playwrights like Joseph Seamon Cotton and artists like Aaron Douglas and Lois Mailou Jones were all prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance. They helped to implement and enhance the movement of ...

Lois Mailou Jones led a long and prolific life as an artist, capturing an extraordinary range of subjects in her paintings. Throughout her life, her art was dedicated to highlighting and ...

Elizabeth Catlett once told an interviewer that one of the biggest public misconceptions about her is that she’s a great artist ... and Loïs Mailou Jones at Howard University in D.C., where ...

The book also includes histories of specific families, including the first Black whaling captain, the descendants of celebrated artist Lois Mailou Jones and novelist Dorothy West, the last writer of ...

Motley, “The Liar” (1936) (all photos Zoë Hopkins/Hyperallergic) In the galleries of The Harlem ... Lois Mailou Jones — that stopped me in my tracks. Don’t get me wrong, the Douglas ...

This community, which would give rise to the Harlem Renaissance ... 2003 at the Tacoma Museum of Art. International Harlem: Boston-born artist Loïs Mailou Jones and her husband Louis Vergniaud ...

(NewsNation) — When Loïs Mailou Jones first started drawing ... struggles of people of color through her work. Jones’ art developed during summer trips to New York at the start of the Harlem ...

With her new fashion-art collection, “Harlem Renaissance Reveire ... Johnson, Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Lois Mailou Jones, Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, Archibald Motley, and Palmer ...

The Harlem Renaissance, a cultural and artistic movement that thrived during the 1920s, was a remarkable period in American history. It was a time when African-American art, literature, and music ...

The MFA exhibit also features a Japanese-influenced piece from Boston-born Harlem Renaissance artist Loïs Mailou Jones, though visitors seeking something more representative of her oeuvre will ...