Aaron Douglas
Study for “Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Reconstruction”
1933
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Aaron Douglas
Study for “Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Reconstruction”
1933
Physical Qualities
Opaque watercolor over graphite on paper mounted on board, Framed: 28 × 39 in. (71.1 × 99.1 cm.)
Sheet: 515 x 760 mm. (20 1/4 x 29 15/16 in.)
Image: 280 x 660 mm. (11 x 26 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection
Object Number
2004.179
Study for the third of the four paintings in the mural cycle entitled " Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Reconstruction" commissioned in 1934 by the Public Works of Art Project for the 135th Street Branch of The New York Public Library (now The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture).
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2004; Steven Jones, Philadelphia, acquired from estate of Stephanie E. Pogue, Hyattsville, Maryland, 2004; acquired from the artist, c. 1975.
Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Influence in America
Aaron Douglas and the Harlem Renaissance
Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, 1925-1945
David C. Driskell. Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America, New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987, illust. plate 5, page 18.
Susan Earle, "Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist,"
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Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "A. Douglas" On label affixed to recto, lower center: "Harriet Tubman"; printed on verso, left and right center: "Bainbridge Illustration Board Number 80 . . . "; stamped on verso, left and right center: "Artists Materials/Joseph Torch/wholesale retail . . . " Inscribed in graphite: "Working sketch for Harriet Tubman Mural (Oil)/at Bennett College/Greensborough, N.C."
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