Aaron Douglas ART FOR SALE

1899 Topeka, Kansas - 1979 Nashville, Tennessee. Known for: African-American genre painting, illustration, mural.

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Aaron Douglas, who was born on May 26, 1899 in Topeka, Kansas, is the American artist perhaps most closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance, and for synthesizing formal and symbolic elements of African art with a modern European aesthetic. He studied at the University of Nebraska, from which he graduated, as well as Columbia University Teachers College. His artistic career began as an illustrator, working in ink drawings. In 1925, attracted by the presence of Alaine Locke, philosopher and cultural critic, Douglas moved to Harlem, New York to be part of Lockes' New Negro Movement. This movement expressed African Americans' new pride in their African heritage, manifesting itself in literature, song, dance, and for Douglas, most... Read full biography

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Type:Print

Year:1955

Medium:Aquatint

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1955 etching and aquatint 8-3/4 x 7-1/2 inches (image), full margins signed, titled and dated Provenance: private collection, Washington, DC A very rare print by the artist Pricing available upon request.

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