Edmund Barry Gaither gives a gallery talk in “Afro-American Artists: New York and Boston,” 1970

A crowd of people surround a man gesticulating with his arms as he stands and speaks in front of a wall of paintings.

Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists records (M042). Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections, Boston, Massachusetts. Box 26, Folder 3.
 

“Afro American Artists” was curated by Edmund Barry Gaither, then the newly appointed director and curator of the Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and a special consultant to the MFA.