Most people just see the sphinx. Then they notice the circles looped onto the sphinx’s backside, connecting it to an inexplicable J shape. Then the eye moves up to the name of a 1920s magazine: “FIRE!

In conjunction with the MoMA’s exhibit One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North, the museum has released an online walking tour to experience the ...

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Even before they learn to read, children are captivated by the illustrations in their books. An exhibit at Brandywine River Museum of Art focuses on three books that use illustration to beautifully ...

Introduction : making black modern in the medium of illustration -- An overview of Harlem Renaissance illustrations and their reception. Strategizing from spaces between : Aaron Douglas and the art of ...

The Delaware Art Museum returns visitors to the 1920s during “Jazz Age Illustration,” the first major exhibition to survey the art of popular illustration in the United States between 1919 and 1942.

“I come here when I need creative inspiration,” artist Leon Johnson tells me as we emerge from the subway into the beating heart of Harlem. Around us, market stalls sell dangly earrings, incense and ...

Chapter 1 An Interesting Assignment 9 -- Chapter 2 Family History 17 -- Chapter 3 Books, Books, and More Books 27 -- Chapter 4 Welcome to Harlem 35 -- Chapter 5 Promenades and Prizes 45 -- Chapter 6 ...