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Portrait of a Friendship 5: Langston Hughes and Gilbert Price

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This is the 5th article in a series of articles on the friendship between ‘two’ African American artists, a “friendship beyond understanding”. In every article The Harlem Renaissance is the context of the story. This article is about the friendship between the poet Langston Hughes and the opera singer Gilbert Price.

Rob Perrée tries to answer the questions the friendship evokes.
First published September 2020
Langston Hughes (photographer unknown)

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PORTRAIT OF A FRIENDSHIP 4: WALLACE THURMAN AND THE NIGGERATI

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This is the 4th article in a series of articles on the friendship between ‘two’ African American artists, a “friendship beyond understanding”. In every article The Harlem Renaissance is the context of the story. This article is about the friendship between Wallace Thurman and the Niggerati.

Rob Perrée tries to answer the questions the friendship evokes.
First published Jult 2020

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PORTRAIT OF A FRIENSHIP 3 COUNTEE CULLEN AND HAROLD JACKMAN

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This is the third article in a series of articles on the friendship between two African American artists, a “friendship beyond understanding”. In every article The Harlem Renaissance is the context of the story.

Rob Perrée tries to answer the questions the friendship evokes.
First published June 2020

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Portrait of a Friendship 2: Richmond Barthé and Richard Bruce Nugent

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This is the second article in a series of articles on the friendship between two African American artists, a “friendship beyond understanding”. In every article The Harlem Renaissance plays a role.

Rob Perrée tries to answer the questions the friendship evokes.
First published May 2020
Richmond Barthé, The Singing Slave, 1940

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Portrait of a Friendship 1: Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin

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This is the first article in a series of articles on the friendship between two African American artists, a “friendship beyond understanding”. In every article The Harlem Renaissance plays a role.

Rob Perrée tries to answer the questions the friendship evokes.
First published April 2020
Portrait of James Baldwin, 1965 (oil on canvas). Chrysler Museum of Art Collection, Museum

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