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Worked with Selena, sections I did were: Early Life and Education, Awards and Nominations, Added Information box on right, Cleaned up reference area, added to external links.

Early life and education
Richard J. Powell was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 31, 1953. Powell graduated from Moorhouse College with a B.A. in art in 1975, and from Howard University with a M.F.A. in printmaking in 1977. Powell also went on to recieve a Ph.D in art history at Yale University in 1988. He is the John Spencer Bassett Professor of Art & Art History at Duke University where he's been teaching at the institution since 1989.

Awards and Nominations

 * 2019 Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professorship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
 * 2017 James S. Ackerman Scholar in Residence, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
 * 2016 Spirit of the Center Award, Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture
 * 2016 France Distinguished Scholar Session Honoree, College Art Association
 * 2013 Lawrence A. Fleischman Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Field of American Art History, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
 * 2009 Wilbur Cross Medal for Distinguished Alumni, Yale University
 * 2007 The Voyager Foundation, Publication Subvention Grant
 * 2005 Humanitarian Award, National Conference of Artists
 * 1995 Fellowship, National Humanities Center
 * 1995 Ford Foundation Fellowships/Postdoctoral, National Academies
 * 1992 Fellowships for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities
 * 1986 Ford Foundation Fellowships/Dissertation, National Academies

Books

 * Powell, Richard J. Going There Black Visual Satire (Accepted). Richard D. Cohen Lectures on A, 2020.
 * Powell, Richard. 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. Ras Ishi/Secret Diaries. Miller Publishing Company, Ltd., 2009.
 * Powell, Richard J. Who Am I in This Picture? Amherst College Portraits. Amherst College, 2009.
 * Powell, R. J. Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
 * Powell, R. J. Circle Dance: The Art of John T. Scott. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2005.
 * Powell, R. J. Black Art: A Cultural History. London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 2002.
 * Powell, R. J. Beauford Delaney: The Color Yellow. Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2002.
 * Powell, R. J. To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
 * Powell, R. J. Jacob Lawrence. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1992.
 * Powell, R. J. Homecoming: The Art and Life of William H. Johnson. New York: W. W. Norton, 1991.
 * Powell, R. J. From the Potomac to the Anacostia: Art and Ideology in the Washington Area. Washington, DC: Washington Project for the Arts, 1989.
 * Powell, R. J. James Lesesne Wells: Sixty Years in Art. Washington, DC: Washington Project for the Arts, 1986.
 * Powell, R. J. Rhapsodies in Black: The Art of the Harlem Renaissance. Berkeley: University of California Press, n.d.



Academic Articles

 * Powell, Richard J. “The Brown Paper Bag Test.” Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 2018, no. 42–43 (November 1, 2018): 234–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-7185905.
 * Oliver, V. C., and R. J. Powell. “Reminiscing: Valerie Cassel Oliver and Richard J. Powell in conversation.” Callaloo 40, no. 5 (January 1, 2017): 53–162. https://doi.org/10.1353/cal.2017.0167.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Who’s Zoomin’ Who?: The Eyes of Donyale Luna.” Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016, no. 38–39 (November 2016): 14–21. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-3641634.
 * 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.
 * 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, no. 2 (December 31, 2015): 81–94. https://doi.org/10.4000/perspective.6159.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Emancipation and the Freed in American Sculpture.” Art Bulletin 95, no. 4 (December 2013): 646–49.
 * 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, R. J. “On Alain Locke and James Porter.” Hatch Billops Collection, Inc./Artist and Influence 11 (1998): 1–8.
 * Powell, Richard J. “Cinqué: Antislavery Portraiture and Patronage in Jacksonian America.” American Art 11, no. 3 (October 1997): 49–73. https://doi.org/10.1086/424304.
 * POWELL, R. J. “ART, HISTORY, AND VISION.” Art Bulletin 77, no. 3 (September 1995): 379–82.
 * Powell, R. J. “Art of the Harlem Renaissance.” Art Bulletin 77 (September 1, 1995): 132–37.
 * Powell, R. J. “The Subject in/of Art History.” The Art Bulletin 77, no. 3 (September 1, 1995): 515. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.1995.10786651.
 * POWELL, R. J. “IMAGES AND IDENTITIES + EDITORIAL - A BRIEF, INTRODUCTORY NOTE.” International Review of African American Art 11, no. 3 (1994): 6–6.
 * Powell, R. J. “The Art of Raymond Saunders: Colored.” New Observations 97 (1993): 10–15.
 * Powell, R. 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 5, no. 4 (October 1991): 21–33. https://doi.org/10.1086/424127.
 * Powell, R. 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 20, no. 4 (1986): 393–393. https://doi.org/10.2307/2904438.
 * Powell, R. 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 18, no. 2 (February 1985): 24–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/3336186.
 * Powell, R. J. “Black Folk in America, 1930-1980.” Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin, 1984, 11–18.
 * Powell, R. J. “Current Expressions in Afro-American Printmaking.” Printnews 3 (April 1981).
 * Powell, R. J. “The Afro-American Printmaking Tradition.” Printnews 3 (February 1981): 3–7.
 * Powell, R. J. “9/9.” The New Art Examiner 7 (June 1980): 10–11.
 * Powell, R. J. “Houston Conwill.” Neworld, February 1979.
 * Powell, R. J. “Talking to James Lesesne Wells.” Print Review 9 (1979): 65–75.
 * Powell, R. J. “Images and Identities: A Brief, Introductory Note.” The International Review of African American Art 11, no. 3 (n.d.): 6–6.
 * Powell, R. J. “Journeying Beyond: The Prints and Paintings of Joyce Wellman.” The International Review of African American Art 10, no. 3 (n.d.).