The Wrightsman Galleries for French Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Kisluk-Grosheide, Danielle O.; Munger, Jeffrey

Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010

[From the library of Dr. Ralph Gomes, Howard University.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. xii, 259 p., ill., 26 cm. 

Dr. Gomes was a professor at Howard University for 49 years in sociology and criminology. He was also a former Olympic athlete, representing Guyana in the 1960 Rome summer Olympics. Besides his scholarly work, Gomes was active in the black liberation movement. He had an impressive and deep collection of black art, historical advertising and iconography that spoke of the passage of black people and how they sought to record their life stories. His collection spanned from slavery, to antebellum life, to Jim Crow, to the Harlem Renaissance, to sport, to the civil rights movement.