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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- >----------------------------Original message---------------------------- I don't remember the names, but I did find several Native American & gay & lesbian artists missing. (and some of our faculty, but they are not nearly as famous as Bearden or Lawrence) csj >Ray Anne Lockard's question about the Dictionary of Art reminds me of a >puzzling discovery I made the other day about that estimable work: the absence >of some major living or recent African-American artists. Romare Bearden isn't >there, Jacob Lawrence isn't, Martin Puryear isn't -- have others noticed >omissions? Certainly they seem regrettable in a work which has aimed at broad >inclusiveness, even if one grants that Americans may have different >estimations >of our own artists' importance than the rest of the world. > >Bill Lang >Art Department, The Free Library of Philadelphia