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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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A Dream Deferred: The Art and Activism of Edwin Augustus Harleston

A Dream Deferred: The Art and Activism of Edwin Augustus Harleston

McDaniel, M. Akua

Hardcover

Black American HistoryAmerican Art - African American & BlackIndividual Artists

Publisher Price: $28.99

ISBN10: 1643365592
ISBN13: 9781643365596
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: Jan 13 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.33 Depth: 9.15
Language: English

The first full-length biography of one of South Carolina's most significant African American visual artists

Excluded from the Charleston Renaissance because of his race and pushed to the edges of the Harlem Renaissance by geography and circumstance, Edwin Augustus Harleston was an artist caught between worlds. Despite being marginalized within his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, during his lifetime, Harleston nonetheless pursued his career as a painter, first at Charleston's Avery Institute, later at Atlanta University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Harleston received commissions and had gallery exhibitions that received critical praise in northern cities. When the demands of family pulled him back to Charleston, where he struggled to find the same freedom or acclaim that he had enjoyed in the North.

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