A sphinx-like creature dominates the background of his Building More Stately Mansions.  
A sphinx-like creature dominates the background of his Building More Stately Mansions.  In another work, a figure points towards an industrial city on a hill in the distance while a star is placed on top of a woman and shackled hands reach up from below.  Besides Aspiration, (+) he'd create a mural series for the university where he taught from 1937 to 1966, and this artist would also create Depression-era murals for the Schomburgh Library in New York City.  As an illustrator, he created the cover art for Paul Morand's (*) Black Magic, but he may be better remembered for drawing the accompanying illustrations for the poems in James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones.  The artist behind Judgment Day and Aspects of Negro Life, FTP, give this African American artist of the Harlem Renaissance, known for his flat, often purple figures, exemplified in 1927's Noah's Ark.
A sphinx-like creature dominates the background of his Building More Stately Mansions.  
Aaron {Douglas} [4]