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Artist: Aaron Douglas (1899 - 1979)
Nationality: American
Movement: Modern American School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Aaron Douglas studied at the University of Kansas before moving to New York in 1925 to work with Winold Reiss. He began his career by illustrating books for African American authors and publishing drawings in magazines. He also produced a number of large murals about black culture in Nashville and New York City. Because of these efforts, Douglas was one of the major forces behind the Harlem Renaissance at this time. He then traveled to Paris to study at the Academie Scandinave with Charles Despiau. After an extensive trip through the southern US and Haiti, Douglas returned to Nashville to teach at Fisk University.


Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Aaron Douglas - Into Bondage 1936 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Thomas Hart Benton - Aaron 1941 Lithograph Arkansas Arts Center American
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Francis Alexander - Aaron Baldwin c. 1835 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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Anonymous Gathering Manna: Moses Directing Aaron to keep an Omer of it (from Moses and Aaron series) wool, cotton, silk (?) early 16th century
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Anonymous Moses informing Aaron of God's Message to Pharoah (from Moses and Aaron series) wool, cotton, silk (?) early 16th century
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Samuel J. Miller - Frederick Douglas 1847-52 cased half-plate dag The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Gilbert Stuart - Mrs. Aaron Lopez and Her Son Joshua 1772-73 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Douglas Volk - The Artist's Daughter (Marion Douglas Volk Bridge, 1888-1973) 1914 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Moïse et Aaron en présence de Pharaon (17e siècle) by anonyme
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Gilbert Stuart, American, 1755-1828 Aaron Davis about 1816 Oil on panel 73.02 x 58.74 cm
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Moses and Aaron before Pharaoh: An Allegory of the Dinteville Family, 1537 Master of the
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Moïse et Aaron menaçant Pharaon (16e siècle) by anonyme
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Douglas Tilden The Tired Boxer bronze 1892
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Douglas Gorsline Dog Days Etching 20th century
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Douglas Gorsline Express Stop Etching ca. 1930 - 1940
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Douglas Fenn Wilson Upstream Passage watercolor 1973
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Aaron Bohrod New Orleans Street Lithograph 20th century
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Aaron Bohrod Church in Luxembourg Lithograph 20th century
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Mausolée de Guillaume de Douglas (1921) by COURONNE
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Thomas Hart Benton Aaron Lithograph 1941
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ABRAHAM OU AARON (16e siècle) by anonyme
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Moïse et Aaron comparaissant devant Pharaon by ZUCCARO Federico
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Figure de Aaron (18e siècle) by BOUCHARDON Edme ; MARATTI Carlo (inspiré par)
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LBB 472, Douglas Busch (United States, born 1951) , 1996, Ink-jet print
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JL 762, Douglas Busch (United States, born 1951) , 1996, Ink-jet print
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LBB 129, Douglas Busch (United States, born 1951) , 1996, Ink-jet print
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LBB 118, Douglas Busch (United States, born 1951) , 1996, Ink-jet print
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Ezra Ames Colonel David Cady (formerly called Colonel Aaron Ogden) oil on canvas 1810
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W.G. Jackman Douglas jerrold 19th century
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Aaron, Nicolas Beatrizet (France, Thionville or Lunéville, 1507 or 1515 - circa 1565) , Engraving
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Woman Undressing, Aaron Bohrod (1907 - 1992)  (Artist), no date, Graphite pencil on colored paper
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Douglas W. MacLeod The Chellah, Rabat Etching 1928
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Douglas I. Smart The Pier Etching 19th - 20th century
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Douglas I. Smart Untitled Etching 19th - 20th century
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Douglas I. Smart Giford Castle? Etching 19th - 20th century
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Douglas I. Smart All Saints' Oxford Etching 19th - 20th century
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Anonymous Jacob and Rebekah (from Moses and Aaron series) wool, cotton, silk (?) early 16th century
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Deerslayer, Aaron Morse (Tucson, Arizona, born 1974)  (Artist), 2006, Four color lithograph with hand coloring
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Barthel Beham Moses And Aaron Engraving 1526
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Douglas I. Smart A Distant Town Etching 19th - 20th century
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Douglas I. Smart St. Jacques, Antwerp Etching 19th - 20th century
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Douglas I. Smart Low Tide, Berwick Etching 19th - 20th century
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Douglas W. MacLeod Gibralter Etching 19th - 20th century
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Douglas Volk They Shall Not Perish - World War I Poster lithograph poster 1918
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Douglas W. MacLeod The Stoker Etching 19th - 20th century
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Lord Douglas Hamilton (1965) by anonyme
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Douglas I. Smart Thames Barges #2 Etching 19th - 20th century
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Douglas I. Smart Thames Barges #1 Etching 19th - 20th century
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Douglas I. Smart Old Houses Walham Green Etching 19th - 20th century
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Douglas I. Smart Banks of the Seine Etching, drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Paine of Islington Mr. Ira Aldridge as Aaron in Titus Andronicus, Act IV , Scene II. 19th century
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New York 85, Aaron Siskind (United States, New York, New York City, 1903 - 1991) , 1976, Gelatin-silver print
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Douglas I. Smart Chateau Gaillard, France Etching 19th - 20th century
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Douglas I. Smart Toledo Bridge, No. 6, Spain Etching 19th - 20th century
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Douglas I. Smart Toledo Bridge, No. 2, Spain Etching 19th - 20th century
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Douglas W. MacLeod Cadiz, Spain Etching 19th - 20th century
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Paul Douglas Pearly Gates Color silkscren 1980
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Douglas W. MacLeod Ayr Prison "The last of Ayr Prison" Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Water Reservoir, Douglas Busch (United States, born 1951) , 1987, Platinum print
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Little Rocky Glenn, Douglas Busch (United States, born 1951) , 1984, Platinum print

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Dia Center for the Arts: Stan Douglas and Douglas Gordon: Double Vision
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Museum of Contemporary Art, LA: Stan Douglas
Using the languages of photography, television, and film, Douglas addresses complex issues of colonization, urban development, and mass media. His work has been ...

Art Institute of Chicago: FOCUS: Stan Douglas
Douglas’s work has been featured in several one-person museum exhibitions and included in nearly every major international exhibition of contemporary art in recent years, including Johannes...

Smithsonian, National Museum of African Art: Sokari Douglas Camp: Church Ede, A Tribute to Her Father
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Modern Museum: Moderna Museet Projekt: Douglas Gordon
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Kunsthalle Basel: Stan Douglas: Le Detroit
The film installation Le Détroit, to be shown for the first time in Europe in the glass-roofed room of the Kunsthalle Basel, takes the viewers to the heart of a city that is haunted by dilapidation and unemployment and divided into strict socia...

Vancouver Art Gallery: Douglas Gordon: New Works and Off-Site Projects
Curated by Russell Ferguson, formerly Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and currently UCLA Hammer Museum deputy director of exhibitions and programs and chief curator, Douglas Gordon examines the artist's explorat...

4 Design: No Limits: A One-Man Show by Douglas Poloway
Doug and his works were highlighted in a feature in the January 2003 issue of the e-zineIonOne LIVE magazine and he was named among the best digital photographers by IonOne on their
Juan Miro Foundation:
Something for Everyone: Cycle Selected by Ferran Barenblit, Frederic Montornés and Mònica Regàs; Works by Douglas Gordon, Joseph Grigely, João Louro, La pensée et l’erreur
Douglas Gordon will be showing in the Octagonal Room at the FJM, João Louro will be using the Espai 13 itself, and Joseph Grigely's proposal will consist of a poster – which is in fact the exhibit – displayed at selected points around the city as ...

BANG the gallery: Words of Art
His first show, Indirect Confessions, was staged at The Coffee Lounge in early 1998 and he was then granted a sponsorship to perform the same show at the Grahamstown Arts Festival the same year. Indirect Confessions was voted one of the top ten sh...

Ackland Art Museum: Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art In and Out of Africa
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Tate Modern: Between Cinema and a Hard Place
Ranging from film and video to sculpture, the exhibition features works by the following artists: Miroslaw Balka, Matthew Barney, Christian Boltanski, Janet Cardiff and George Bures-Miller, James Coleman, Stan Douglas,...

Frist Center for the Visual Arts: Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
In conjunction with Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist, the Frist Center has organized Fisk University’s Art Faculty: The Legacy of Aaron Douglas on view Friday, Jan. 11 through May 11, 2008, in the Conte Community Artists Gallery. With w...

Guild of Boston Artists: The Boston Lineage: Transmission Of Knowledge - A Tribute to Robert Douglas Hunter
Phaneuf's two paintings on exhibit, J'ai la Pêche, and Relics of the Sea are both decorative and allegorical. “These paintings were chosen because compositionally they emulate Hunter's decorative arrangements, which appeal to a refined aesthetic a...

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Roy Douglas: Roots and Culture – from Jamaica to Birmingham UK
Much of his work is highly personal and reflects his early life in Jamaica, his family and his memories. He also takes inspiration from every day life and his pieces have a practical function. Examples include the mythical ‘The Owl and the P...

Philadelphia Art Alliance: Douglas A. Kinsey: Blue Cairns
Doug approaches the development of his imagery with an expressed Zen-like economy. The strong subtle spiritual component remains as the most compelling attitude seen in his work. This abiding stillness expressed in the dark blue forms can at times...

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art
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Galerie Caprice Horn: Waves: Work by Douglas Busch
Initially, the pictures were studies of the constantly changing aspect of the sea, waves rolling shoreward and receding, formations of sand and stones, as well as the different lighting modulated by the sun’s position during the day and as evening...

Camden Arts Centre: Pioneer American Conceptual Artist Douglas Huebler
Many of the works are self-portraits and photographs documenting personal activities (following the sound of bird-calls in Central Park), photographs of friends and family (the artist Bernd Becher pulling faces), or photographs of strangers in cit...

Dagmar de Pooter Gallery: Cian Quayle: Photographic Readymades and Other Found Objects
This exhibition reprises diverse strands of Quayle‚s recent work, which are connected by his ongoing concern with travel, place and identity. The identity of Quayle's artwork is also investigated in terms of its changed materiality as he travels f...

artoose: Spring Open Weekend: Work by 14, Young, Contemporary Artists
We are also showing a collection of 80 cards made by contemporary surrealist Dan Bendel, recent 'chaos' paintings by Rufus Knightwebb, 'encapsulated' resin sculptures by Mark Russell, radical painting by post-pop artist Gary Colclough, dystopian c...

Deutsche Guggenheim: Douglas Gordon‘s The VANITY of Allegory
For The VANITY of Allegory, Gordon turned to the histories of art and film for his source material, appropriating existing works as so many readymades with which to articulate his theme. His installation — which houses its own cinema — includes lo...

Oakville Galleries: Body: New Art from the UK
This interest in the body is in part a product of the successive waves of feminism and a growing consciousness of the significance of sexual difference. Of equal importance, however, has been an articulation of the body that emerges from a heighte...

Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art: MAKING TIME: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video & Film
Time in art had for centuries been connected to the idea of permanence, and then, since the 1960s, performance. But where is time nowNULL In an age when global ...

Museum of Modern Art, Oxford: Enclosed and Enchanted
United by an interest in architecture and how the outside world can be reconfigured in the context of the gallery, these artists examine the duality in man-made, yet natural, spaces. The result is a kind of double enclosure, in which the appropria...

Museum of New Art: Piss Off: International Artists United by a Heavy Dose of Attitude
A situation that has spawned artists who defy by defying art itself. A situation that has allowed such artists to shout “piss off!” and, by so doing, allow for a glimpse of a different future for us all.    - Jane Speaks, from the exhibi...

Andy Warhol Museum: Summer of Andy: Program Celebrates Andy Warhol's 75th Birthday
Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett The exhibition, Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett, examines the connection between artist and muse through a series of collaborative sculptures and photographs by contemporary artist, Keith Edmier, and actress a...

Museum of New Art: Douglas Gordon: 24 Hour Psycho
Whenever I've watched 24 Hour Psycho, Gordon's slowed-down video presentation of Hitchcock's thriller, I somehow manage to miss the shower scene. I always arrive too early or too late, and have never had the patience to see it through. Most recent...

Halle Saint Pierre: Douglas Padilla: dougieland Paris
Set at the foot of Sacre Coeur, the gorgeous white cathedral in Montmarte, the 18th arrondissement, home at the turn of the century to the likes of Toulouse-Latrec, Van Gogh, Utrillo, and Picasso, Halle Saint Pierre, part of the Paris museum syste...

Auckland Art Gallery: Pressing Flesh: Skin, Touch, Intimacy
The show includes Maria Abramovic and Ulay, Pat Brassington, Steve Carr, Derrick Cherrie, Julian Dashper, Jae Hoon Lee, Luise Fong, Lucio Fontana, Douglas Gordon, Terrence Handscomb, Heavy Industries, Andrea Low, Fiona Pardington, Peter Peryer, An...

Talwar Gallery: Ranjani Shettar: The Indian Spring
Employing organic materials invested with tradition and history, Ranjani Shettar creates multidimensional works that bring forth the metaphysical attributes of residing within a changing physical environment. She exposes the permeability of the of...

Oakville Galleries: Walk Ways: At Centennial Square and in Gairloch Gardens
Artists: Francis Alÿs, Eleanor Antin, Janine Antoni and Paul Ramirez-Jonas, Mowry Baden, Jim Campbell, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Hamish Fulton, Sharon Harper, Martin Kersels, Tom Marioni, Matthew McCaslin, Curtis Mitchell, François Mo...

Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami: CUT/Film as Found Object
Curated by Stefano Basilico, Milwaukee Art Museum adjunct curator of contemporary art, the exhibition is organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum with the assistance of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami. It will be on view at MOCA du...

Norton Museum of Art: Jacob Lawrence: The Toussaint L'Ouverture Series
Born in 1917 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Jacob Lawrence was raised in Harlem where he not only witnessed the poverty and prejudice that most African-Americans faced in th...

Red Ink Studios: The Resurrection Show: A Soul Inhabits a New Body
Doug’s work is a blending of traditional and digital photography and computer art. With a background in commercial photography and the advances in photography and art in the digital age, Doug takes his work to a new level of creativity. He strives...

The High Museum: Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings
This experimental period is featured in the exhibition Ellsworth Kelly: The Early Drawings, 1948-1955. The exhibition includes approximately two hundred drawings and collages–many of which have never been exhibited before–that present ins...

Tampa Museum of Art: Transatlantic Dialogue: Contemporary Art In and Out of Africa
Included are the works of seven African artists: Skunder Boghossian, Sokari Douglas Camp, Rashid Diab, Amir Nour, Moyo Ogundipe, Moyo Okediji, and Outtara—and seven African American artists: Jean-Michel Basquiat, John B...

FUEL Collection: Doug Kinsey and Koosuke Ikeda in Two Exhibitions
As a young man Douglas A. Kinsey had the great good fortune to work and study under two of Canada’s more notable color-field minimalists Jean Goguen and Guido Molinari while attending what is now known as Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, ...

South Australian Museum: One Hundred Years of Australian Antarctic Photography
The South Australian Museum has a fantastic collection of artefacts from the renowned South Australian explorer, Sir Douglas Mawson. In addition a number of the photographs and artefacts in this exhibition come from the University of Adelaide's...

Milwaukee Art Museum: CUT/Film as Found Object: Video Works by Some of Today's Most Influential Artists
"The artists in this exhibition are creating some of today's most innovative work in the fields of film and video," said Milwaukee Art Museum curator Margaret Andera. "We are pleased to present this ground-breaking work in Milwaukee." In th...

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