AARON DOUGLAS

AARON DOUGLAS

• Born may 26, 1898 in Topeka Kansas. Died February 3, 1979
• Mother Elizabeth Douglas, Father Aaron Douglas
• Artist, Author, Teacher
• Father of African American Art

EDUCATION

• Graduated from Topeka High School in 1917
• University of Lincoln Nebraska
• Colombia University to get teaching degree
• Taught at Fisk University for 27 years
• Founded the Art department at Fisk University

FIRST KNOWN FOR

• illustrations for the two most important African-American magazine
• Julis Rosenwald Foundation sent him a fellowship in 1938
• Which funded his paintings to Haiti

STYLE AND INFLUENCE

• modern European, ancient Egyptian, and West African art
• studied African and Modern European art at the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania
• studied more traditional French painting and drawing techniques at the Academie Scandinave.

AWARDS

• Countless Honors
• Honorary Doctorate

DIED

• Pulmonary embolism
• February 3, 1979

In Memory Of Aaron Douglas
"Aaron Douglas was one of the most accomplished of the interpreters of our institutions and cultural values. He captured the strength and quickness of the young; he translated the memories of the old; and he projected the determination of the inspired and courageous."
-Walter J. Leonard-