Slide Images for October 19

Couple Wearing Racoon Coats with a Cadillac, Taken on West 127th Street, Harlem New York

James Vanderzee

1932

Scenes of Harlem Life from the 1920s

I, Too

Langston Hughes

1932

Black & Tan Fantasy
Duke Ellington
1927

 Black Prophet 

from Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro

Winold Reiss

1925

Portrait of Langston Hughes

Winold Reiss

c. 1925

Self-Portrait

William H. Johnson

1929

Anna Washington Derry

Laura Wheeler Waring

c. 1927

 Wall Painting From the Tomb of Nebamun

Egypt

c. 1450 BCE

 Scene from The Papyrus of Hunefer

Egypt

c. 1375 BCE

Fang Mask

Gabon, Africa

19th century

 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon

Pablo Picasso

1907

 Portrait of Ambroise Vollard

Pablo Picasso

1910

 Play De Blues/Misery

Illustration by Aaron Douglas

Poem by Langston Hughes

1927

Song of the Towers

Aaron Douglas

1934

Crucifixion

Aaron Douglas

1927

Aspiration

Aaron Douglas

1936