Aaron Douglas
Power Plant, Harlem by Aaron Douglas. Oil. 1939.
Aaron Douglas (May 26, 1900 – February 3, 1979), was a U.S. painter and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Douglas received his B.F.A. degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1922. He based his style on traditional African styles and broke down figures into geometric objects.
References
- "Douglas, Aaron" in American National Biography, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). 6:789–790.
- Aaron Douglas: art, race, and the Harlem Renaissance, (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995) by Amy Hellene Kirschke.
- Myers,Aaron. "Douglass, Aaron." _Microsoft Encarta Referance Library 2002._ CD-ROM. 2002 ed. Redmond: Microsoft, 2001.
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