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 ...

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.

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 ...

In addition to William H. Johnson’s 1943 painting ... at Atlanta’s HBCU colleges are treasure troves of Black art “Harlem Renaissance” celebrates the movement, born in New York in the ...

By Zachary Small Even before joining the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the curator Denise Murrell was dreaming up an exhibition dedicated to the Harlem ... Blue” by William H. Johnson, who spent ...

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.