Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection
2018Blackman, Lynne (Editor), The Johnson Collection
245 pages (color)
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1899 Topeka, Kansas - 1979 Nashville, Tennessee. Known for: African-American genre painting, illustration, mural.
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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... Read full biography
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
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 significantly art. Shortly after his arrival in Harlem, Douglas made the acquaintance of German- American portrait artist Wi... Read full biography
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Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
2007
(Exhibition catalog)Earle, Susan (Editor)254 pages (color)Biographical Directory of Kansas Artists Active Before 1945
2006Craig, Susan (Compiler)0 pagesThe Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesWho Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesCollecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas
1998Taha, Halima270 pages (color)Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century
1997Powell, Richard J256 pages (color)Aaron Douglas Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaisance
1995Kirschke, Amy Helene166 pagesThe Harlem Renaissance Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930
1995Watson, Steven225 pagesAfrican American Art
1994
(Exhibition catalog)San Antonio Museum of Art67 pages (color)A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present
1993Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson542 pages (color)Raiding the Icebox Reflections on Twentieth-Century Culture
1993Wollen, Peter222 pagesBlack Art/Ancestral Legacy
1989
(Exhibition catalog)Dallas Museum of Fine Art305 pages (color)African American Artists 1880-1987 Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection
1989McElroy, Guy C (others)125 pages (color)The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy376 pages (color)Whistler to Weidenaar American Prints 1870-1950
1987
(Exhibition catalog)Johnson, Deborah J128 pagesHarlem Renaissance Art of Black America
1987
(Exhibition catalog)Studio Museum in Harlem200 pages (color)Artists Against War and Fascism Papers/First American Artists' Congress
1986Baigell, Mathew/Julia Williams310 pages300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986Zellman, Michael David1,102 pages (color)Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985Dawdy, Doris1,184 pagesWho Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)707 pagesPainting in the South: 1564-1980
1983
(Exhibition catalog)Virginia Museum, Richmond362 pages (color)Critical Vision/A Historyof Social and Political Art in the U S
1982Von Blum, Paul165 pagesDictionary of American Art
1979Baigell, Mathew390 pagesArt: African American
1978Lewis, Samella246 pages (color)Two Centuries of Black American Art
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Driskell, David C221 pages (color)Amistad II Afro-American Art
1975
(Exhibition catalog)Driskell, David C92 pagesAfro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory
1973Cederholm, Theresa Dickason348 pagesBlack Dimensions in Contemporary American Art
1971Atkinson, J Edward127 pages (color)The Thirties Decade American Artists and Their European Contemporaries
1971
(Exhibition catalog)Porter, Allen/Wm McGonagle80 pagesAmerican Negro Art
1960Dover, Cedric186 pages (color)Modern Negro Art
1943Porter, James A272 pagesAmerican Book Illustrators Bibliographic Checklist of 123 Artists
1938Bolton, Theodore290 pagesFirst American Art Congress 1936
1936American Art Congress104 pagesNegro Artists: An Illustrated Review of Their Achievements
1935
(Exhibition catalog)Harmon Foundation60 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pages