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Aaron Douglas
A major artist of the Harlem Renaissance movement, Aaron Douglas moved to New York from his native Kansas, feeling himself drawn to Harlem by newspaper articles reporting the flowering of black cultural awareness. There he met and studied with the German artist Winold Reiss, who encouraged him to celebrate his racial heritage and introduce African motifs and themes into his paintings. Considered by many historians to be the father of black American art, Douglas was a frequent contributor to The Crisis magazine and was the only African American artist featured in Alain Locke's classic anthology of black writers, The New Negro (1925). Douglas is best remembered for his illustrative collaboration with author James Weldon Johnson in his book of poetry, God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse.
Source: http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/harmon/dougharm.htm
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