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Visual Art During the Harlem Renaissance

Firebirds, a lithograph by Romare Bearden.

Firebirds, a lithograph by Romare Bearden.

Citation Information: Bearden, Romare, “Firebirds,” Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/cdb25bced6c31ae5d2fcbd4031a8bf02.

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Courtesy of the Tubman African-American Museum via Digital Library of Georgia.

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Visual Art During the Harlem Renaissance

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Firebirds, a lithograph by Romare Bearden.

A 1939 photograph taken at the Harlem Art Center by Berenice Abbott.

Excerpt from an oral history interview with painter Archibald Motley, 1978.

A handwritten list of pictures submitted to the Whitney Galleries by Beauford Delaney, including two oils, four charcoals, and ten pastels.

A photograph of artist and teacher Lois Jones.

A photograph of Palmer Hayden painting.

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