Aaron douglas

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

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

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.

"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.

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

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The exhibition includes 138 paintings, sculptures and photographs by 67 artists produced between 1920 and 1929, a decade marked by the aftermath of the first world war and the onset of the Great Depression. While previous studies and exhibitions on the art of this decade have chosen to focus either on the rarer, Cubist inspired abstraction found in the Precisionist movement or to focus on the oeuvre of single artists, such as Edward Hopper, the current exhibition provides a more complete…

Aaron Douglas - “Listen Lord” 1925

Aaron Douglas :: The Johnson Collection, LLC