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 ...

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 ...

His ambition took him from small town South Carolina to the heart of the Harlem ... s Johnson Collection (no relation), where some of the artist’s work resides. But before William H.

The Harlem Renaissance ... which was established by William E. Harmon, a white real estate developer. The foundation awarded ...

The Harlem Renaissance changed the world. We’ve gathered dozens of images, many that we’ve never published, showing the people and the art that they created. By The New York Times By The New ...

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.