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organizer. Exhibition of the Art of the American Negro (1851 to 1940) [cover title]. Numerous reproductions. Small 4to, original wrappers, front cover with a reproduction of a painting by Charles White. (Chicago, 1940) inscribed and signed by alonzo aden on the front cover. Aden was curator of the Tanner Gallery where this exhibition was mounted. Aden became curator of Howard University's Gallery of Art in 1940 and opened the Barnett-Aden Gallery in Washington, D.C. in 1943.