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 * note: I'm only including sections I specifically worked on after splitting up the work with Steven (sections: Richard J Powell, Career, Publications) and the references. also there does not seem to be any pictures of Powell on wikimedia commons, so the infobox is pretty empty

= Richard J. Powell = Richard J. Powell (b. May 31, 1953) is John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History at Duke University. He has been teaching at the institution since 1989. He has earned a Ph.D. in art history at Yale University in 1988 and as an undergraduate earned a B.A in art at Morehouse College, Atlanta and received an MFA in Printmaking at Howard University in 1977.

Powell is known for his written work focusing on the history of black and African-American art. His volume in the Thames & Hudson's World of Art series, Black Art: A Cultural History (2002) is often credited as a beginning point for students interested in learning about black art history. Other notable works include Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson (1991), Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture (2008) , and Going There: Black Visual Satire (2020).

Exhibitions
In 1980, Powell curated his first exhibition, Impressions/Expressions: Black American Graphics at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Other curated exhibits of his are found in the Phillips Academy’s Addison Gallery of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the London’s Whitechapel Art Gallery, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2014, Powell curated an exhibition at Duke University's Nasher Museum entitled, Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, focused on the Harlem Renaissance painter Archibald Motley's work, specifically his work documenting the nightlife scene. Additionally, Powell has aided in curating several art exhibits such as The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism (1989) and Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist (2014), among several others. These exhibitions, like the rest of his work, typically have a focus on African American art and culture.

Current profession
Richard J. Powell is a professor in African-American art, American art, and race theory. Throughout his career, he has written books on such topics, including James Lesesne Wells: Sixty Years in Art (1986) and his most recent publication Going There: Black Visual Satire (2020), a novel analyzing the use of black minstrelsy in art. Some artists featured in this book are Kara Walker, Donald Glover and Spike Lee. Beyond his novels, Powell works as a professor of art and art history at Duke University, and has been teaching there since 1989. Powell was the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the Center in Spring 2019. He was also briefly editor-in-chief of The Art Journal from 2007 to 2010.

Recognition
For his work, Powell has received prestigious awards numerous times. Such awards include the Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History in 2013 and, more recently, he was honored as the year's Distinguished Scholar at the annual College Art Association conference in 2016.

Powell completed a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in museum education at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and, after a brief teaching stint in Virginia, then entered Yale University, where he received an MA in African American Studies and an MPhil and PhD in the History of Art. While attending Yale, Powell was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, which enabled him to conduct dissertation research in Copenhagen's Nationalmuseet and throughout several Scandinavian countries.

Books

 * Powell, Richard J. Going there: Black visual satire, 2020.
 * Powell, Richard J, and Motley, Archibald J. Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, 2015.
 * Powell, Richard J. African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond. Washington, DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2012.
 * Powell, Richard J, et. al. Ras Ishi/Secret Diaries. Miller Publishing Company, Ltd., 2009.
 * Powell, Richard. J. Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
 * Powell, Richard J, et. al. Circle Dance: The Art of John T. Scott. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
 * Powell, Richard J. Black Art: A Cultural History. London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 2002.
 * Powell, Richard J. Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow. Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2002.
 * Powell, Richard J, et. al. To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
 * Powell, Richard J. Black art and culture in the 20th century. New York, N.Y.: Thames & Hudson, 1997
 * Powell, Richard J. Rhapsodies in Black: The Art of the Harlem Renaissance. London: Hayward Gallery, 1997.
 * Powell, Richard J. Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
 * Powell, Richard J. From the Potomac to the Anacostia: Art and Ideology in the Washington Area. Washington, DC: Washington Project for the Arts, 1989.
 * Powell, Richard J. James Lesesne Wells: Sixty Years in Art. Washington, DC: Washington Project for the Arts, 1986.

Academic Articles

 * Powell, Richard J. "The Brown Paper Bag Test: Hervé Télémaque's Exploded Discourse". Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art. 2018
 * Oliver, V. C., and Richard J. Powell. “Reminiscing: Valerie Cassel Oliver and Richard J. Powell in conversation.” Callaloo, 2017.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Who’s Zoomin’ Who?: The Eyes of Donyale Luna.” Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art, 2016.
 * Oliver, Valerie Cassell, and Richard J. Powell. “"Richard Powell/'Say it Loud': An Interview with Richard Powell by Valerie Cassel Oliver".” Callaloo 38, no. 4 (2016): 985–95.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Rechercher et imaginer l’art «black» américain depuis 2005.” Perspective, 2015.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture.” Art Bulletin 95, 2013.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Freeman Henry Morris Murray: Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture.” The Art Bulletin 95 (December 2013): 646–49.
 * Powell, Richard J. “The Woodshed.” Studies in the History of Art 71 (2011): 199–206.
 * Powell, Richard J. “'Paint That Thing!' Aaron Douglas's Call to Modernism.” American Studies 46 (2010): 107–19.
 * Powell, Richard J. “The Picturesque, Miss Nottage and the Caribbean Sublime.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 25 (February 2008): 157–68.
 * Powell, Richard J. “PAINT IN THE NAME OF LOVE.” International Review of African American Art 22, no. 2 (2008): 64–65.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Linguists, Poets, and ‘Others’ on African American Art.” American Art 17 (March 2003): 16–19.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Appreciation. Jacob Lawrence: Keep on Movin." American Art 15 (March 2001): 90–93.
 * Powell, Richard J. “On Alain Locke and James PorteRichard” Hatch Billops Collection, Inc./Artist and Influence 11 (1998): 1–8.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Cinqué: Antislavery Portraiture and Patronage in Jacksonian America.” American Art, 1997.
 * Powell, Richard J. “ART, HISTORY, AND VISION.” Art Bulletin 77, no. 3 (September 1995): 379–82.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Art of the Harlem Renaissance.” Art Bulletin 77 (September 1, 1995): 132–37.
 * Powell, Richard J. “The Subject in/of Art History.” The Art Bulletin 77, no. 3 (September 1, 1995): 515.
 * Powell, Richard J. “IMAGES AND IDENTITIES + EDITORIAL - A BRIEF, INTRODUCTORY NOTE.” International Review of African American Art 11, no. 3 (1994): 6–6.
 * Powell, Richard J. “The Art of Raymond Saunders: Colored.” New Observations 97 (1993): 10–15.
 * Powell, Richard J. “What Becomes a Legend Most? Reflections on Romare Bearden.” Transition 55 (1992): 62–72.
 * Powell, Richard J. “"In My Family of Primitiveness and Tradition": William H. Johnson's "Jesus and the Three Marys". American Art, 1991.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Margo Humphrey: Interview.” Hatch Billops Collection, Inc./Artist and Influence 5 (1987): 56–65.
 * Powell, Richard J. “William H. Johnson's Minde Kerteminde.” Black American Literature Forum, 1986.
 * Powell, Richard J. “On Exhibit: Black Artists of the Nineteenth Century.” The Chicago Reader, August 16, 1985, 10–11.
 * Powell, Richard J. “African Art at the Field Museum.” African Arts, 1985.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Black Folk in America, 1930-1980.” Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin, 1984, 11–18.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Current Expressions in Afro-American Printmaking.” Printnews 3 (April 1981).
 * Powell, Richard J. “The Afro-American Printmaking Tradition.” Printnews 3 (February 1981): 3–7.
 * Powell, Richard J. “9/9.” The New Art Examiner 7 (June 1980): 10–11.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Houston Conwill.” Neworld, February 1979.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Talking to James Lesesne Wells.” Print Review 9 (1979): 65–75.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Images and Identities: A Brief, Introductory Note.” The International Review of African American Art 11, no. 3 (n.d.): 6–6.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Journeying Beyond: The Prints and Paintings of Joyce Wellman.” The International Review of African American Art 10, no. 3 (n.d.).