Smithsonian American Art Museum / Gift of the Harmon Foundation ... came a dramatic shift in style and subject, as Johnson heeded Harlem Renaissance leader Alain Locke’s call to “do something ...

It's been a century since the artistic experimentation of the Harlem Renaissance gave birth to jazz, the music art form, in the roaring 1920s and 1930s. Without a doubt it was "one of the queerest ...

Another of the originators of the Harlem Renaissance, Charles S. Johnson worked with Alain Locke to plan the March 21 dinner. Believing that art and literature could help uplift African Americans ...

55 years after its disastrous Harlem Renaissance show ... throughout the exhibition. William H. Johnson's Woman in Blue (1943) expresses both African art and German Expressionism, while Archibald ...