Aaron Douglas

Aaron Douglas People may ask, what other than a tornado can come out of Kansas? Well, Aaron Douglas was born of May 26, 1899 in Topeka, Kansas. Aaron Douglas was a "Pioneering Africanist" artist who led the way in using African- oriented imagery in visual art during the Harlem Renaissance of 1919- 1929. His work has been credited as the catalyst for the genre incorporating themes in form and style that affirm the validity of the black consciousness …

…of Black American Art (1976) by David Driskell. In the decade following his death, the innovative art of "pioneering Africanist" Aaron Douglas was features in numerous exhibitions and in critical publications. Bibliography Works Cited Johnson, James Weldon, God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse. New York: Penguin Books, 1990. Kirschke, Amy Helene, Aaron Douglas: Art, Race, and the Harlem Renaissance. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995. Lewis, David Levering, The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader, Volume 1. New York: Viking, 1994.