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"Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist"

Smithsonian American Art Museum

8th St NW & F St NW
Washington, DC
Phone: 202.633.1000

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Gallery Place-Chinatown

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"Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist” presents the first nationally touring retrospective of the work of Aaron Douglas (1899-1979), one of the foremost visual artists from the Harlem Renaissance. This exhibition brings together more than 80 rarely seen works by the artist including paintings, prints, drawings and illustrations, in addition to works by several of his contemporaries. Douglas combined angular cubist rhythms and a seductive Art Deco dynamism with traditional African and African American imagery to develop a radically new visual vocabulary. His forceful ideas and distinctive artistic forms made a lasting impact on American modernism.