Harlem As Muse
Harlem, New York is a neighborhood immortalized and made internationally famous by the cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. The artists featured this week looked to Harlem as a subject and source of inspiration.
Tsuguharu Foujita
20th century
Luis Cruz Azaceta
1983
Hughie Lee-Smith
1994
Elizabeth Catlett
1944
Hale Woodruff
1930
David Burke
WPA
1935–43
Norman Lewis
1978
James Van Der Zee
ca. 1920
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1936, printed ca. 1979
William Henry Johnson
ca. 1941
Romare Bearden
1971
Jacob Lawrence
1942
Faith Ringgold
1985