Aaron Douglas
Study for “Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Reconstruction”
1934
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Aaron Douglas
Study for “Aspects of Negro Life: From Slavery Through Reconstruction”
1934
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
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.
Carl Van Vecthen Gallery, Fisk University, Aaron Douglas Retrospective, March 21- April 15, 1971.
David C. Driskell, Bellevue Art Museum, Washington, "Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art 1800-1950", Sept. 14- Nov. 10, 1985, exh cat. figure 25, page 48; circulated by and The Art Museum Association of America to The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Jan. 14-March 10, 1986, California Afro-American Museum, April 7- June 2, 1986, Wadsworth Atheneum, July 4- Aug. 31, 1986, The Mint Museum of Art, Sept. 22- Nov. 17, 1986, San Antonio Museum of Art, Dec. 15, 1986- Feb. 9, 1987, The Toledo Museum of Art, March 8- May 3, 1987, The Baltimore Museum of Art, June 1-July 27, 1987, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Aug. 23-Oct. 18, 1987, Oklahoma Museum of Art, Nov. 15, 1987-Jan. 10. 1988.
James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Influence in America," June 7, 2006 - December 3, 2006.
Susan Earle, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, "Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist," 8 September - 2 December 2007;circulated to Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 18 January - 13 April 2008; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, 9 May - 3 August 2008; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY, 30 August - 30 November 2008, pl. 3, p. 8 (Spencer and Smithsonian venues only).
BMA rotation, American Wing, September 6, 2016 - December 4, 2016.
David C. Driskell, Bellevue Art Museum, Washington, "Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art 1800-1950", Sept. 14- Nov. 10, 1985, exh cat. figure 25, page 48; circulated by and The Art Museum Association of America to The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Jan. 14-March 10, 1986, California Afro-American Museum, April 7- June 2, 1986, Wadsworth Atheneum, July 4- Aug. 31, 1986, The Mint Museum of Art, Sept. 22- Nov. 17, 1986, San Antonio Museum of Art, Dec. 15, 1986- Feb. 9, 1987, The Toledo Museum of Art, March 8- May 3, 1987, The Baltimore Museum of Art, June 1-July 27, 1987, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Aug. 23-Oct. 18, 1987, Oklahoma Museum of Art, Nov. 15, 1987-Jan. 10. 1988.
James Smalls, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Henry Ossawa Tanner and his Influence in America," June 7, 2006 - December 3, 2006.
Susan Earle, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, "Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist," 8 September - 2 December 2007;circulated to Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 18 January - 13 April 2008; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, 9 May - 3 August 2008; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY, 30 August - 30 November 2008, pl. 3, p. 8 (Spencer and Smithsonian venues only).
BMA rotation, American Wing, September 6, 2016 - December 4, 2016.
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,"
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."
