But it lacked a visual identity until Aaron Douglas, a few years after earning his ... he would become known as “the father of African American art.” Douglas’s artistic style from the era crackled ...

Susan Earle, curator of European and American art at the Spencer Museum, organized Aaron Aaron Douglas self-portrait (1954). Growing up in Topeka, Cyrene Holt knew that her uncle – “the artist ...

Distinct yet intersecting debates concerning the possibilities of a global art history and a decolonial or decolonized art history have reoriented the mainstream of the discipline’s focus in the last ...