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Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist

May 9, 2008 - August 3, 2008

Museum: American Art Museum

Location: 1st Floor, Northwest, Granite Gallery (North)

On view are more than 80 rarely seen works by Aaron Douglas (1899-1979) -- one of the foremost visual artists from the Harlem Renaissance -- including paintings, prints, drawings, and illustrations, in addition to works by several of his contemporaries. Douglas combined angular cubist rhythms and a seductive Art Deco dynamism with traditional African and African American imagery to develop a radically new visual vocabulary; his art made a lasting impression on American modernism. Catalogue: $45 Organized by and traveling under the auspices of the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.