See also:1996 in art, other events of 1997, 1998 in art, list of years in art, List_of_art_events. See also: 1995 in art, other events of 1996, 1997 in art, list of years in art, List_of_art_events. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. ... See also: 1997 in art, other events of 1998, 1999 in art, list of years in art, List_of_art_events. ... This page indexes the individual year in art pages. ... This page indexes the individual year in art pages. ...
The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize, and is the most prominent of all arts prizes, in Australia. ... The Turner Prize is an annual prize given to a British visual artist under 50, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner. ... Gillian Wearing (born 1963) is an English artist. ...
By the first African-American art historian, the "father of Black art history," this is the classic work on the subject, the "first to denote and define the African impulse in the visual arts in the U.S." Porter also arranged the first exhibition of contemporary African art in the U.S. (1951, Howard University).
ART READY REF. Listing Black artists from the colonial period to the present, this source is useful as a biographical work; it cites reproductions that have appeared in books, periodicals and catalogs through 1990, including most media as well as folk art.
ART REF. Ethnicity is indicated in the artist entries; since a large proportion of folk artists are African-American this is an important source.