Museum Studies, published twice annually, presents articles on the collections and history of the Art Institute. This special, expanded issue focuses on the museum's increasing selection of African Amerian art. An examination of the Art Institutes's striking daguerreotype of Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass is followed by two essays discussing the work of seminal, Chicago-based artists: the complex, engaging paintings of Archibald J. Motley, Jr., and the impassioned sculpture of Marion Perkins.

Volume 24, No. 2 of the Museum Studies periodical from The Art Institute of Chicago.