Aaron Douglas

Aaron Douglas (bɛ dɔɣi o la silimiingoli May bɛɣu pishi ni ayɔbu dali, yuuni 1899 ka o kani silimiingoli  February dabaayi dali , yuuni 1979) o nyɛla ŋun tumdi nucheeni tuma din nyɛ  peentin ,ka lahi nyɛ illustrator, nti pahi nucheeni tuma dinjendi nina yuli polo chicha. O nyɛla yuli lani nti bɛ ni boli tuma du shɛli ni Harlem Renaissance la ni. O nyɛla ŋun kpasi o nuuni tuma yaɣili din nyɛ murals peentin la ni nti pahi peentin hankali shɛŋa din sɔŋdi n kariti bee n boori ʒilɛlini bɛhi yɔya din chaŋ ti gbai silimiingi ni bɔli shɛli ni ( race nti pahi segregation ) ka di nyɛla silimiin tiŋ ka o niŋdi lala ŋɔ, ka lee zoogi ka o bɔri gbansabila bɛhi suŋ.

O tuma nim din yi polo
 The February 1926 issue of The Crisis
 The May 1926 issue of The Crisis
 Mural at Club Ebony, 1927
 Illustrations for Paul Morand, Black Magic, 1929
 Harriet Tubman, mural at Bennett College, 1930
 Symbolic Negro History, murals at Fisk University, 1930
 Dance Magic, murals for the Sherman Hotel, Chicago, 1930–31
 Series of illustrations and later paintings initially created for James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, 1927.
 Let My People Go, circa 1935–39
 The Judgment Day, created in 1939
 Mural series commissioned in 1934 by the Works Progress Administration. The series consists of four murals;
The Negro in an African Setting, depicts elements of African cultural dances and music to highlight the central heritage of African Americans.
Slavery through Reconstruction, depicts the contrast between the promise of emancipation and political shift in power post-Civil War and the disappointments of Reconstruction in the United States.
The Idyll of the Deep South, depicts the perseverance of African-American song and dance against the cruelty of lynching and other threats to African Americans in the United States.
Song of the Towers, depicts three events in United States history from an African-American lens, including the movement of African Americans towards the North in the 1910s, the rise of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, and the Great Depression in the 1930s.
 Four-part mural cycle (including Aspiration) at the Texas Centennial Exposition, 1936Woods, Marianne (October 23, 2014). "From Harlem to Texas: African American Art and the Murals of Aaron Douglas". US Studies Online. British Association for American Studies. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
 Illustrations included in selected editions of Countee Cullen's Caroling Dusk and Alain Locke's The New Negro.

 O tuma nim yi laɣilaɣim 
 Let My People Go, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
 The Judgment Day, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
 The Founding of Chicago, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
 Study for "Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Reconstruction", Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

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External links

 Aaron Douglas: Depression Era Murals from American Studies at the University of Virginia
Aaron Douglas Collection  at the Special Collections and Archives at Fisk University.
Aaron Douglas Papers at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
Aaron Douglas: Teacher Resource published by the Spencer Museum of Art, at the University of Kansas.
Missouri Remembers: Artists in Missouri through 1951

Category:1899 births
Category:1979 deaths
Category:Artists from Topeka, Kansas
Category:African-American illustrators
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American male painters
Category:University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni
Category:Artists from Manhattan
Category:People from Harlem
Category:Artists from Nashville, Tennessee
Category:Fisk University faculty
Category:Painters from New York City
Category:Harlem Renaissance
Category:Treasury Relief Art Project artists
Category:University of Kansas alumni
Category:African-American graphic designers
Category:American graphic designers
Category:20th-century African-American painters
Category:AIGA medalists
Category:20th-century American male artists
Category:Topeka High School alumni