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(Mural Study for Cravath Hall, Fisk University)

Aaron DouglasWW-1929-166099

1929·Gouache on board·Overall: 17 1/2 × 35 3/8 in. (44.5 × 89.9 cm)

<p>Aaron Douglas, <em>(Mural Study for Cravath Hall, Fisk University)</em>, 1929. Gouache on board, overall: 17 1/2 × 35 3/8 in. (44.5 × 89.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Ganzi Family Endowment, the Nancy and Fred Poses Endowment, the DeMartini Family Endowment, the Meg and Bennett Goodman Family Foundation, the Julie and Doug Ostrover Family Endowment, and the Nancy and Steve Crown Family Endowment 2023.17</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1929
Medium: Gouache on board
Dimensions: Overall: 17 1/2 × 35 3/8 in. (44.5 × 89.9 cm)
Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art
Artist: Aaron Douglas

Artist

Aaron Douglas

Drawing

Aaron Douglas is an American artist recognized as a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Working primarily in painting and mural-making, he developed a distinctive graphic vocabulary of silhouetted figures, concentric circles, and muted, layered color planes drawn from African sculptural traditions and Art Deco geometry. His murals for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem remain among his most significant public works.

Topeka, United States

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