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PAUL ROBESON
1933 Hand
gravure print.
Located in The
Studio Museum In
Harlem

James
Van Der Zee
with his Father
and Brothers.
James (on
the left) was
The Main
Harlem
Renaissance
Black
Photographer

2005
EXHIBITORS

ZORA-NEALE
HURSTON
1935 Hand
gravure print.
Located in
The Studio
Museum in
Harlem

INTRODUCTION

MARCH'S EXHIBITOR

As the Jazz Age dawned in 1919, Black artist, writers,
and musicians flocked to a little-known part of
Manhattan called Harlem. Soon their talent and faith
in the future began to demolish any view about the
artist limits of Black creativity as they etched a Black
neighborhood onto the cultural map of the world.

The Harlem Renaissance, the name given to this
fertile period of creativity, left a rich cultural legacy.
This exhibition of Harlem Renaissance's Art of Black
America, explores the visual aspect of that legacy, by
taking a comprehensive look at the compelling images
of the era through a variety of works of a small, yet
representative group of painters, sculptors, and
photographers.

There could be no better example of this tradition than
what we are presenting here as our Education 101. It
is our desire at The African Art Wholesale Shop, to
provide an example for you and your children, to
experience together the growth, vigor, scholarship,
and depth of vision that these artist had during the
20's, that came from the vitality, creativity, and dreams
of the Harlem Renaissance, which are very much with
us today.