Avel de Knight

american artist

Selected Bibliography

“Two GIs Go Back to Paris”
Ebony Magazine, vol. 2, March 1947, pp. 16–18
“Who’s News”
Art Digest, vol. 15, November 1953
“Reviews and Previews: Avel de Knight”
Art News, vol. 55, March 1960, p. 52
“Galleries Cross Country”
Art News, vol. 59, March 1960, pp. 52–53
“Art: Russia-Bound Artist”
Jet, vol. 20, no. 1, June 1961, p. 48
“Review and Previews: Avel de Knight”
Rosalind Brown, Art News, vol. 67, November 1968, p. 13
“Artists in the Art News”
Art News, vol. 68, March 1969, p. 6
Who’s Who in American Art
Published by Bowker, 1970
“Checklist of Afro-American Art and Artists”
Ralph Harley, Jr., The Serif, December 1970
“In the American Grain”
Frederick Van Almelo, Boston After Dark, May 26, 1970
“Black Art on Display”
Caron Lebrun, Boston Herald Traveler, May 26, 1970
“The Black Artist”
Harry Poloski, Ernest Kaiser, and Otto Lindenmeyer, Reference Library of Black America, vol. 4, 1971
Directory of African-American Resources
Walter Schatz, New York, Bowker, 1970
Contemporary Black Artist
Ruder and Finn Fine Arts, 1969
Black Power in the Arts
Carol L. Meyers, Flint, Michigan, 1970
“Wealth of Expression in Black Artists”
Alvin Hollingsworth, Rhode Island School of Design exhibition, Providence Sunday Journal, June 29, 1969
“A Big Brilliant and Exciting Exhibition of Black Art”
Joseph Haas, Chicago Daily News, January 16–17, 1971
“Eye on New York”
Art Gallery, vol. 17, November 1973, pp. 63–65 (illustrated)
“Watercolor Page: Avel de Knight”
American Artist, September 1976, pp. 44–47 (illustrated)
“Reviews and Previews”
Laurie Anderson, Art News, vol. 70, November 1977, p. 12
“Avel C. de Knight”
Karl Lunde, Arts, vol. 52, November 1977, p. 11 (illustrated)
Interview with Henri Ghent
Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, 30 minutes
“Mask and Mirage”
Exhibit catalog and essay by Lowery S. Sims, Associate Curator 20th Century Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 1980
“Interview”
Black Art: an International Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 1, Cover Reproduction of Halo of Memory with text and interview by editor Val Spaulding. 8 color reproductions, 6 black and white
“Avel C. de Knight”
Frank Martin, St. James Guide to Black Artists, St. James Press in Association with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1998 pp. 135–136
Myth and Mirage: The Art of Avel de Knight
Richard Waller, Essay in retrospective exhibition catalog, University of Richmond Museums, 2001
“Visions Beyond: The Artistic Legacy of Avel de Knight”
Stephen J. Tyson, Essay in Myth and Mirage: The Art of Avel de Knight, University of Richmond Museums, 2001