Aaron Douglas papers, 1921-1973.

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Aaron Douglas papers, 1921-1973.

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Materials include biographical data; general and personal correspondence with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Harmon Foundation, John Cowles of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune who commissioned Douglas to make a portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune, and others (1921-1974); early drawings, sketches, watercolors, writings, lectures, speeches, and reports by Douglas and others; classroom material from when Douglas was head of the Department of Art at Fisk University; programs, pamphlets, and leaflets; material about exhibitions by Douglas and others; material on the Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity; notes; photographs; magazines, guides, directories, and other art related publications; and news clippings about Douglas and art in general.

7 linear ft.

John Hope and Aurelia E. Franklin Library. Special Collections & Archives

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Cowles, John, 1898-1983

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Fisk University. Dept. of Art.

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Harmon Foundation

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