Roy DeCarava (American, –2009)

Timeline

1919
born in Harlem, New York
1934–1938
attended Textile High School, New York
1938–1940
attended The Cooper Union School of Art, New York
1940–1942
attended Harlem Community Arts Center, New York
1944–1945
attended George Washington Carver Art School, New York
2009
died in New York, New York

Exhibitions

2019
Roy DeCarava Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
Roy DeCarava: The Work of Art, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles (solo exhibition)
2017–2019
Roy DeCarava Selected Exhibitions in 2017-2019:
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Tate Modern, London [itinerary: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; Brooklyn Museum, New York] [catalogue]
2015
Roy DeCarava Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Public Collections

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Modena, Italy
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York
Hallmark Art Collection, Kansas City, Missouri
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Minneapolis Insitute of Art, Minnesota
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Illinois.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Canada, Ontario
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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