- NAME: Aaron Douglas - OCCUPATION: Illustrator, Painter - BIRTH
DATE: May 26, 1899 - DEATH DATE: February 02, 1979 - EDUCATION:
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Topeka High School - PLACE OF
BIRTH: Topeka, Kansas - PLACE OF DEATH: Nashville, Tennessee -
Full Name: Aaron Douglas - Nickname: "Father of Black American
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Now Aaron Douglas was an African-American painter and graphic
artist who played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance of
the 1920s and 1930s. His first major commission, to illustrate
Alain LeRoy Locke's book, The New Negro, prompted requests for
graphics from other Harlem Renaissance writers. By 1939, Douglas
started teaching at Fisk University, where he remained for the
next 27 years. "We can go to African life and get a certain
amount of form and c