Smithsonian American Art Museum
Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
May 9, 2008 – August 3, 2008
On view are more than 80 rarely seen works by Aaron Douglas (1899-1979)—one of the foremost visual artists from the Harlem Renaissance—including paintings, prints, drawings, and illustrations, in addition to works by several of his contemporaries. Douglas combined angular cubist rhythms and a seductive Art Deco dynamism with traditional African and African American imagery to develop a radically new visual vocabulary; his art made a lasting impression on American modernism.
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