Aaron Douglas (1899 - 1979)

Aaron Douglas

Aaron Douglas is an African-American American artist of the so-called "Jazz Age". One of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance.

Aaron Douglas engaged in monumental and social painting, fought against racial inequality in the USA with his art, is also known as illustrator, decorator and teacher, who taught painting at US universities. In 1944 he finished his career as an artist by founding the painting department at the University of Nashville, Tennessee, where he taught until 1966. He was a major influence on African American fine art in the first half of the twentieth century. He worked in the Art Deco and Modernist styles.