Aaron douglas

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.

Aaron Douglas- Aspects of Negro Life – From Slavery Through Reconstruction, 1934.

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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

"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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Defiance, from The Emperor Jones series is a Harlem Renaissance Wood Block Print created by Aaron Douglas in 1926. The image is in the Public Domain, and tagged Black Subjects.

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