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
  • 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, 1936
• 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

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