Early 1920's to 1930's
The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African-American social thought which was expressed through the visual arts, as well as through music (Louis Armstrong, Eubie Blake, Fats Waller and Billie Holiday), dance (Josephine Baker), theater (Paul Robeson) and literature (Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and W.E.B. DuBois). Centered in the Harlem district of New York City, the New Negro Movement (as it was called at the time) had a profound influence across the Unites States and even around the world.
The intellectual and social freedom of the era triggered a widespread migration of Black Americans from the rural south to the industrial centers of the north - and especially to New York City.
Artists at the core of the Harlem Renaissance movement included William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones and the sculptor and printmaker Sargent Claude Johnson. Other prominent artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance included Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence and Archibald Motley.
Later artists influenced by the movement included Charles Sebree, John Biggers, Hale Woodruff, Beauford Delaney and Ernie Barnes (Barnes' Sugar Shack is the now-famous painting featured at the end of the TV show Good Times).
Artists closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance are listed below. Or you can click here for a list of all African-American artists in our database.
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Chronological Listing of Harlem Renaissance Artists |
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Warrick Fuller James Van Derzee Sargent Claude Johnson Palmer Hayden Archibald Motley Augusta Savage Dox Thrash Aaron Douglas |
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Barthe William H. Johnson Lois Mailou Jones Charles
Alston Allan Rohan Crite Romare
Bearden Jacob Lawrence |
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