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Aaron Douglas

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Aaron Douglas (1899 - 1979) was active/lived in New York, Kansas.  Aaron Douglas is 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 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 Winold Reiss, who illustrated the March 1925 New Negro issue of Survey Graphic for Locke.&nbs   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 13019 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  38
Magazine References:  7

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7 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Aaron Douglas
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Inside the Harlem Renaissance October 2008 Maine, Stephen Yes
ARTnews The Rise of African American Art September 2003 Kinsella, Eileen Yes
American Art Review Walter O Evans Collection June 2003 Benjamin, Tritobia Hayes Yes
American Art Review Twentieth Century Painting in Tennessee August 2002 Walker, Celia Yes
ARTnews Searching for the Black Audience May 2001 Newkirk, Pamela Yes
Art in America The Three Gertrudes September 1999 Weinberg, J, B Rose, J Wolff Yes
American Art Review Art of the Harlem Renaissance April 1998 Powell, Richard J Yes
38 Book References for Aaron Douglas
Year Author Title Pages Color
2018 Blackman, Lynne (Editor), The Johnson Collection Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection 245 Yes
2007 Earle, Susan (Editor) Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
(Exhibition catalog)		 254 Yes
2006 Craig, Susan (Compiler) Biographical Directory of Kansas Artists Active Before 1945 0 No
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Taha, Halima Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas 270 Yes
1997 Powell, Richard J Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century 256 Yes
1995 Kirschke, Amy Helene Aaron Douglas Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaisance 166 No
1995 Watson, Steven The Harlem Renaissance Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930 225 No
1994 San Antonio Museum of Art African American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 67 Yes
1993 Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present 542 Yes
1993 Wollen, Peter Raiding the Icebox Reflections on Twentieth-Century Culture 222 No
1989 Dallas Museum of Fine Art Black Art/Ancestral Legacy
(Exhibition catalog)		 305 Yes
1989 McElroy, Guy C (others) African American Artists 1880-1987 Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection 125 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1987 Johnson, Deborah J Whistler to Weidenaar American Prints 1870-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 No
1987 Studio Museum in Harlem Harlem Renaissance Art of Black America
(Exhibition catalog)		 200 Yes
1986 Baigell, Mathew/Julia Williams Artists Against War and Fascism Papers/First American Artists' Congress 310 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1983 Virginia Museum, Richmond Painting in the South: 1564-1980
(Exhibition catalog)		 362 Yes
1982 Von Blum, Paul Critical Vision/A Historyof Social and Political Art in the U S 165 No
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1978 Lewis, Samella Art: African American 246 Yes
1976 Driskell, David C Two Centuries of Black American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 221 Yes
1975 Driskell, David C Amistad II Afro-American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 92 No
1973 Cederholm, Theresa Dickason Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory 348 No
1971 Atkinson, J Edward Black Dimensions in Contemporary American Art 127 Yes
1971 Porter, Allen/Wm McGonagle The Thirties Decade American Artists and Their European Contemporaries
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1960 Dover, Cedric American Negro Art 186 Yes
1943 Porter, James A Modern Negro Art 272 No
1938 Bolton, Theodore American Book Illustrators Bibliographic Checklist of 123 Artists 290 No
1936 American Art Congress First American Art Congress 1936 104 No
1935 Harmon Foundation Negro Artists: An Illustrated Review of Their Achievements
(Exhibition catalog)		 60 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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