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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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- Inside the Harlem RenaissanceOctober 2008Maine, StephenArt in America
- The Rise of African American ArtSeptember 2003Kinsella, EileenARTnews
- Walter O Evans CollectionJune 2003Benjamin, Tritobia HayesAmerican Art Review
- Twentieth Century Painting in TennesseeAugust 2002Walker, CeliaAmerican Art Review
- Searching for the Black AudienceMay 2001Newkirk, PamelaARTnews
- The Three GertrudesSeptember 1999Weinberg, J, B Rose, J WolffArt in America
- Art of the Harlem RenaissanceApril 1998Powell, Richard JAmerican Art Review