Aaron douglas

Aaron Douglas (1898-1979) Born in Kansas in 1898, Douglas received a BA in art from the University of Nebraska. Douglas taught art in Kansas City for a few years until he decided to pursue a career...

Aaron Douglas Aaron Douglas was an African American painter and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. (wiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Douglas The "Almost there" muscical sequence in Disney's The Princess and the Frog was inspired by his art. http://moniqueblog.net/?p=3907

Founded in 1989, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is recognized for modern & contemporary art.

"The Creation" (1935) by Aaron Douglas at Washington, D.C.'s National Museum of African American History & Culture is located on the top floor of the museum. The modernist landscape depicts the first man witnessing the creation of life at the hand of God.

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Aaron Douglas, who created a singular mix of Afro-centric allegory and Modernist abstraction, is the subject of a valuable exhibition at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Love poems, Blues poems – from The Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes verses composed between 1924 and 1930: . . . “Subway Face” . That I have been looking For you all my life Does not matter to you. You do not know. . You never knew. Nor did I. Now you take the Harlem train…

The exhibit After the Fall reveals the radicalism—and other political views—behind much of the decade’s painting.

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Painting by Aaron Douglas