Aaron Douglas was an American painter, illustrator, and visual arts educator. He was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He developed his art career painting murals and creating illustrations th
Portrait by Betsy Graves Reyneau
Into Bondage (1936) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., in 2022.
Portrait of Douglas by Edwin Harleston (1930), featured in the Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Betsy Graves Reyneau was an American painter, best known for a series of paintings of prominent African Americans for the exhibition “Portraits of Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin” that, with tho
Artist Betsy Graves Reyneau standing besides portrait of Dr. George Washington Carver, 1948