Visual Slides: (Slides made by teacher from book resources)
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Rebirth, Aaron Douglas c. 1925
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The Janitor that Paints, Palmer Hayden 1937
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Untitled (Farm Couple at Work) William Johnson, c. 1941
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Barbecue, Archibald Motley, Jr. 1937
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Disciples Healing the Sick, Henry 0. Tanner, c. 1930
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The Blue Hole, Flood Waters, Little Miami River, Robert Scott Duncanson 1851
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Moon over a Harbor, Edward M Bannister 1868
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Forever Free, Edmonia Lewis 1867
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The Subway, Palmer Hayden c. 1930
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Just Back From Washington, Palmer Hayden c. 1938
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Go Down Death, Aaron Douglas 1927
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Crucifixion, Aaron Douglas. 1927
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Study for God's Trombone, Aaron Douglas. 1926
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Noah ‘s Ark, Aaron Douglas. c. 1927
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Jesus and the Three Mary's, William Johnson. 1935
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Aspects of the Negro L4fe: Song of the Towers. Aaron Douglas. 1934
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Les Demoiseiles d'Avignon, Pablo Picasso. 1906
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Three Musicians. Pablo Picasso. 1921
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Three Dancers, Pablo Picasso. 1925.
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Books:
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Patton, Sharon, F., African American Art. Oxford Publications 1990. (An essential guides to the visual artistic legacy of African Americans. Over 100 color, black and white productions.)
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Estelle, Kenneth, African American Portrait of a People, Visible Ink Press, 1994. (A good reference book that contains many biographical sketches of Prominent African American artists.)
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Henderson, Harry and Romare Bearden, A History of African American artists from 1972 to the present. New York. Pantheon Books, 1993. (Good reference book that explores the history of African American artists and art from colonial times to the present.)
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Fine, Elsa Honig. The Afro-American Artists: A Search for Identity. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc, 1973. (A reference of the history of the African American artists.)
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Abrams, Harry N. Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America. Studio Museum in Harlem Exhibition sponsored book. New York, 1987. (Explores the work of Aaron Douglas and the Harlem Renaissance. A good visual resource that includes color plates of Aaron Douglas's works used in the lessons of this unit.)
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Chambers, Veronica. The Harlem Renaissance. Chelsea House Publishers. Philadelphia. 1998. (Good resource book that gives an in-depth history of the Harlem Renaissance. This book also includes a picture essay.)
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Watson, Steve. The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African American Culture. 1920-1930. New York: Pantheon, 1995. (Resource book that explains the African American culture in detail during the Harlem Renaissance.)
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Locke, Alain, Ed. The New Negro. New York: Anthem, 1992. (Explains the life of African Americans at the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance.)
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Bloom, Harold, Ed. Black American Poets and Dramatists of the Harlem
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Renaissance. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1994. (A book that takes a look at the literary aspect of the Harlem Renaissance.)
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Haskins, Jim. The Harlem Renaissance. The Millbrook Press, Inc. 1996. (A book that guides its reader on a tour of the literature, music, and visual arts of the Harlem Renaissance.)
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Anderson, Jervis. This was Harlem, 1990-1950. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1982. (An book about the account of Harlem before the end, and what caused the fall of the Harlem Renaissance.)
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Van Vechten, Carl. Nigger Heaven. New York: Harper and Row paperback, 1971(preface reviews of the book by W.E.B. DuBois, Claude McKay, and James Weldon Johnson). (A white writer who was criticized writes this book about African Americans during the Harlem renaissance.)
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Wintz, Carry C. Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance. Houston: Rice University Press, 1988.
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Kellner, Bruce, Ed. The Harlem Renaissance: A Historical Dictionary for the Era. Westport, Ct: Greenwood Press, 1984. (A good dictionary that gives quick historical finds about the Harlem Renaissance.)
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McKay, Claude. Harlem: Negro Metropolis. New York: 1940. Harcourt Brace, 1968.
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Hughes, Langston and John Henrik Clarke, Eds. Harlem a Community in Transition. New York: Citadel Press, 1964. (This book gives a detail encounter about the black community as a whole before and after the Harlem Renaissance.)
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Britton, Crystal A., African American Art: The Long Struggle. Todtri Productions Limited. New York, NY. 1996. (A good resource book that introduces the reader to the beginning of African American art from the colonial period until the mid-1950's until present day.)
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Periodicals:
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Barfield, Deborah, Priceless: A look at the value of an African American artist's work to his family and the museum that possesses it. Newsday, September 1998, p. B6-B8. (A good article that examines the African American artists work and the response of the museum outsiders.)
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Seaman, Donna, Passion and Power: Books about black artists, Booklist, (Black History Month Issues, February 15, 1993. p. 1042-1043. article speaks about various black artists who were involved in the Harlem Renaissance.)
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Tate, Gregory Ironman, Harlem when it sizzled. Village Voice Literary Supplement, December 1982, pp. 11-15. Article covers Harlem and the flowering period of visual artists.)
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Lewis, David Levering. The Intellectual Luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance. Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Spring 1995, p.68 (Journal explores the Harlem Renaissance in depth and the work of Aaron Douglas.)
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Websites:
www.unc.edulcourses/eng81bri /harlem.html
www.usc.edu/isdlarchives/ethnicstudieslharlem.html
www.best.coml-fearless/Harlem.html www.si.umich.edulChicolHarlemltextljwjohnson.html