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2 days ago · One room spotlights muralist and graphic artist Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), who illustrated James Weldon Johnson’s (1871-1938) “God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse,” a 1927 poetry ...
4 days ago · The cover artwork was done by artist Aaron Douglas. In the first vitrine of books in the exhibition, sitting next to FIRE!!, is Johnson’s book “The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man.”
May 12, 2024 · The leader of the movement was Aaron Douglas. His massive murals, which depicted black history, won him acclaim as the movement’s premier history painter.
5 days ago · One of the murals was designed by Aaron Douglas, an African-American painter and illustrator whose works appear in the collections of the National Gallery of Art and the Metropolitan Museum...
May 13, 2024 · Alma Thomas, Aaron Douglas, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, and Norman Lewis are among the many artists featured in the exhibition. “The artists [featured] are people who...
5 days ago · Featured creators include Charles Alston, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Claude Clark Sr., Aaron Douglas, Melvin Edwards, and many more. The exhibition foregrounds their use of form, color, and their interest in the places comprising the vast African Diaspora. A Reflection on Historical Impact
May 2, 2024 · Aaron Douglas (1899-1979) participated in the 1934 traveling exhibition sponsored by the Harmon Foundation that was commissioned by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP). He painted a series of murals titled Aspects fo Negro Life for the 135th Street Branch Library in New York.
