- Topeka High School
- University of Kansas
- University of Nebraska–Lincoln
- Académie Scandinave
Aaron Douglas developed a highly recognizable visual language of silhouetted figures, concentric light and African-derived forms. His murals and illustrations gave the Harlem Renaissance one of its defining modernist styles.
Painting; mural; illustration
Major Works
- 1934Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Reconstruction
- 1934Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers
- 1934Aspects of Negro Life: An Idyll of the Deep South
- 1936Into Bondage
- 1939The Judgment Day
- 1944Building More Stately Mansions
- 1925Sahdji (Tribal Women)
- 1931Harriet Tubman mural
- 1934The Negro in an African Setting
- 1930sPower Plant, Harlem
Interviews & Writing
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