Allie McGhee

Allie McGhee (bɛ daa dɔɣi o la yuuni 1941 tiŋ yuli booni Charleston, West Virginia) nyɛla African American nucheeni baŋda ŋun nyɛ pɛnta pɛnta tum yuuni 1960s. Allie McGhee nyɛla ŋun chaŋ Cass Technical High School din be Detroit, MI ka nyɛ ŋun naai Eastern Michigan University yuuni 1965.

Public collections

• Barfield Companies, Livonia, MI
• Detroit Council of the Arts, Detroit, MI
• Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
• Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
• Fondazione Imago Mundi, Treviso, IT
• Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
• Hooven-Dayton Corporation, Dayton, OH
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
• Koichiro Iwasaki, Kagoshima, JP
• Martin Luther King Center, Detroit, MI
• Kohler Corporation, Kohler, WI
• Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
• Mott-Warsh Collections, Flint, MI
• St Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
• The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
• The T.L.C Beatrice Food International, New York, NY
• Toyota City Hall, Toyota, JP
• Washington State University, Seattle, WA
• Your Heritage House, Detroit, MI

Further reading

• Lombardi, D. Dominick. "Allie McGhee: Parallax," The Brooklyn Rail, October 5, 2022
• Mott, Laura and Renee Aldridge, Taylor (2021) Allie McGhee: Banana Moon Horn. Bloomfields, MI: Cranbrook Art Museum. ISBN 978-1-7333824-2-7
• Mott, Laura, et al,. (2019), Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality. Bloomfields, MI: Cranbrook Art Museum. ISBN 978-0-9891864-9-0
• Alan Nawrocki, Dennis, et al., (2018) Essay'D 3: 30 Detroit Artists. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-4587-0
• Goody, Dick (2008) Seminal Works from the N’namdi Collection of African American Art. Rochester, MI: Oakland University Press. ISBN 978-0925859464
• N’namdi, Kembra (2005) Allie McGhee, Rhythms: Micro to Macro. G.R. N’namdi Gallery.
• Harris, Bill (1977) From These Roots: Photographs and Artifacts from Africa: Paintings by Alma W. Thomas, Charles McGee, Allie McGhee. Detroit, MI: Your Heritage House
• Hobbes, J. Kline (1977) American Black Art: The Known and the New. Battle Creek and Midland, MI: Battle Creek Civic Art Center and Midland Center for the Arts
• "Artists reflect on pain and consequences of Detroit riots," Interview, PBS NewsHour, July 28, 2017