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ARTIST, AFTER ATTENDING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AND TEACHING ART IN KANSAS CITY HIGH SCHOOL. DOUGLAS MOVED TO NEW YORK, THERE HE STUDIED WITH THE GERMAN ILLUSTRATOR WINOLD REISS AND BEGAN TO INCORPORATE AFRICAN DESIGN ELEMENTS INTO HIS OTHERWISE REALISTIC APPROACH TO PAINTING. HIS WORK CAME TO THE ATTENTION OF ALAIN LOCKE, INTO PIONEERING THE BOOK " THE NEW NEGRO" HIS TALENTS LED TO A COMMISSION TO CREATE A MURAL FOR CLUB EBONY, A POPULAR HARLEM NIGHTS CLUB. LATER HE CREATED MURALS FOR FISK UNIVERSITY, THE BALLROOM OF CHICAGO'S SHERMAN HOTEL AND THE COUNTEE CULLEN BRANCH OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. THE LIBRARY MURALS. CALLED THE ASPECTS OF NEGRO LIFE, ARE VIBRANT HISTORIC DEPICTION OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIFE THAT IS AMONG DOUGLAS'S BEST KNOWN WORK.OFTEN CALLED THE FATHER OF BLACK AMERICAN ART. DOUGLAS WAS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENCIAL ARTISTS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Posted By: barbara robinson
Monday, June 25th 2012 at 9:31AM
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