Research Catalog
Aaron Douglas portrait collection
- Title
- Aaron Douglas portrait collection [graphic].
- Publication
- <1910?-1980?>
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Douglas, Aaron | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
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- Description
- <2> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 26 cm.
- <10> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
- <2> photoprints : col. ;
- Summary
- Portraits of artist Aaron Douglas. Portraits cover a span of years from when Douglas was a teenager to his later years. In one view, Douglas is painting. In group photographs, Douglas is shown with his wife, Alta, Charles and Marie Johnson, Jackie Blackledge, E.J. Josey, and showing Arthur Schomburg his mural "Aspects of Negro Life: Song of the Towers." Also included is a candid shot of Alta with a high school senior. Quarter, half and full-length views are included.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Silver gelatin photoprints > 1910-1979
- Johnson, Marie Antoinette Burgette, 1892-1965
- Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956
- Photoprints > Color
- Group portraits > 1910-1979
- Portrait photographs > 1910-1979
- Blackledge, Jackie
- Josey, E. J., 1924-2009
- African American painters
- Douglas, Aaron
- African American artists
- Douglas, Alta Sawyer
- Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938
- Genre/Form
- Group portraits – 1910-1979.
- Portrait photographs – 1910-1979.
- Photoprints – Color.
- Silver gelatin photoprints – 1910-1979.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Photographs have written descriptive information; some are duplicates.
- Photographers include Frank Stewart, Bobby Sharp, Blackstone Studios and others.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Douglas, Aaron
- OCLC
- NYPG085000679-F
- Title
- Aaron Douglas portrait collection [graphic].
- Imprint
- <1910?-1980?>
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Local Note
- Negatives exist for some images.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Stewart, Frank. PhotographerSharp, Bobby. PhotographerTownsend (Lincoln, Neb.)Blackstone Studios (New York, N.Y.)
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Douglas, Aaron