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Aaron Douglas Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
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
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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"
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Aaron Douglas at CGFA
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Dr Leslie and The Composing Room
Institute of International Visual Arts, London, UK
Click "Gallery" at right to see works by Aaron Douglas
PBS
Biographical info from the African American World section of the PBS website
Presence Africaine
Rhapsodies in Black
The Harlem Renaissance (in German) 
University of Virginia Digital Collections
Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers, 1934
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Aaron Douglas 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Artnet Magazine
Sahdji, ca.1925
Building More Stately Mansions, 1944
Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
look inside
Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance
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