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ORAL NARRATIONS
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Tritobia Benjamin, Ph.D.

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Serving as a study and research facility for the University and scholarly community at large, the Howard University Gallery of Art offers rotating exhibitions of national and international artists, augmented with selections from the permanent collection in the galleries named for the first directors, James V. Herring and James A. Porter, and the eminent professors Lois Mailou Jones and James Lesesne Wells. The Irving Gumbel collection of prints by European etchers, engravers, mezzotinters, and wood engravers of the 16th to 19th centuries was donated in 1963. This collection, approximately 350 works on paper, contains prints by Rembrandt, Jacques Callot, Wenceslaus Hollar, and engravers such as Heinrich Goltzius, Lucas van Leyden, the German “Little Masters”, and many others. In 1990, 121 works from the Mrs. Beatrice Cummings Mayer of Chicago were donated to the collection in memory of her late husband, Robert Mayer. This gift expanded the holdings to include work from Central and South Africa. The Howard University Gallery of Art’s collection has grown to over 4,500 works. Its director is Dr. Tritobia Haynes Benjamin, a graduate of Howard University, a Professor of Art History, and Associate Dean of the Division of Fine Arts in the College of Arts and Sciences.
    

Ribbon cutting, 1961 Howard University Gallery of Art Professor James A. Porter, Mrs. James Nabrit, President James M. Nabrit Jr., and Mrs. Dorothy Porter.
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