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The Work and life of

Tecla Selnick

The Work and life of

Tecla Selnick

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We are in the process of cataloging and photographing Tecla's works. Besides family held works, we are collecting photographs of privately held works, as well as works that were donated to the Schomburg Institute. View Gallery

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Tecla lived an amazing life. We are establishing a timeline of significant events from her lifetime.

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1949

Tecla works with the group who organized Paul Robeson's 1949 concert which caused the Peekskill Riot. [INFO]

1954 - McCarthyism

Tecla is named in an FBI investigation of film and TV screenwriter Millard Lampell, who established the Almanac Singers with Pete Seeger. [INFO]

1956

An exhibition of prints by artists interested in the continuance of Robert Blackburn's
Creative Graphic Arts Workshop. New York City, at Howard University Gallery of Art. Organized to run as a non-profit, experimental studio, the Workshop owes its existence to the active support of the artists. Forty-eight lithographs, etchings, engravings and woodcuts, many in colors, by more than 40 artists, compose a show primarily contemporary in idiom. But it is a true cross-section of work produced, as Blackburn himself says in his introductory note to the catalogue, which also has a comprehensive foreword by Jacob Kainen, curator of the Division of Graphic Arts. Smithsonian Institution. There are some outstanding traditional prints, among them Ernest Critchlow's portrait of a wistful Negro child: Charles White's velvety head “Gideon”; Milton Glaser's “Girl and Bird” with its interesting textures: Teckla Selnick's meditative woman in a hospital bed; and Margaret Cogswell’s "Boats at Harbor,” all black and white lithographs. [INFO]

1966 - Group show with alice neel and benny andrew

Took place at New York City's Countee Cullen Library

1969 - Working with Benny Andrews

In January, the BECC is organized to protest Harlem On My Mind at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Andrews is elected as one of its three co-chairs with Henri Ghent and John Sadler. Andrews and the BECC picket the exhibition’s opening for several days. Romare Bearden (1911-1988), Norman Lewis, Roy DeCarava (1919-2009), Tom Lloyd, Reginald Gammon, Earl Miller (1930 -2003), Richard Mayhew (b.1924), Calvin Douglass (b.1931), Felrath Hines (1913-1993), Russ Thompson (b.1922), Frank Sharpe (b.1942), Vivian Browne (1929-1993), Mahler Ryder (1937-1992) and Karen Ryder, Charles Creary, Raymond Saunders (b.1934), Barbara Carter, Joan Sandler (b.1934), Bill Durante, Tecla Selnick (1909-1983), Zeb and Francesca Burgess, Alice Neel, Raphael Soyer, John Dodds and Mel Roman Ramos (1935-2018), among many. Andrews mentions these protests in his journal entries from January 1969, noting that reporters and museumgoers found interest in the BECC’s actions. Thirty years later, reflecting on the fight against The Metropolitan Museum, Andrews will recall, “We had no money. We had no influence. We had no entree into the White museum structure.” [INFO]

1974 - Group show with Charles White and Anton Refregier

An important exhibit taking place in East Germany. Tecla studied lithography techniques with Charles White. [INFO]

1983

Upon Tecla's untimely passing her family donated the bulk of her remaining works to the Schomburg Center in New York City.

The Work and life of

The Work and life of

About Tecla

Her works

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Her works

her life

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Her works

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1949

1954 - McCarthyism

1956

1966 - Group show with alice neel and benny andrew

1969 - Working with Benny Andrews

1974 - Group show with Charles White and Anton Refregier

1983

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