The Booth Family Center for Special Collections is located on the 5th floor Lauinger. Its staff are available to discuss research projects and help users find materials relevant to their needs.
Reference inquiries may be made
The Booth Family Center for Special Collections is open Mondays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Researchers should contact Booth staff to make an appointment before their visit to ensure the availability of source materials.
The Georgetown University Art Collection contains many individual works received by donation and by purchase that depict Black people at work and leisure, as activists in anti-racist and social justice movements, and as subjects of character studies. The Art Collection includes art by 30 Black artists, and new works are being actively acquired. In addition, there are several works where the depiction of Black people is obscured: they are not the primary subjects, often overshadowed by white people, who are foregrounded. The art curators have created a detailed guide with images and information about these items, which may be obtained upon request. Researchers should also consult the Art Collection Database, which consists of more than 21,000 catalogue records which can be searched by title, artist, medium, object type, period, region, or date. It is possible to search all of these fields using keywords.
The following art resources are a sample of works available in the Georgetown University Art Collection, part of the Booth Family Center for Special Collections.
Negro Mother (1932) Prentiss H. Taylor (American, 1907-1991) View in Art Collection database: https://art.library.georgetown.edu/Obj18553
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Scottsboro Limited (1932) Prentiss H. Taylor (American, 1907-1991) Lithograph on paper Artist's book View in the Art Collection database: |
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Brotherhood for Peace (1967) Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917-2000) Lithograph on paper 557 x 399 mm View in Art Collection database: |
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Jamming at the Savoy (1981) Romare Howard Bearden (American, 1911-1988) Etching on paper 422 x 603 mm View in Art Collection database: |
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Man (2003) Elizabeth Catlett (American, 1915-2012) Woodcut with linocut on paper 457.2 x 304.8 mm View in Art Collection database: |
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The Occupation of Alexandria from Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (2005) Kara Walker (American, 1969- ) Commercial/offset printing with screen printing on paper 990.6 X 1346.2 mm View in Art Collection database: https://art.library.georgetown.edu/Obj19845
Learn more about this piece in Art Curator LuLen Walker's article "Curator's Choice: Kara Walker's The Occupation of Alexandria." |
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