Artists by Movement: early 1920's to 1930's The Harlem
Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African-
American social thought that was expressed through the visual
arts, as well as through music (Louis Armstrong, Eubie Blake,
Fats Waller and Billie Holiday), literature (Langston Hughes,
Zora Neale Hurston, and W.E.B. DuBois), theater (Paul Robeson)
and dance (Josephine Baker). Centered in the Harlem district of
New York City, the New Negro Movement (as it was called at the
time) had a profound influence across the United States and even
around the world. The intellectual and social freedom of the era
attracted many Black Americans from the rural south to the
industrial centers of the north - and especially to New York
City. Artists at the core of the Harlem Renaissance movement
included William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones and the sculptor
and printmaker Sargent Claude Johnson. Other prominent artists
associated with the Harlem Renaissance included Jacob Lawrence,
Archibald Motley and Romare B