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Contributions to Porter Page:

- Porter in Haiti, Porter in Africa, Porter as teacher

Porter as Teacher:

David Driskell, one of Porter's students at Howard, recalled in an interview with Xavier Nicholas that he was the only student in his "Negro Art" class one semester but "He taught that course as though he had a hundred students there, and I was the only one." "James A. Porter." Callaloo, vol. 39 no. 5, 2016, p. 1049-1120. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cal.2016.0145.

paintings: elegantly realistic, detached, academic but after trip to Africa his work transformed into a more expressionistic style. Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson in A History of African American Artists (1993) James A. Porter." Callaloo, vol. 39 no. 5, 2016, p. 1049-1120. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cal.2016.0145.

Porter

3-5 articles to work on:

- Charlotte Osgood Mason features only biography section, needs to be fleshed out.

- James A. Porter no exploration of specific pieces, add more about his time abroad in Haiti

- African peoples and Bbjects in American Natural History Museums How they were displayed when generated vs how they are displayed now