Lois Mailou Jones led a long and prolific life as an artist, capturing an extraordinary range of subjects in her paintings.

James Van Der Zee was an African-American photographer known for his distinctive portraits from the Harlem Renaissance. The artist used photography as a means not only to celebrate black culture but ...

African-American writers, musicians, artists and academics across the country sought to promote confidence, dignity and self-expression—a movement that would blossom into the Harlem Renaissance.

In the mid-1920s, a new art movement, which later became known as the Harlem Renaissance, was born. The movement did not appear spontaneously, but was consciously created by African-American ...

1926) is an African American artist who works in assemblage ... A central figure of the Harlem Renaissance was Augusta Savage (1892-1962), an African American sculptor. "The Harp" was inspired ...

The Studio Museum of Harlem in New York City ... little-known chapter in the history of American art. Entitled "Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-65 ...