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Born 1893, Griffin, Georgia; died 1965, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1933 First Harmon Foundation Exhibition
1938 WPA Prints Philadelphia Museum of Art
1939 New York World's Fair
1942 Howard University (solo)
1944 Philadelphia Art Alliance (solo)
1945 The Pyramid Club (solo)
1948 Smithsonian Institute (solo)
1970 James A. Porter Gallery
1987 Philadelphia Free Library (solo)
1989 Dolan/Maxwell Gallery (solo)
1995 National Museum of American Art
1994-97 Alone in a Crowd: Prints by African Americans from the Collection of Dave & Reba Williams (traveling Museum Exhibition)
1994-95 The Harriet & Harmon Kelley Collection of African American Art, organized by the San Antonio Museum of Art
1997 Prized Impressions: Gifts from the Print Center of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1998 Major Prints Dolan/Maxwell at the National Black Fine Art Show, New York City
2000 An Exuberant Bounty: Prints and Drawings by African Americans, Philadelphia Museum of Art
2001-03 Dox Thrash: African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago & St. Louis Art Museum (solo)
2003 African American Artists, 1929-1945, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Baltimore Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mary and Leigh Block Gallery
The New York Public Library
British Museum
Smithsonian Museum
Bryn Mawr College
PA Academy of Fine Arts
Cleveland Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Free Library of Philadelphia
St Louis Museum of Art
Grinnell College
University of Georgia Art Museum
Independence Seaport Museum
Telfair Art Museum
Library of Congress
Whitney Museum of Art
Lincoln University
Wolfsonian Foundation
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
-Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930’s and 1940’s by African American Artists from the collection of Dave & Reba Williams, Washburn Press, 1993
-Beardon, Romare, and Harry Henderson, A History of African American Artists from 1792 to the Present, NY, Pantheon, 1993
-The Harriet and Harmon Kelley Collection of African American Art, San Antonio
Museum of Art, 1994
-Porter, James A., Modern Negro Art, 3rd Ed.,Washington, DC, Howard University
Press, 1992
-Locke, Alain, The Negro in Art, Washington, DC, Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1940
-Thrash, Dox, History of My Life, in Ruth Fine, Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art (exhibition catalogue), Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976
-U.S. Works Projects Administration, The Carborundum Print, WPA Technical Series, Art Circular No. 5, Washington, DC, 1940
-Bridging Identities: Dox Thrash as African American and Artist, Smithsonian Studies in American Art, Vol. 4, No. 2, Spring 1990
-Ittmann, John, Dox Thrash–African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered University of Washington Press and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Fall 2001
-Messinger, Lisa, African American Artists, 1929-1945, University of Yale Press and Metropolitan Museum of Art, Winter 2003