Avel de Knight: Drawings for Army Life in a Black Regiment
Aug
24
2011
Thru
Apr
04
2012
Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center
The exhibition features a series of twenty-two illustrations by African American artist Avel de Knight (1921-1995) created for a never-published version of the book Army Life in a Black Regiment written in 1870 by New England abolitionist, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (American, 1823-1911). Army Life recounts Higginson’s experience as a white commander of the Union’s first official regiment comprised of escaped slaves during the Civil War. De Knight’s illustrations, created in pen and ink with ink wash on paper, convey the strength and bravery of the African American Civil War soldiers.