Aaron Douglas
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personAmerican, 1899–1979play_circleStream Art
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Selected Works32

Museum Acquisitions

14 Institutions
Whitney
Whitney
Whitney
Whitney
MoMA
NGA Washington
Met
Met
Met
Art Institute of Chicago
Cleveland Museum of Art
Milwaukee Art Museum
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
High Museum
Georgia Museum of Art
Ackland Art Museum
Ackland Art Museum
Ackland Art Museum
Spencer Museum of Art
Spencer Museum of Art
Delaware Art Museum
Delaware Art Museum

Previous Sales 7

For Sale 2

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Market52 auction results

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$8.0K – $170K
2 of 3 paintings lots with prices
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$66.5K
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$95.8K
2 priced paintings lots
calendar_todayLast Painting Sale
May 2026 · $170K
Latest priced sale: Self Portrait - 40.6 x 50.8 cm - $82/sq cm
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Paintings: $95.8K medianWorks on paper: $5.1K medianEditioned prints: $51.0K medianPosters/ephemera: $17.5K median
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Publications1

Exhibition Catalog 1

Yale University Press · 2007
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Current Exhibitions0

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Boston Art Review (BAR) has published an article titled “Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone” that reconstructs the life of the 19th-century sculptor Edmonia…
cultureMay 18, 2026
This article profiles Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937), the pioneering African American artist who achieved international fame in the 19th and early 20…
cultureMay 10, 2026
This profile explores the Upper West Side residence of Crystal McCrary McGuire and Raymond J. McGuire, a power couple deeply embedded in New York City…
cultureMay 9, 2026
The United States government transformed the role of the artist during the Great Depression by treating art as a vital public resource rather than a p…
cultureApr 5, 2026
A new documentary, *Once Upon a Time in Harlem*, is screening at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, offering an intimate look at the Harlem Renaissan…
cultureJan 28, 2026
The Frary Gallery at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., will host its first solo exhibition, titled "Ceremony," by awa…
exhibitionsOct 1, 2025
California State University, Northridge's Art Galleries presents two new exhibitions exploring Los Angeles, place, and people. The Main Gallery hosts …
exhibitionsSep 4, 2025
A new exhibition at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, South Carolina, titled “Picturing Freedom,” highlights Harriet Tubman’s role in the Combah…
exhibitionsJun 19, 2025
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, part of the New York Public Library, is celebrating its centennial with the exhibition “100: A Cen…
exhibitionsJun 19, 2025
The May 2025 roundup of Black art news reports the deaths of two influential figures: international curator Koyo Kouoh and artist-curator Evangeline J…
newsJun 8, 2025
Diedrick Brackens, a Los Angeles-based artist known for his woven tapestries, is experiencing a major career moment in 2025. The Savannah College of A…
exhibitionsMay 7, 2025
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