October Gallery Ad in Black Enterprise Magazine 1989
October Gallery Ad in Black Enterprise Magazine 1989
Black Art Finds Its Own Space More Galleries Are Showing It, More People Are Buying It And Philadelphia Just Might Be Emerging As Its “National Mecca.”
Lucien Crump Art Gallery By Alexis Moore, Inquirer Staff Writer POSTED: August 14, 1989 Ten years ago, Germantown’s Lucien Crump, artist, educator and entrepreneur, could have communicated with all of Philadelphia’s black art- gallery owners by talking to a mirror. These days, Crump has at least six competitors with galleries devoted to the work of …
Black Artists: Painted Into A Corner? Some Say Racism And Ignorance Still Limit Options In The Galleries
By BARBARA BECK, Daily News Staff Writer POSTED: July 20, 1988 Barkley L. Hendricks remembers when he and other fellow artists, all prize- winning graduates of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, were hanging their paintings for the school’s final exhibition. A professor at the school approached Hendricks’ work. “This is certainly a black wall,” …
Decor Magazine 1988 – Merchandising Ethnic Art
Reviving The Work Of 2 Black Artists With Ties To The City
By Edward J. Sozanski, Inquirer Art Critic POSTED: March 01, 1987 Black artists in America have been among the most invisible of Ralph Ellison’s “invisible men”; it has been only relatively recently that the best of them have received any meaningful recognition. One is reminded of this poignant circumstance by the experience of two black …
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Art is no Extravagance Published Sunday Sun 1986
Article written by an October Gallery staff member that was published in the Philadelphia Sunday Sun 1986
From A Quiet Still Life To An Action-packed Sports Scene
By Victoria Donohoe, Inquirer Art Critic POSTED: May 23, 1986 Among the current crop of solo exhibits around town, my highest praise goes to the young painter Scott Noel, featured at More Gallery Inc. He’s showing still lifes, paintings of nudes, domestic settings and pictures of recreational sports. Fittingly, Noel’s still lifes are the show’s …
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October Gallery’s first gallery art show and sale 1985. Artist Tom Mckinney.
Clown by Tom Mckinney But Beautiful by Tom Mckinney Street Corner Symphony by Tom Mckinney Tom Mckinney Exhibiting at Expo 15 – 2000