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2008 Artworks, Spring 2008
 
2008 Art News, May 2008
   
2007 Art Ltd., November 2007
     
2007 Homes of Color, Jan-Feb-March 2007
   
2007 Berkeley Symphony Orchestra Postcard, January 13, 2007
 
2006 Brandywine Achivement Award Poster, October 14, 2006
 
2002 Barilleaux, Réne P., ed. Mary Lovelace O'Neal. Jackson: Mississippi Museum of Art
   
When Mary Lovelace O’Neal began her career and an artist almost forty years ago, it seemed anomalous to some that she, as an African American woman, would choose to make abstract painting instead of the figurative, politically charged works which committed black artists were expected to make. O’Neal, instead of closely following in the footsteps of Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, or Robert Colescott, took another direction…
[Except from essay Painting! by Lilly Wei]
 
 
 
1998 Holland, Juanita Marie, ed. Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection. Rohnert, California: Pomegranate Communications, Inc. p 154
1997 Riggs, Thomas, ed. St. James Guide to Black Artists. Detroit: St. James Press, pp 401-403
1997 The International Review of African American Art. Hampton University Museum, Vol. 14, No. 2, p 43
1995 Moore, Sylvia, ed. Gumbo Ya Ya: Anthology of Contemporary African-American Woman Artists. New York: Midmarch Arts Press. pp 194-195
1995 O'Neal, Mary Lovelace and Lee Hildegrand. Colors and Chords: The Art of Johnny Otis. San Francisco: Pomengranate Artbooks
1994 Troisieme Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes - 1994. Chamalieres: Musee D'Art Contemporain de Chamalieres. p 722
1993 Villa, Carlos. World in Collusion, San Francisco: California
1991 Krantz, Les. California Art Review. Chicago: American References
1991 17 Artistas Latino y Afro Americanos en USA
 
1989 Moore, Sylvia, ed. Yesterday and Tomorrow: California Women Artists. New York: Middlemarh Arts Press. pp 197, 200 (Illustration)
1988 Roth, Moria, ed. Connecting Conversations: Interview with Twenty-Eight Bay Area Womoen Artists. Oakland: Mills College. pp 153-159 (Interview by Mia Carenya Seabrooks)
1988 Hamalian, Leo and James V. Hatch, eds. Artists and Influence 1988: Images of Women. Vol. 6. New York: Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc. pp 13-21 (Inverview by Horace Brockington)
1985 duPont, Diana C., et al. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: The Painting and Sculpture Collection. New York: Hudson Ills Press. p 352
1985 Albright, Thomas. Art In The San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980. Berkeley: University of California Press. p 302
1984 Orr-Cahall, Christina. The Art of California. The Oakland Museum Art Department and Chronicle Books. p 193
1981 Bontemps, Arna Alexander, ed. Forever Free: Art by African American Women 1962-1980. Normal: Illinois State University. p 43+
 
 
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