Harlem Renaissance Artists for kids: List
of Harlem Renaissance Artists
This article contains a list and short descriptions of important,
major
Artists who were all played key roles in the Harlem Renaissance
movement.
Harlem Renaissance Artists for kids:
List of Famous Harlem
Renaissance Artists
The following
list contains the names, short biographies and descriptions of the most notable and famous Harlem
Renaissance Artists. The Artists who feature in the list include
Aaron Douglas, Lois Mailou
Jones, Laura Wheeler Waring,
Charles Alston, Meta Fuller, Archibald Motley, Augusta Savage,
Jacob Lawrence, Palmer C. Hayden, William Johnson, and photographer James Van Der Zee.
List of Famous Harlem
Renaissance Artists for kids
Harlem Renaissance Artists: Aaron Douglas: The prominent
artist Aaron Douglas (1899-1979) was famous for painting
murals for public buildings and designing illustrations
for the covers designs for many famous black
publications including The Crisis and Opportunity
Harlem Renaissance Artists:
Lois Mailou Jones: Lois Mailou
Jones (1905-1998) was a notable female artist of the era
whose highly expressive paintings that portrayed the
lives of poor African Americans.
Harlem Renaissance Artists:
Jacob Lawrence: Jacob Lawrence
(1917-2000) was a major young artist of the period whose
most famous artworks reflected the forced migration of
Africans to America.
Harlem Renaissance Artists:
Palmer C. Hayden: Palmer C.
Hayden (1890 - 1973)was a major artist who was famous
for his paintings in both watercolors and oils that
depicted scenes of African American life.
Harlem Renaissance Artists:
Laura Wheeler Waring: Laura
Wheeler Waring (1887 - 1948) was a prominent portrait
painter who also produced illustrations for the NAACP
magazine, the Crisis.
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Renaissance Artists for kids
Harlem Renaissance Artists:
List of Famous Harlem
Renaissance Artists
The following
list continues with details of the most notable and famous Harlem
Renaissance Artists.
List of Famous Harlem
Renaissance Artists for kids
Harlem Renaissance Artists:
Meta Fuller: Meta Fuller
(1877-1968) was a famous black female artist who
specialized in clay, plaster and bronze sculptures that
strongly reflected emotions. Meta Fuller drew her
inspiration for her sculptures from from the songs of
black America and from African folk tales.
Harlem Renaissance Artists:
Archibald Motley: Archibald
Motley (1891-1981) studied art at the Institute of
Chicago and painted portraits of African Americans and
scenes of contemporary African American social life. His
work earned him a solo exhibition in New York City.
Harlem Renaissance Artists:
Augusta Savage: Augusta Savage
(1892 – 1962) was a famous black female artist who
specialized in sculptures and paintings. Her work
included sculptures of the busts of prominent
personalities such as Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. Du
Bois.
Harlem Renaissance Artists:
William Johnson: William H.
Johnson (1901-1970) was an innovative artist whose work
evolved from realism to expressionism. His choice of
subjects depicted from scenes of daily life in New York
City to artistic impressions of rural life in the south.
Harlem Renaissance Artists:
Charles Alston: Charles Alston
(1907 - 1977) was a famous African-American painter,
muralist, sculptor and illustrator. Charles Alston
scuptured a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. and in 1990
it became the first image of an African American to be
displayed at the White House.
Harlem Renaissance Artists:
James Van Der Zee: James Van
Der Zee (1886–1983) was a prominent photographer who
took thousands of photographs an d portraits of black
Americans in his Harlem studio. James Van Der Zee rose
to fame due to the photographs he took of notable
celebrities of the era such as Bessie Smith and Florence
Mills.
List of Famous Harlem
Renaissance Artists for kids
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