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February 5, 2008
Susan Earle, ed. Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist Exh. cat. New Haven and Lawrence: Yale University Press in association with Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 2007. 272 pp.; 139 color ills.; 50 b/w ills. Cloth $60.00 (9780300121803)

Exhibition schedule: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, September 8–December 2, 2007; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, January 19–April 13, 2008; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, May 9–August 3, 2008; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, August 30–November 30, 2008

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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.10

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Aaron Douglas. Building More Stately Mansions (1944). Oil on canvas. 54 x 42 in. (137.2 x 106.7 cm). Fisk University Galleries, Nashville.

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While many scholars celebrate Aaron Douglas as the foremost visual artist of the Harlem Renaissance, there remains a widespread unfamiliarity with the diversity of his artistic production and his manifold contributions to the New Negro Movement. Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist, the first nationally touring retrospective of his work, attends to this disparity. Organized by Susan Earle and coordinated by Stephanie Fox Nappe for the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas, the...