Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

Ankrum Gallery Records, 1960–1990

arco Center for Visual Art Records, 1976–1984

Dwan Gallery Records, 1959–82

John Outterbridge Papers, 1953–1997

Noah Purifoy Papers, 1935–98

Charles W. White Papers, c. 1930–1982

Woman’s Building Records, 1970–1992

Artists Files, Balch Art Research Library, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Artists Files, Museum of Modern Art Library, New York

Emory University, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Book Library Samella Lewis Papers

Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Special Collections and Visual Resources

New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

New York University, Fales Library and Special Collections

University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library

African American Artists of Los Angeles. Interviews by Karen Anne Mason.

Los Angeles: Oral History Program of the University of California.

Kinshasha Holman Conwill, 1996

Alonzo Davis, 1994

Cecil Fergerson, 1996

Marvin Harden, 1992

Suzanne Jackson, 1998

Samella Lewis, 1995

John Outterbridge, 1993

William Pajaud, 1993

Noah Purifoy, 1992

John Riddle, 2000

Betye Saar, 1996

Curtis Tann, 1995

Ruth Waddy, 1993

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Bruce Conner: “Oral History Interview with Bruce Conner, 1974 March 29.”

George Herms: Paul Karlstrom, “Oral History Interview with George Herms, 1993 December 8, 10, 13–1994 March 10.”

John Outterbridge: Allen Bassing, “Interview with John Outterbridge, 1973 January 3.”

Charles Wilbert White: “Oral History Interview with Charles Wilbert White, 1965 March 9.”

Various

Maren Hassinger, telephone interview with the author, May 29, 1996.

Los Angeles Art Community: Edward Kienholz, interviewed by James Weschler. Los Angeles: Oral History Program of the University of California, 1976.

Samella Lewis, interviewed by Richard Cándida Smith. Samella Lewis: Image and Belief. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute for the Arts and Humanities, 1999.

Miriam Matthews, interviewed by Eleanor Roberts, March 14, 16, 17, and 22, 1977, in Ruth Edmonds Hill, ed., The Black Women Oral History Project, vol. 7, The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College. Westport, CT: Meckler, 1991.

Evangeline Juliette (E. J.) Montgomery, interview with the author, May 18, 2003.

Senga Nengudi, telephone interview with the author, June 3, 1996.