Bibliography
“‘… and More Gently Still’: A Myth.” Trend: A Quarterly of the Seven Arts 1 (June–July– August 1932): 53–54.
Beyond Where the Stars Stood Still. New York: Warren Marr II, n.d. [1945]. Illustrated with drawings by Richard Bruce Nugent. Reprinted, with the corrected title “Beyond Where the Star Stood Still,” in Crisis 77 (December 1970): 405–8. One of the illustrations, “Carus,” is reproduced in Kalaidjian, American Culture between the Wars, 93.
“Cavalier” [Richard Bruce, pseud.]. In Caroling Dusk, edited by Countee Cullen, 205–6. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1927.
“The Dark Tower” [by Richard Bruce, pseud.]. Opportunity 5 (October 1927): 305–6.
“An Interview with Bruce Nugent: Actor, Artist,Writer, Dancer.” By James V. Hatch. In Artists and Influences, edited by Camille Billops and James V. Hatch, 81–104. New York: Hatch-Billops Collection, 1982.
Interview by Jean Blackwell Hutson. Videotape, 14 April 1982. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City.
Interview by Jeff Kisseloff. In You Must Remember This: An Oral History of Manhattan from the 1890s to World War II, edited by Jeff Kisseloff, 282–300. NewYork: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989.
Interview by Jewelle L.Gomez. For Before Stonewall, produced by John Scagliotti, directed by Greta Schiller and Robert Rosenberg. Cinema Guild CG 102, 1986. 87 min. Videocasette. Interview transcript, 17 April 1983. Photocopy. Collection of Thomas H. Wirth.
Interviews by Thomas H. Wirth. Tape recordings, 19 June 1983 – 5 September 1983. Collections of Thomas H. Wirth and Schomburg Center.
“Lighting FIRE!!” Insert in a facsimile edition of FIRE!! Metuchen, N.J.: FIRE!! Press, 1982.
“Marshall’s: A Portrait.” Phylon 5 (Fourth Quarter 1944): 316–18.
“My Love.” Palms 4 (October 1926): 20.
“Narcissus.” Trend: A Quarterly of the Seven Arts 1 (January–February– March , 1933): 127.
“The Now Discordant Song of Bells.” Wooster Review 9 (spring 1989): 34–42.
“Pope Pius the Only.” Challenge 2 (spring 1937): 15–18.
“Richard Bruce.” In Caroling Dusk, edited by Countee Cullen, 205–6. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1927.
“Sahdji.” In The New Negro, edited by Alain Locke, 113–14. New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1925. Reprinted in Peplow and Davis, The New Negro Renaissance, 209–11.
“Sahdji: An African Ballet” [Richard Bruce, pseud.]. In Plays of Negro Life: A Sourcebook of Native American Drama, edited by Alain Locke and Montgomery Gregory, 387–400. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1927.
“Scheme.” [Gary George, pseud.]. Challenge 1 (January 1936): 30–31.
“Shadow” [Richard Bruce, pseud.]. In Opportunity 3 (October 1925): 296. Reprinted in Cullen, Caroling Dusk, 206–7, and in Pool and Bremen, Ik Zag Hoe Zwart Ik Was, 122–23.
“Smoke, Lilies and Jade” [Richard Bruce, pseud.]. FIRE!! 1 (November 1926): 33–39. Reprinted in Huggins, Voices from the Harlem Renaissance, 99–110; Smith, Black Men, White Men, 17–30; Lewis, The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, 569–83; Ruff, Go the Way Your Blood Beats, 205–221; and, with an introduction by Samuel R. Delany, in James White Review 16 (winter 1999): 21–26.
“What Price Glory in Uncle Tom’s Cabin” [Richard Bruce, pseud.]. Harlem 1 (November 1928): 25–26.
RICHARD BRUCE NUGENT: IMAGES
Drawing of male head. Opportunity 4 (March 1926): cover. Reproduced in Print 52 (May/June 1998): 61.
Two drawings. FIRE!! 1 (November 1926): 4, 24. The drawing on p. 4 is reproduced in Print 52 (May/June 1998): 58. The drawing on p. 24 is reproduced in Kaladjian, American Culture Between the Wars, 96, and on the endpapers of Watson, The Harlem Renaissance.
Illustrations, “Jazz—A Stepping Stone,” byFrederick Millar. American Monthly (April 1927): 35–36.
Drawing. Opportunity 5 (August 1927): 227.
Illustrations, “Lawrence Avenue,” by James T. Logan. Opportunity 5 (August 1927): 232–35.
Illustrations, “Game,” by Eugene Gordon. Opportunity 5 (September 1927): 264.
Drawing (Male Head). Opportunity 5 (October 1927): 289.
Illustrations, “Negro Life in New York’s Harlem,” by Wallace Thurman. Haldeman-Julius Quarterly 2 (October-November–December 1927): 132–45.
Drawings (Male Heads). Ebony and Topaz: A Collectanea, edited by Charles S. Johnson, [7], [8], 46, 114, 166. New York: Opportunity/National Urban League, 1927.
Drawings for Mulattoes. Ebony and Topaz: A Collectanea, edited by Charles S. Johnson, 103–6. New York: Opportunity/National Urban League, 1927. Reproduced in Gubar, Racechanges, 108–11, dustjacket. Numbers 2 and 3 of this series are reproduced in Kaladjian, American Culture between the Wars, 71, 72. Number 3 appears in Watson, The Harlem Renaissance, free front endpaper; in Kaladjian, American Culture between the Wars; cover in McClendon, The Politics of Color, dustjacket; and in Print 52 (May/June 1998): 61.
Illustration (Lynching Victim), “Black Gum,” by William V. Kelley. Opportunity 6 (January 1928): 13.
Illustrations, “Harlem’s Place in the Sun,” by Wallace Thurman. Dance Magazine 10 (May 1928): 23, 54. Three of the illustrations are reproduced in Watson, The Harlem Renaissance, 59.
Salome. Harlem 1 (November 1928): 28.
Illustration, “Cease Nudging Nevermore,” by Octave Lilly, Jr. Crisis 77 (February 1970): 48.
Frankincense. Crisis 78 (December 1971): cover.
Drawing (Women Dancing). Black American Literature Forum 19 (spring 1985): 17. Also in Print 52 (May/June 1998): 61.
Drawing (Two Women Dancing). Steven Watson. The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920–1930, 153. New York: Pantheon Books, 1995.
Drawing (Woman with Green Hair, Salome Series). On the cover of Pagan Operetta, by Carl Hancock Rux. New York: Fly by Night Press, 1998. Also in Print 52 (May/June 1998): 57.
Two drawings from the Salome Series. Art Journal 57 (fall 1998): 22, 26.
David and Goliath. Art Journal 57 (fall 1998): 28.
Smoke, Lilies and Jade. In To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, edited by Richard J. Powell and Jock Reynolds, 217. Andover/New York/Cambridge: Phillips Academy/Studio Museum in Harlem/MIT Press, 1999.
Untitled twelve images. Transition 11 (2001): 89–106.
ARTICLES ABOUT NUGENT
SECONDARY RESOURCES
Looking for Langston. Directed by Isaac Julien. 45 min. Water Bearer Films WBF8030, 1989. Videocassette.
ARCHIVES
Carrington, Glenn. Papers. Moorland-Springarn Research Center. Howard University, Washington D.C.
Cullen, Countee. Papers. Amistad Research Center. Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Gumby, L. S. Alexander. Scrapbooks. Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Columbia University, New York.
Locke, Alain. Papers. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. Howard University, Washington, D. C.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York.
Van Vechten, Carl. Papers. Manuscript Division, New York Public Library.
Van Vechten, Carl. Papers. Nugent Correspondence. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Wirth, Thomas Private H. Collection. Elizabeth, New Jersey.