Black Art Harlem Renaissance History

Song of The Towers (1934)Aaron Douglas was born in Kansas in 1898. He received a BA

in art from the University of Nebraska. He decided to pursue a career as an artist in

New York and earn his MA from Columbia University. Douglas

integrated African designs in his art work.

Into Bondage (1936)

Alain Locke called Aaron Douglas the "pioneering Africanist." Appropriately, he

designed and also illustrated Alain Locke's "The New Negro". In 1928, Aaron Douglas

became the Harlem Artists Guild's 1st president. This program successfully helped

African American artists obtain projects under the Works Progress Administration.

Later in his career, he moved to Nashville and founded the Art Department at Fisk

University and taught for 29 years.

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