Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Ashley Bryan & Langston Hughes: Sail Away

  • Off to Sea

    Ashley Bryan (1923–2022)
    Water-Front Streets (from Sail Away), 2015
    Collage of cut colored papers with graphite and printed text mounted on a tracing paper overlay
    The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of the Ashley Bryan Center; 2021.25:5

    Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (p) 1955. Used by permission.
    © 2022 The Ashley Bryan Center. Used with Permission. All Rights Reserved

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  • Roll, Jordan, Roll

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  • Seascapes and Sailors

    Ashley Bryan (1923–2022)
    Seascape (from Sail Away), 2015
    Collage of cut colored and painted papers with graphite and printed text mounted on a tracing paper overlay
    The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of the Ashley Bryan Center; 2021.25:6

    Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (p) 1955. Used by permission.
    © 2022 The Ashley Bryan Center. Used with Permission.

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  • Set Sail: Ashley Bryan and Langston Hughes Family Workshop

    Sunday, October 16, 2022, 10:00 am–11:30 am

    Take a special tour of Ashley Bryan & Langston Hughes: Sail Away  while the galleries are closed to the public and discover how these Black artists were inspired by the imagery of water. Simon Levenson, National Arts Club drawing instructor, will guide families as they work together to compose an original poem and illustrate it with a unique collage.

  • Sounds of the Deep

    Langston Hughes (1901–1967)
    The First Book of the West Indies
    Illustrations by Robert Bruce (1911–1980)
    New York: Franklin Watts, 1956
    The Morgan Library & Museum, the Carter Burden Collection of American Literature; PML 181703

    Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (p) 1955. Used by permission.

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  • The Negro Speaks of Rivers

    Ashley Bryan (1923–2022)
    The Negro Speaks of Rivers (from Sail Away), 2015
    Collage of cut colored papers with graphite and printed text mounted on a tracing paper overlay
    The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of the Ashley Bryan Center; 2021.25:17

    © 2022 The Ashley Bryan Center. Used with Permission. All Rights Reserved.

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  • Trip: San Francisco

    Ashley Bryan (1923–2022)
    Trip: San Francisco (from Sail Away), 2015
    Collage of cut colored papers with graphite and printed text mounted on a tracing paper overlay
    The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of the Ashley Bryan Center; 2021.25:15

    Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. (p) 1990. Used by permission.
    © 2022 The Ashley Bryan Center. Used with Permission.

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  • Two Poems by Nikki Giovanni

    Ashley Bryan (1923–2022)
    Cover for The Sun Is So Quiet, 1995
    Tempera and gouache
    University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Ashley Bryan Papers

    Copyright(c) 2017 by Nikki Giovanni. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
    © 2022 The Ashley Bryan Center. Used with Permission. All Rights Reserved

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  • What Is A Jumbie?

    Susan Cooper (b. 1935)
    Jethro and the Jumbie
    Illustrations by Ashley Bryan (1923–2022)
    New York: Atheneum, 1979
    The Morgan Library & Museum, Purchased On The Edwin V. Erbe Jr. Acquisitions Fund, 2022; PML 198770

    © 2022 The Ashley Bryan Center. Used with Permission.

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  • Words Like Freedom

    Ashley Bryan (1923–2022)
    F (for freedom), 1996
    Tempera and gouache
    University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Ashley Bryan Papers

    © 2022 The Ashley Bryan Center. Used with Permission.

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