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Person · 1899–1979

Aaron Douglas

The painter who created the signature visual style of the Harlem Renaissance.

The painter of the [[harlem-renaissance]] and [[black-visual-art]].

Aaron Douglas blended Art Deco and African forms to illustrate the movement's books and journals and to paint the "Aspects of Negro Life" murals.

On the timeline

  1. 1934
    Aaron Douglas's "Aspects of Negro Life"

    Douglas paints a four-panel mural cycle tracing Black history from Africa to the modern city.

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