The Harlem Renaissance artist William H. Johnson’s prescient, social justice-forward final series of paintings is a testament to courage. Fighters for Freedom, organised as a touring exhibition ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum / Gift of the Harmon Foundation ... came a dramatic shift in style and subject, as Johnson heeded Harlem Renaissance leader Alain Locke’s call to “do something ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art ... William H. Johnson - those are throughout the exhibit. A sculpture from Augusta Savage, photographer James Van Der Zee and his scenes of affluent Black life in ...

It's been a century since the artistic experimentation of the Harlem Renaissance gave birth to jazz, the music art form, in the roaring 1920s and 1930s. Without a doubt it was "one of the queerest ...

(The Met’s show comes more than 35 years after the Studio Museum’s own 1987 exhibition on the art of the Harlem Renaissance.) William H. Johnson, “Woman in Blue,” circa 1943, oil on burlap.

William Henry Johnson, “Street Life ... One picks up the African thread in Harlem Renaissance art, taking an abstract Afro-Deco copper mask by the San Francisco artist Sargent Claude Johnson ...

A new exhibition coming to The Metropolitan Museum of Art this winter will whisk visitors back in time a century. Titled “The Harlem Renaissance ... Image: William Henry Johnson (American ...

It was an art movement that helped create a ... Archibald Motley captured it in the clubs, William H. Johnson in street life Harlem. DENISE MURRELL: He's creating icons. He's creating new Black ...

A young couple poses on West 127th Street in Harlem with their shiny new ... that was being taken up by these artists.” William Henry Johnson, “Jitterbugs V,” ca. 1941-42.

When we think about the Harlem Renaissance ... famous Black artists really flourished during that time period. Paintings from Laura Wheeler Waring, Jacob Lawrence and William H. Johnson - those ...