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Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance.
A term describing a flowering of activity among black American artists in the 1920s, centred on the Harlem district of New York. It was primarily a literary movement, but there were also visual artists involved, notably Aaron Douglas (1899–1979), who is regarded as the first black American painter consciously to incorporate African imagery in his pictures. An exhibition entitled ‘Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance’ was held at the Hayward Gallery, London, in 1997.

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