TO DO: Take out your Purple WWI packet & Blank sheet of paper January 26th & 27th TO DO: Take out your Purple WWI packet & Blank sheet of paper

Harlem Renaissance Art Analysis Explanatory Note Critical Commentary What is the title? Who is the author/painter/artist? When was it produced? What do you observe? What is going on in the image? What information does this give your about the early 1900s and the Harlem Renaissance? What information does this give about the African American experience? ***The term “Negro” was not considered derogatory or offensive at this time. The term dates to the turn of the twentieth century and represented a moving forward from past stereotypical forms of representation.

Title: Idylls of the Deep South Artist: Aaron Douglas Date: 1934

February 10th TO DO: Take out your annotated notes from yesterday for the Harlem Renaissance paintings

Title: Midsummer Night in Harlem Author: Palmer Hayden Date: 1938

Title: Negro Soldier Artist: Malvin Gray Johnson Date: 1934

Title: Postman Artist: Malvin Gray Johnson Date: 1934

Saturday Night Artist: Archibald J. Motley Jr. Date: 1935

Title: Nous Quatre à Paris (We Four in Paris) Artist: Palmer Hayden Date: ca. 1930

Title: God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse Author: James Weldon Johnson Date: 1927

Title: The Janitor Who Paints Artist: Palmer Hayden Date: ca. 1930

Title: The Creation Artist: Aaron Douglas Date: 1935

Negro Masks Artist: Malvin Gray Johnson Date: 1932

Aaron Douglas Aspiration, 1936

Palmer Hayden Jeunesse [youth], 1927