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Let My People Go

Aaron DouglasWW-1930-009820
1930·Oil on Masonite·48 × 36 in. (121.9 × 91.4 cm)

Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2015

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Year
1930
Dimensions
48 × 36 in. (121.9 × 91.4 cm)

Artist

Aaron Douglas
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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Year
1930
Dimensions
48 × 36 in. (121.9 × 91.4 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1930-009820

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Artist

Aaron Douglas

Aaron Douglas

Drawing

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