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Birth
1899 (Topeka, Kansas)
Death
1979 (Nashville, Tennessee)
Lived/Active
New York/Kansas
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African-American genre painting, illustration, mural
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Aaron Douglas, who was born on May 26, 1899 in Topeka, Kansas, is the American
artist perhaps most closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance, and
for synthesizing formal and symbolic elements of African art with a
modern European aesthetic.
He studied at the University of
Nebraska, from which he graduated, as well as Columbia University
Teachers College. His artistic career began as an illustrator, working
in ink drawings.
In 1925, attracted by the presence of Alaine
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