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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 ...
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 ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s massive new jazz ... and James Van Der Zee may help recast Johnson’s singular career. “Throughout the Harlem Renaissance and into the 1940s, Johnson is ...
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 ...
In “The Harlem Renaissance ... collections of African art, and for decades, it offered Black American artists both education and liberation. William H. Johnson arrived in 1926, Palmer Hayden ...
When we think about the Harlem Renaissance, we usually think about ... Paintings from Laura Wheeler Waring, Jacob Lawrence and William H. Johnson - those are throughout the exhibit.