selected writings
A Certain Spontaneity: Expression and Experience in Herbert Gentry’s Art
by Gretchen Wagner
An essay originally published in the exhibition catalogue Herbert Gentry: Paris and Beyond 1949-1978, RYAN LEE Gallery, New York, 2020.
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by Valerie J Mercer
An essay originally published in the exhibition catalog Explorations in the city of light: African-American artists in Paris, 1945-1965, The Studio Museum, Harlem, Jan. 18-June 2, 1996.
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by Romare Bearden
An introduction originally published in the exhibition catalogue An Ocean Apart: American Artists Abroad, October 8, 1982 — January 9, 1983, The Studio Museum, Harlem, 1982.
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by Uffe Harder
An introduction originally published in the exhibition catalog Herbert Gentry Paintings, October 10-28, 1978, Randall Galleries, LTD, New York, 1978.
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