The Studio Journal
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz, silhouettes, and a decade that changed American art. The painters and sculptors of 1920s Harlem, and how to live with their legacy.
Art of the Harlem Renaissance: A Painter's Guide
Robert Lawrence walks through the painters, the music, and the visual language of the Harlem Renaissance, and how it shows up in his own jazz-era canvas prints.
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The Women of the Harlem Renaissance Museums Took Longest to See
Meet the women artists of the Harlem Renaissance, from Meta Warrick Fuller to Loïs Mailou Jones, and why museums recognized them so late.
Selma Burke and the Dime in Your Pocket
Selma Burke won a 1943 FDR commission and sketched Roosevelt live in 1944. Did her plaque shape the Roosevelt dime? The credit is still contested.
The Harlem Renaissance Wasn't Just Writers. Meet the Artists.
The Harlem Renaissance had painters, sculptors, and photographers too. Meet Augusta Savage, Jacob Lawrence, Motley, and Van Der Zee.
Richard Bruce Nugent: The Man Who Wouldn't Be Closeted
Richard Bruce Nugent wrote "Smoke, Lilies and Jade" for Fire!! in 1926 and refused shame. The Harlem Renaissance writer who lived out loud.
Queer Black Art, From Fire!! to the Whitney
Trace queer Black art from Nugent's 1926 Fire!! to Glenn Ligon at the Whitney. Documented history, cited from the archive.
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Reading about the Renaissance? 7 pieces hang in the salon.
Jazz age works on museum-grade canvas, each hung one at a time on a charcoal wall. The room is open.
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