Review of African American Art 10, no. 3 (n.d.).
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Book Sections
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Caragol, Taina, Dorothy Moss, Richard J. Powell, and Kim Sajet. “The Obama Portraits, in Art History and Beyond.” In The Obama Portraits. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020.
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Caragol, Taina, Dorothy Moss, Richard J. Powell, and Kim Sajet. “The Obama Portraits, in Art History and Beyond.” In The Obama Portraits. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020.
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Powell, Richard. “Raymond Saunders.” In Among Others Blackness at MoMA, edited by Darby English and Charlotte Barat, 2019.
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Powell, Richard. “Herve Telemaque.” In Among Others: Blackness at MoMA, edited by Darby English and Charlotte Barat. New York, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 2019.
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Powell, Richard. “Black Parnassus: Chicago in the Interwar Years.” In Gordon Parks The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950, edited by Philip Brookman, 259–65. Steidl/Gordon Parks Foundation/National Gallery of Art, 2018.
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Powell, R. J. “"Porch and Drawl".” In Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, edited by Miranda Lash and Trevor Schoonmaker, 106–19. Durham, North Carolina: Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2016.
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Powell, R. J. “"Wounded Zouave and the Cyrenian Paradigm".” In The Civil War in Art and Memory, edited by Kirk Savage, 65–80. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2016.
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Powell, R. J. “"I Talismani di Betye Saar".” In Betye Saar: Uneasy Dancer, edited by Mario Marinetti, 233–41. Milano, Italy: Fondazione Prada, 2016.
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Powell, R. J. “"Les ames illustrees: W. E. B. Du Bois dans l'art contemporain".” In The Color Line: Les Artistes Africains-Americains et La Segregation, edited by Daniel Soutif, 74–85. Paris, France: Flammarion, 2016.
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Powell, R. J. “Probability Theory: David Hammons's Money Tree.” In Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, edited by R. J. Wolin, Joseph R., 42–49. Los Angeles, CA: The Skylark Foundation, 2015.
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Powell, R. J. “"Dem Shoes": Thomas Hart Benton's Romance.” In American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood, edited by A. Bailly, 83–87. Munich: Delmonico Books - Prestel, 2015.
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Powell, R. J. “Walking on Water: Embodiment, Abstraction, and Black Visuality.” In Represent: 200 Years of African American Art in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, edited by R. J. Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois, 1–19. Philadelphia, PA, 2014.
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Powell, R. J. “New Negroes, Harlem, and Jazz (1900-1950).” In The Image of the Black in Western Art, edited by D. Bindman and H. L. Gates, 53–104. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014.
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Powell, Richard J. “"Foreword: Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Devotional Memorial".” In Tell It with Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Shaw Memorial, edited by Sarah Greenough and Nancy Anderson, xv–185. Yale University Press, 2013.
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Powell, Richard J. “"Herein Lie Buried Many Things: Screens, Entryways and Cabinets in Twentieth-Century Black Visual Discourse".” In African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond, 12–33. Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2012.
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Powell, Richard J. “"Tanner and Transcendence".” In Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit, edited by Anna O. Marley, 56–65. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012.
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Powell, Richard J. “"The Woodshed".” In Romare Bearden: American Modernist, edited by Ruth Fine and Jacqueline Francis, 200–2006. National Gallery of Art, 2011.
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Powell, Richard J. “"From Diaspora to Exile: Black Women Artists in 1960s and 1970s Europe".” In The Migrant’s Time: Rethinking Art History and Diaspora, edited by Saloni Mathur, 78–90. Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, 2011.
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Powell, Richard J. “"Trembling Vistas, Primal Youth: William H. Johnson’s Painterly Expressionism, 1927-1935" & "Devotion and Disrepute: William H. Johnson’s Florence, South Carolina Paintings, circa 1944".” In William H. Johnson: An American Modern, 22–101. University of Washington Press, 2011.
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Powell, Richard J. “"The Systems and Semiotics of Ras Ishi Butcher".” In Ras Ishi/Secret Diaries, 19–27. Miller Publishing Company, Ltd., 2009.
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Powell, Richard J. “"Unexpected Faces in Public Places".” In Who Am I in This Picture? Amherst College Portraits, 8–15. Amherst College, 2009.
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Powell, Richard J. “"Paesaggio come evasion. Soggezione e affrancamento nelle immagini ottocentesche di afroamericani".” In Pittura Americana Del XIX Secolo: Atti Del Convegno, edited by Marco Goldin and H Barbara Weinberg, 116–36. Linea d’Ombra Libri, 2008.
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Powell, Richard J. “"Barkley L. Hendricks, Anew".” In Barkley L. Hendricks/Birth of the Cool, edited by Trevor Schoonmaker, 38–57. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2008.
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Powell, R. J., Richard J. Powell, and Martin Puryear. “"A Conversation with Martin Puryear".” In Martin Puryear, edited by John Elderfield, 99–110. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007.
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Powell, Richard J. “"The Aaron Douglas Effect".” In Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist, edited by Susan Earle, 53–73. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2007.
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Powell, Richard J. “"Changing, Conjuring Reality".” In Conjuring Bearden, 19–31. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2006.
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Powell, Richard J. “"Racial Imaginaries, from Charles White’s Preacher to Jean-Paul Goude and Grace Jones’ Nigger Arabesque".” In Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary, 9–27. Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2005.
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Powell, Richard J. “"On James A. Porter’s and (our) Modern Negro Art".” In A Proud Continuum: Eight Decades of Art at Howard University, 25–28. Howard University Gallery of Art, 2005.
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Powell, R. J. “To Be Real.” In The Barkley L. Hendricks Experience, 13–15. New London, Connecticut: Lyman Allyn, 2001.
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Powell, R. J. “Sartor Africanus.” In Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture, edited by Susan Fillin-Yeh, 217–42. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
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Powell, R. J. “Harmonizer of Chaos.” In Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, edited by Peter Nesbett and Michelle DuBois, 147–63. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.
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Powell, R. J. “Conjuring Canes and Bible Quilts: Through the Prism of Nineteenth Century African American Spirituality.” In African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Textures, edited by Vincent L. Wimbush, 342–54. New York: Continuum, 2000.
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Powell, R. J. “Lamentations from the ‘Hood.” In Kerry James Marshall/Mementos, 31–47. Chicago: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 2000.
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Powell, R. J. “The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism.” In African American Literary Criticism, 1773 to 2000, edited by Hazel Arnett Ervin. New York: Twayne Publishers, 289-302, 1999.
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Other Articles
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Powell, R. J. “African and Afro-American Art: Call and Response.” Field Museum, 1984.
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Exhibitions, Screenings, & Performances
- Sonia Boyce: Crop Over | at John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University 2011
- Embodied: African American Images in Contemporary Art | at David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 2010
- Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary | at Walsall Art Gallery, Birmingham, England 2005
- Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary | at Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England 2005
- Circle Dance: The Art of John T. Scott | at New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA 2005
- Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow | at High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA 2002
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Artistic Works & Non-Print Media
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Exhibits
- Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist. Curator. 2014
- Sonia Boyce: Crop Over. Curator. 2011
- Embodied: African American Images in Contemporary Art. Creator. 2010
- Back to Black: Art, Cinema and the Racial Imaginary. Curator. 2005
- Circle Dance: The Art of John T. Scott. Creator. 2005
- Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow. Curator. 2002
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Video Recordings
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- AAAS 520S: Harlem Renaissance 2021
- ARTHIST 384: Art of the United States 2021
- ARTHIST 554S: Harlem Renaissance 2021
- AAAS 227: African American Art 2020
- AAAS 348: African Art: From Royal Court to Contemporary Marketplace 2020
- AAAS 720S: Outsiders and Insiders 2020
- ARTHIST 283: African American Art 2020
- ARTHIST 345: African Art: From Royal Court to Contemporary Marketplace 2020
- ARTHIST 546S: The American Artist 2020
- ARTHIST 715S: Outsiders and Insiders 2020
- ICS 223: African Art: From Royal Court to Contemporary Marketplace 2020
- AAAS 227: African American Art 2019
- AAAS 329: The Black Atlantic 2019
- ARTHIST 283: African American Art 2019
- ARTHIST 383: The Black Atlantic 2019
- ARTHIST 791: Individual Research in Art History 2019
- ICS 226: The Black Atlantic 2019
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- Love Will Find A Way: The Plaints and Acclamations of Alabama Artists. Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts. November 16, 2019 2019
- Archibald Motley: Visual Pundit. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. May 16, 2019 2019
- Conversation with Greg Tate. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC.. May 9, 2019 2019
- Resurrection and Respiration: Two Sculptures by Edmonia Lewis and Francesco Pezzicar. Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art. May 7, 2019 2019
- Gallery Talk: David Hammons' How Ya Like Me Now?. Glenstone Museum. March 30, 2019 2019
- The Minstrel Stain. Smithsonian American Art Museum. March 19, 2019 2019
- Bill Traylor's Yellow Chicken. Smithsonian American Art Museum. February 22, 2019 2019
- The Aesthetics of the Cool Revisited: Two Portraits by William H. Johnson. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University. November 9, 2018 2018
- Black Parnassus. Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College. October 19, 2018 2018
- Drawing the Color Line: The Art of Ollie Harrington. Yale University Art Gallery. April 26, 2018 2018
- Blue in Green: Jacob Lawrence and Viridian.. University of Florida. March 30, 2018 2018
- Black, Bronze, Blues: The Black Metropolis, Between Past & Future: Race, Urban Planning & Afro-American Culture in Chicago. Universite Paris Diderot. November 16, 2017 2017
- Resurrection and Respiration: Two Sculptures by Edmonia Lewis and Francesco Pezzicar. American Academy in Rome. November 7, 2017 2017
- Art contemporain africain-americain? Conscience politique et esthetique noire, faire face a l'histoire du racisme. Festival de l'Histoire de l'Art. June 2, 2017 2017
- Museological Territories: The American Wing Think Tank. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. December 8, 2016 2016
- The Color Line in African American Art. EDUCO. October 20, 2016 2016
- Dialogue: The Color Line. Terra Foundation for American Art Center & Library. October 10, 2016 2016
- Souls Illustrated.. St. Louis Art Museum. April 14, 2016 2016
- Going There: Considering Black Visual Satire. Richard D. Cohen Lecture Series on African and African American Art. Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. March 29, 2016 - March 31, 2016 2016
- I Hate the Banjo Lesson!. College Art Association. February 4, 2016 2016
- Blue in Green: Jacob Lawrence and Viridian. Savannah College of Art and Design. October 15, 2015 2015
- Fat Man in Bronzeville: Archibald Motley's Witness to Modernity.. Chicago Cultural Center. March 9, 2015 2015
- Children of the Night. Philadelphia Museum of Art. January 17, 2015 2015
- Fat Man in Bronzeville: Archibald Motley's Witness to Modernity.. Rutgers University. October 28, 2014 2014
- Face Value: Portraiture in the Age of Abstraction. National Portrait Gallery. October 23, 2014 2014
- Black Visual Aesthetics. NEH Summer Institute for Colleges and University Teachers. July 17, 2014 2014
- Fat Man in Bronzeville: Archibald Motley's Witness to Modernity.. Amon Carter Museum of American Art. June 19, 2014 2014
- Sudanesia. DAK'ART 2014, Biennale of Contemporary Art. May 12, 2014 2014
- Comments, Carrie Mae Weems LIVE: Past Tense/Future Perfect. Guggenheim Museum. April 26, 2014 2014
- African American Studies' Visual Turn: Souls Illustrated. Princeton University. April 24, 2014 2014
- Fat Man in Bronzeville: Archibald Motley's Witness to Modernity. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. February 28, 2014 2014
- Richard J. Powell & Darlene Clark Hine: In Conversation. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. February 28, 2014 2014
- The Image of the Black in Western Art: The 20th Century. National Gallery of Art. February 23, 2014 2014
- Changing, Conjuring Reality. Michael C. Carlos Museum. January 22, 2014 2014
- Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist. Ackland Art Museum. December 13, 2013 2013
- African American Close-Up: Students Curating Online. November 15, 2013 2013
- Wounded Zouave (and Infantry Man). November 8, 2013 2013
- African American Art in the 20th Century. October 13, 2013 2013
- In Conversation: Modern African American Art. June 1, 2013 2013
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Devotional Memorial. May 3, 2013 2013
- Seventeenth Annual W.E.B. DuBois Memorial Lecture: The Souls of Black Folk Illustrated. February 11, 2013 2013
- 150 Years of Civil Rights in American Art. February 6, 2013 2013
- William H. Johnson: Primitivism, Modernism & African American Culture. January 20, 2013 2013
- Moroccan Architecture: An Overview, "Ali Zaoua - Prince of the Streets," & "Contemporary Moroccan Artists". December 14, 2012 2012
- Changing, Conjuring Reality. October 27, 2012 2012
- Jungle Beauty: Harlem Renaissance Portraits, their Sitters, & their Makers. May 18, 2012 2012
- New Negroes, Harlem & Jazz. April 23, 2012 2012
- Landscape/Escape: Towards an African American Landscape. March 4, 2012 2012
- Bridges. December 10, 2011 2011
- Valorization, Effacement & Rupture in the History of Black American Art in France. November 9, 2011 2011
- Point/Counterpoint Dialogue: Richard J. Powell and Glenda Gilmore. September 11, 2011 2011
- Rick Powell & Julie Dash: In Conversation. September 8, 2011 2011
- Ethiopia Awakened, Harlem Sublimated: Aaron Douglas's Call to Modernism. May 28, 2011 2011
- The Riddle of the Sphinx. April 2, 2011 2011
- Voyage to Atlantis. February 1, 2011 2011
- Beauties Revisited. January 19, 2011 2011
- The Deep. September 15, 2010 2010
- Diaspora and Exile: Black Women Artists in 1960s Europe. April 15, 2010 2010
- Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture. April 6, 2010 2010
- Donyale Luna. April 2, 2010 2010
- Contemporary Moroccan Artists. February 18, 2010 2010
- Ali Zaoua - Prince of the Streets. February 12, 2010 2010
- Franco-American Images of Morocco. February 7, 2010 2010
- Barkley L. Hendricks: Cutting a Figure. November 21, 2009 2009
- Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture. November 13, 2009 2009
- Minstrelsy Uncorked: Thomas Eakins' Empathetic Realism. November 4, 2009 2009
- Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture. October 22, 2009 2009
- On Kerry James Marshall. October 16, 2009 2009
- Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture. October 6, 2009 2009
- Activating Heaven: Ras Ishi Butcher. September 12, 2009 2009
- Barkley L. Hendricks: Cutting a Figure. July 30, 2009 2009
- Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture. May 18, 2009 2009
- African Art in Europe: An Overview. May 15, 2009 2009
- Rick Powell & Deb Willis: In Conversation. May 5, 2009 2009
- Black Aesthetic Workshop. April 16, 2009 2009
- African Americans & the Art of Printmaking. April 2, 2009 2009
- Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture. March 14, 2009 2009
- African Americans & the Art of Printmaking. March 8, 2009 2009
- Art & Curatorial Practices in the Caribbean. February 14, 2009 2009
- Patronage & African American Artists of the 1930s. February 8, 2009 2009
- Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture. February 6, 2009 2009
- Blues Aesthetic Redux. January 18, 2009 2009
- Aaron Douglas's Call to Modernism. November 24, 2008 2008
- A Conversation with Dr. Walter O. Evans, Art Collector & executive Director of the Jacob & Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation. September 17, 2008 2008
- Barkley L. Hendricks. May 22, 2008 2008
- Aaron Douglas's Call to Modernism. May 8, 2008 2008
- Diaspora and Exile: Black Women Artists in 1960s Europe. April 25, 2008 2008
- Paesaggio/Fuga. Dominazione e organizzazione nelle immagini afro-americane dell'Ottocentro. April 17, 2008 2008
- The Black Arts Movement. March 15, 2008 2008
- Landscape/Escape: Subjugation and Agency in 19th-Century Images of African Americans. March 13, 2008 2008
- Getting a 'New Head': 19th-Century Images of Black Women's Head Adornments. February 19, 2008 2008
- The Art of Kara Walker. January 17, 2008 2008
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Service to the Profession
- Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship Jury. December 14, 2012 2012
- Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition Jury. December 14, 2012 2012
- National Museum of African American History & Culture Scholarly Advisory Committee. 2012 - 2015 2012 - 2015
- Arts of the African Diaspora Workshop. February 3, 2011 2011
- Selection Committee, David C. Driskell Award, High Museum of Art, Committee Member. January 8, 2008 2008
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