1. 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

2. 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.

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

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

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

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

7. Title: Postman Artist: Malvin Gray Johnson Date: 1934

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

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

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

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

12. Title: The Creation Artist: Aaron Douglas Date: 1935

13. Negro Masks Artist: Malvin Gray Johnson Date: 1932

14. Aaron Douglas Aspiration, 1936

15. Palmer Hayden Jeunesse [youth], 1927