Aaron Douglas

[African-American Harlem Renaissance Painter, 1899-1979]

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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:

Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
Study for Aspects of Negro Life: The Negro in an African Setting

Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Illustration of The Prodigal Son

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Building More Stately Mansions

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Into Bondage

Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Portrait of Aaron Douglas, by Edwin Harleston

Howard University Art Collection, Washington D.C.
4 works online

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by Aaron Douglas online

Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art, Georgia
Boy with a Toy Plane, 1938

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City
Biographical information

Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Info about a 2007 exhibition: "Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist"

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

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Aaron Douglas at CGFA

Other Web Sites:

Dr Leslie and The Composing Room

Institute of International Visual Arts, London, UK
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PBS
Biographical info from the African American World section of the PBS website

Rhapsodies in Black

The Harlem Renaissance (in German)

University of Virginia Digital Collections
Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers, 1934

Articles:

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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
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Artnet Magazine
Sahdji, ca.1925
Building More Stately Mansions, 1944

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Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance

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