Charleston Renaissance
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The Charleston Renaissance is a period between World Wars I and II in which the city of Charleston, South Carolina, experienced a boom in the arts as artists, writers, architects, and historical prese
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, Bayou Scene , watercolor, 1920.
Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, The Rector's Kitchen and View of St. Michael's, watercolor, 1910–15.
Alfred Hutty, Magnolia Gardens, oil on canvas, 1920.
Edwin Harleston
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Edwin Augustus Harleston was an American artist and founding president of the Charleston, South Carolina, branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He is known for his
Charleston Renaissance
…natives, while Taylor hailed from elsewhere in the state and Hutty came from New York. Other visual artists considered part of the movement include Edwin Harleston, Anne Taylor Nash, and William Posey Silva. Visiting artists such as Ellen Day Hale, Gabrielle D. Clements, Edward Hopper, and Childe Hassam are sometimes…
Edwin Harleston, Portrait of a Woman, oil on canvas, 1920.
Portrait of Aaron Douglas (1930), featured in the Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art