Aaron Douglas, widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished and influential visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance, was born in Topeka, Kansas, on May 26, 1899. He attended a segregated primary school, McKinley Elementary, and Topeka High School, which was integrated.
the 1930s Douglas returned intermittently to Fisk where he served as assistant professor
Discover terrifying Halloween treasures from Hieronymous Bosch and Edvard Munch—plus lesser-known artists who brilliantly captured ghosts, witches, vampires, and monsters.
Bloom, Fish Skeletons, c. 1956, etching in black on hand-made laid paper, Gift of Professor
An environmental historian discusses how artists documented the Little Ice Age.
min read April 10, 2023 Dagomar Degroot Dagomar Degroot is an associate professor
Maratta and had begun to experiment with theories developed by the Harvard University professor
Through her evocative installations, the pioneering Chicana artist seeks to connect the past with the present.
teaching, Mesa-Bains responds to questions with the severe aura of a university professor
the Center’s Kress Professors, 1995–2016, with a short reminiscence about each professor
Rico Lebrun was born in Naples, Italy, on December 10, 1900. After a year as a telephone lineman in the Italian army during World War I, Lebrun completed his second year of compulsory military service in Naples while enrolled in the Industrial Institute and taking evening drawing classes at the Naples Academy of Fine Arts.
In 1958 Lebrun was a visiting professor of art at Yale University, and in 1959 he
Catherine Lafarge, Professor Emerita of French, Bryn Mawr College (personal communication
Learn about the lives and works of artists of Latin American descent working in the United States from the 1930s to today.
’s prints are Che Guevara, a leader of the Cuban Revolution; American activist, professor
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