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ID: 500110570
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500110570
 
Record Type: Person
Douglas, Aaron (American painter and muralist, 1899-1979)

Note: Douglas was the leading artist of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s. He was the first African-American artist to include African artifacts in his work as a way to demonstrate the continuity of African culture despite slavery.

Names:
Douglas, Aaron (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
Aaron Douglas (V,display)
Aaron, Douglas (U)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
African American
Black

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
muralist
illustrator
etcher
graphic artist
advertising artist
watercolorist
decorative painter
manufacturer
pastelist
draftsman
pen draftsman
author
lecturer
art critic
professor
printmaker

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Topeka (Shawnee county, Kansas, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)
active:   Kansas City (Jackson county, Missouri, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
student of ....  Despiau, Charles  
..................  (French sculptor, 1874-1946) [500115511]
student of ....  Friesz, Othon  
..................  (French painter, 1879-1949) [500031339]
student of ....  Reiss, Winold  
..................  (American painter and architect, 1886-1953) [500012600]
student of ....  Waroquier, Henry de  
..................  (French painter, engraver, and sculptor, 1881-1970) [500004842]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Douglas, Aaron (I)

Biographies:
(American painter and muralist, 1899-1979) ..... [BHA Preferred]
(American painter, 1899-1979) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(American painter, illustrator, 1899-1979) ..... [MoMA]
(American etcher, 1899-1979) ..... [RKD]
(American artist, 1899-1979) ..... [Morem]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Aaron Douglas ........ [GRL, Morem, VP]
............................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
............................  KCAI data (2021-) https://missouriartists.org/
............................  Lewis, African American Art and Artists (2003) 60
............................  Missouri Remembers (2021-)
Aaron, Douglas ........ [MoMA Preferred]
..............................  MoMA, Spreadsheet of artist authority designations (2019-) 45081
Douglas, Aaron ........ [BHA Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, Morem Preferred, RKD Preferred]
..............................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
..............................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
..............................  KCAI data (2021-) https://missouriartists.org/
..............................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 84165066
..............................  Missouri Remembers (2021-)
..............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 104325

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, GRL, Grove Art, MoMA, Morem, RKD, VP]
....................  Aaron Douglas (2000-)
....................  Anderson, Aaron Douglas, NGA Online Editions (2016)
....................  Bearden and Henders, A History of African-American Artists (1993)
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Cederholm, Afro-American artists (1973)
....................  Early, Aaron Douglas (2007)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n84165066
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Havlice, Index to Artistic Biography (1973)
....................  Knappe, Aaron Douglas, American Studies (2008)
....................  Lewis, African American Art and Artists (2003) 60
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n84165066
....................  Lincoln High School Collection (AC9), Black Archives of Mid-America (1904-1982)
....................  Missouri Remembers (2021-)
....................  MoMA, Spreadsheet of artist authority designations (2019-) 45081
....................  NY Times obit. 22 Feb 1979
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 104325
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q4661979
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Grove Art Online (2003-2008) accessed 21 January 2005
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