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William H. Johnson 

was an American painter. 

Born in Florence, South Carolina, he became a student at the National Academy of Design in New York City, working with Charles Webster Hawthorne. 

He later lived and worked in France, where he was exposed to modernism.

Evangeline Montgomery 

is an American artist. 

Known primarily for her metal work, she has also worked as a printmaker, lithographer and curator. 

She received the Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999. 

Art historian Floyd Coleman has said she "is an important figure in American art. 

Jacob Lawrence 

was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. 

Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", an art form popularized in Europe which drew great inspiration from West African and Meso-American art.

Augusta Savage 
was an American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. 

She was also a teacher whose studio was important to the careers of a generation of artists who would become nationally known. 

She worked for equal rights for African Americans in the arts.

Charles Alston

was an American painter, sculptor, illustrator, muralist and teacher who lived and worked in the New York City neighborhood of Harlem. 

Alston was active in the Harlem Renaissance; Alston was the first African-American supervisor for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. 

Lilian Thomas Burwell 

is a Washington, DC sculptor and painter whose shaped paintings often blur the line between the two disciplines. 

Her artwork uses abstraction to create a personal response to the natural world.

Aaron Douglas 

was an artist and educator. 

Her work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection.

Aaron Douglas 

was an American painter, illustrator, and visual arts educator. 

He was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. 

He developed his art career painting murals and creating illustrations that addressed social issues around race and segregation in the United States by utilizing African-centric imagery.

Gwendolyn Knight 

was an American artist who was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, in the West Indies. 

Knight painted throughout her life but did not start seriously exhibiting her work until the 1970s.