Another of the originators of the Harlem Renaissance, Charles S ... including Kansas-born painter Aaron Douglas. Douglas left his position as a high school art teacher to come to New York.

The Harlem Renaissance, as it would be known, was overflowing with the cultural contributions of luminaries such as Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes. But it lacked a visual ...

Aaron Douglas was his name, by the way. Now he’s considered the foremost artist of the Harlem Renaissance – a pioneer who boldly blended the modernist aesthetic of his day with narratives that ...

55 years after its disastrous Harlem Renaissance show that featured ... The leader of the movement was Aaron Douglas. His massive murals, which depicted black history, won him acclaim as the ...

The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, was a movement of the 1920s and ’30s that sought to redefine Black identity through literature, music, painting, photography, and ...