Born May 26, 1899 Topeka, Kansas Died February 22, 1979 Nashville, Tennessee American painter, illustrator, and educator Aaron Douglas's distinctive artistic style brought the Harlem Renaissance to life on magazine covers, book jackets, and...

Aaron Douglas (May 26, 1898 – February 3, 1979) was an American painter and a major figure in the Harlem...

Aaron Douglas isn't an artist we hear much about these days, except in classes in African American art history. But the work of this once well-known Harlem Renaissance illustrator and painter has now surfaced in two Washington venues: Arena Stage and the Corcoran...

LAWRENCE, KAN. A University of Kansas doctoral student is unraveling the story of Aaron Douglas, the Kansas-born artist who was known as "the dean of African-American painters" in the 1920s and 1930s. Douglas died at age 79 in 1979 in Nashville,...

Can't they all get along? Not by a long shot.Now some of history's toughest characters are mixing it up on the History Channel for "Barbarians Week," a return to the dark forces of tribal expansion as they tear away at the established civilizations of their...