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a black and white drawing of a man sitting in the water

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is one of the world's largest libraries devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts and is Yale's principal repository for literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books. The Beinecke Library's robust collections are used to create new scholarship by researchers from around the world.

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this is a painting with people in the background and one person holding a tennis racquet

European research tour exhibition: 'Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art' at the Barbican Art Gallery, UK Part 2 finishes 19th January 2020. "Part 2 on this exceptional exhibition." Art work: Aaron Douglas (American, 1899-1979) 'Dance' c. 1930

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an image of people standing in front of a mountain with the sun shining on them

The exhibition includes 138 paintings, sculptures and photographs by 67 artists produced between 1920 and 1929, a decade marked by the aftermath of the first world war and the onset of the Great Depression. While previous studies and exhibitions on the art of this decade have chosen to focus either on the rarer, Cubist inspired abstraction found in the Precisionist movement or to focus on the oeuvre of single artists, such as Edward Hopper, the current exhibition provides a more complete…

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an image of a painting with people and buildings in the backgroung area

Aaron Douglas Aaron Douglas was an African American painter and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. (wiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Douglas The "Almost there" muscical sequence in Disney's The Princess and the Frog was inspired by his art. http://moniqueblog.net/?p=3907

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a painting of a man standing on top of a hill next to a purple bird

"The Creation" (1935) by Aaron Douglas at Washington, D.C.'s National Museum of African American History & Culture is located on the top floor of the museum. The modernist landscape depicts the first man witnessing the creation of life at the hand of God.

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this is an image of a painting with people in it

Lesson by Patty Bode and Stephanie Schmidt The artwork and leadership of Aaron Douglas foreshadowed the Civil Rights era by setting the visual tone of the Harlem Renaissance movement of the 1920s and 1930s. In this lesson, students will learn about Aaron Douglas and draw silhouettes of marchers, cu

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a painting of a man standing in the middle of a forest

Aaron Douglas was an African-American painter who was influenced in the Harlem Renaissance 100 years ago. Sometimes called “the father of black American art,” his works often feature bold, graphic silhouettes of people, fractured color planes, and harmonious color schemes. For this art project idea,

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