Tennessee, New York / France. 1901 - 1979
Lyrical abstract painting, city scenes-jazz
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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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New York, Tennessee. 1904 - 1991
Street genre, figure, portrait, mural
New York, Maine / France. 1890 - 1973
African-American figure, ethnic urban genre
New York, Illinois. 1916 - 2015
Modernist social life genre and nude women painting, graphics
New York. 1909 - 1979
Non objective, ethnic genre-view painting
District Of Columbia, Massachusetts / Haiti. 1905 - 1998
African figure-genre, landscape, still life and mask painting, teaching
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Brunswick / Canada. 1828 - 1901
Idealized landscape, marine, portrait and still life painting
Illinois, New York, California. 1918 - 1979
Black-American figure and genre and mural painting
New York, Florida. 1892 - 1962
African-American portrait sculpture, educator
Georgia, New York / France. 1900 - 1980
Southern poverty images-paintings and history murals
Illinois, District Of Columbia. 1914 - 1985
Harlequin figure portrait paintings, clownsset design, playwright
Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, New Mexico. 1915 - 1999
Figure in desolate landscape painting, surrealism, teaching
Virginia, Texas. 1924 - 2001
Narrative mural painting-African-American subjects
District Of Columbia. 1891 - 1978
Non objective-optical imagery painting, teaching
New York, North Carolina. 1907 - 1977
Abstract expressionist painting, portraits, lithography, murals
Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts / Italy. 1937 - 1966
Figurative expressionist painting, religion
Alabama, Pennsylvania, California. 1915 - 2001
Modernist African-American genre and figure painting, printmaking
California, Massachusetts. 1888 - 1967
Mod figure, sculptor, graphics, mural
Pennsylvania, Kansas / France. 1859 - 1937
Painting-religious, Orientalism, genre, figure, landscape
New York, California, Mississippi / Jamaica. 1901 - 1989
Expresssionist monument and figure sculpture
Nebraska, Minnesota. 1914 - 1977
Ceramics, terra cotta pottery, portrait and elongated figure sculpture, teaching
District Of Columbia, South Carolina / Denmark, Norway. 1901 - 1970
Naive genre, figure, still life painting, serigraphs, drawing
District Of Columbia, New York / Mexico. 1915 - 2012
Abstract sculpture, modernist figure and portrait painting, graphics
District Of Columbia, Maryland. 1905 - 1970
Figure-genre, portrait and still life painting
Massachusetts, New Jersey. 1910 - 2007
Black-American street genre, prints
Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut. 1887 - 1948
Portrait painting of black Americans and still-life, teaching
Maryland, District Of Columbia. 1931 - 2020
Abstract painting-African American themes, collage, non objective, graphics
New York. 1914 - 2005
African-American figure, political genre
New York / United Kingdom. 1899 - 1977
Afro-naive to mod figure, animal, painting, illustration
New York, New Jersey. 1917 - 2000
Modernist naive urban genre-figure painting
New York, North Carolina. 1911 - 1988
Modernist African-American figure and landscape painting, collage
Connecticut, New York. 1847 - 1923
Fruit and floral still life painting