William E. Harmon Foundation
"[2] William Harmon, who had for years been making secret philanthropic donations in the guise of his alter ego, "Jedediah Tingle",[3] began his foundation's work with a test of the efficacy of loans vs. scholarships in college education,[4] and outright grants to local municipalities for the purpose of establishing permanent playgrounds.
The foundation was among the first organizations in the United States to promote contemporary African-American and African art, sponsoring travel to Africa to study, exhibit their work and meet other artists.
The foundation faced several controversies during its operation, including: criticism over its perpetuation of racial segregation and paternalism through all-black exhibitions and mostly or all-white juries, with notable condemnation by artist Romare Bearden;[6] unsubstantiated allegations made by several black artists and scholars that it received funding from the State Department as part of the agency's anti-Communist cultural programs during the Cold War;[8] and public disputes over director Mary Brady's decision to remove portraits of W. E. B.
Among the many recipients of the awards were Hale Woodruff, Palmer Hayden, Archibald Motley (his winning piece was The Octoroon Girl), Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes.
$100 $100 $100 $100 Other artists participating in the "1933 Exhibition of the Work of Negro Artists" included artists, James Lesesne Wells (bronze medal for most representative work in black and white), Charles Henry Anderson, Frederick Cornelius Alston, Pastor Argudin y Pedroso, William Artis, George Edward Bailey, Mike Bannarn, Richmond Barthé, Humphreys William Becket, James Bland, Samuel Ellis Blount, David P. Boyd, Cloyd L. Boykin, Edward J. Brandford, William E. Braxton, Daisy Brooks, Mabel Brooks, Samuel Joseph Worthington Brown, Eugene Burkes, William A. Cooper, Samuel A. Countee, Allan Crite, Charles C. Dawson, Beauford Delaney, Arthur Diggs, Frank J. Dillon, Lilian Dorsey, Aaron Douglas, Robert S. Duncanson, Ferdinand W. Ellington, William McKnight Farrow, Elton Fax, Allan Randall Freelon, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Otis Galbreath, William Goss, William E. Grant, Ruth Gray, Constance Willard Grayson, John Hailstalk, John W. Hardrick, Edwin Harleston, John Taylor Harris, Anzola D. Laird Hegomin, James V. Herring, Clifton Hill, Jesse Mae Housley, May Howard Jackson, J. Antonio Jarvis, Cornelius W. Johnson, George H. Benjamin Johnson, Gertrude Johnson, Gladys L. Johnson, Malvin Gray Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Archie Jones, Henry Bozeman Jones, Vivian Schuyler Key, Benjamin Kitchin, Richard W. Lindsey, Romeyn Van Vleck Lippmann, Howard H. Mackey, Harold E. Marshall, Effie Mason, Helen Mason, Samuel E. MacAlpine, Edward T. McDowell, Susie McIver, C.G.
McKenzie, Elenor McLaren, Archibald Motley, Richard Bruce Nugent, Allison Oglesby, Maude Owens, Suzanne Ogunjami Wilson, Kenneth R. O'Neal, Elenor E. Paul, John Phillipis, Philip Leo Pierre, Robert Pious, Celestine Gustava Johnson Pope, James Porter, Elizabeth Prophet, Oliver Reid, Teodoro Ramos Blanco y Penita, Charles A. Robinson, Augusta Savage, William Edouard Scott, Albert A. Smith, Walter W. Smith, Charles Spears Jr., Teressa Simpson Staats, Jesse Stubbs, Mary Lee Tate, Ulysses S. Grant Tayes, Daniel Tillman, John E. Toodles, Laura Wheeler Waring, James Lesesne Wells, Simeon Sir Henry Williams, Ellis Wilson, Arthur Glenn Winslow, and Hale Woodruff.
