06/24/2021
Hello social media world! 👋🏻 My name is Emma Bealo and I am the Approval Plan Administrator for Worldwide Books.
Welcome to the first edition of “What’s Emma Looking At?”. I will be periodically posting exhibition catalogues that come across my desk that I think are particularly interesting for one reason or another.
For the inaugural post, I’ve decide to feature “Joshua Johnson: Portraitist of Early American Baltimore”. The exhibition is currently on display at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts until October 24th.
Publisher’s description: Often considered the first professional African-American artist, Johnson was a freed slave who achieved a remarkable degree of success as a portraitist in his lifetime by painting affluent patrons in his native Baltimore. “Joshua Johnson: Portraitist of Early American Baltimore” contextualizes Johnson both historically and culturally, and explores further the key forms of natural symbolism represented in his paintings.
If you are interested in purchasing this title, or are curious as to whether it will come on your approval plan, please email: [email protected]
