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Barnwell, Andrea D., Kristen P. Buick et al. “A Portfolio of Works by African American Artists Continuing the Dialogue: A Work Progress.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 24, no. 2 (1999): 180-219 + 265-267.

Bearden, Romare, Harry Henderson. Six Black Masters of American Art. New York: Zenith Books, 1972.

Bearden, Romare, Harry Henderson. A History of African-American Artists. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993.

Bryan, Jennifer, and Robert Torchia. "The Mysterious Portraitist Joshua Johnson." Archives of American Art Journal 36, no. 2 (1996): 2-7.

Czestochowski, Joseph S. and Sherry Case Maurer. Three Nineteenth Century Afro-American Artists: Joshua Johnston (c 1765-1830), Robert S. Duncanson (1821-1872), Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937). Cedar Rapids, Iowa: Cedar Rapids Art Center, 1980.

Driskell, David C. Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art, 1800-1950. San Francisco, CA: The Art Museum Association of America, 1985.

Gold, Susanna W. “Recovering Identity: Nineteenth-Century African American Portraiture.” American Quarterly, v. 58, n. 4, December 2006 pp. 1167-1189 (review).

Greene, Carroll. “The Search for Joshua Johnson: Early America’s Black Portrait Painter.” American Visions 3 (1) (1988): 14-19.
Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe. Sharing Traditions: Five Black Artists in America. Exh. cat. National Museum of American Art, traveling exhibition. Washington, 1985.

Lewis, Samella. African American Art and Artists. Berkely, California: University of California Press, 1990.

McElroy, Guy C. Facing History: The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940. San Francisco, CA: Bedford Arts, Publishers, 1990.

Metcalf, Eugene W. “Black Art, Folk Art, and Social Control”. Winterthur Portfolio, V. 18 N. 4 (Winter, 1983). Pp. 271-289. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Novick, Peter. That Noble Dream: The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Perry, Mary Lynn. "Joshua Johnson: His Historical Context and His Art." M.A. thesis, George Washington University, 1983.

Pleasants, J. Hall. "An Early Baltimore Negro Portrait Painter: Joshua Johnson." The Walpole Society Notebook, 1940.

Pleasants, J. Hall. Catalogue: An Exhibition of Portraits by Joshua Johnston. Baltimore: The Peale Museum, 1948.

Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois. Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century. Andover, Massachusetts: Addison Gallery of American Art, 2006.

Vendryes, Margaret Rose. “Race Identity/Identifying Race: Robert S. Duncanson and Nineteenth-Century American Painting.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, no. 1 (2001): 82-99 + 103-104.

Weekley, Carolyn J., Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Leroy Graham, and Mary Ellen Hayward. Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter. Baltimore, Maryland: Maryland Historical Society, The Museum and Library of Maryland History, 1987.

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