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[] =James Van Der Zee 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(1886-1983)
Photographer. Born June 29, 1886 in Lenox, Massachusetts. After attending schools in Lenox, he went to New York City c.1906 and held a series of jobs as a waiter and elevator operator. From 1909 to 1915 he played in Fletcher Henderson's band and the John Wanamaker Orchestra (and in an orchestra that accompanied silent films). Attracted to photography, Van Der Zee got a job as a darkroom assistant, and after learning the fundamentals of photography he opened his own studio in Harlem (1916). On the upper end of Manhattan, Harlem was only then becoming a haven for African Americans, and during the next five decades he would photograph African Americans of all social classes and occupations. He took thousands of pictures - mostly indoor portraits, though he occasionally went out and photographed the Harlem scene. Although Van Der Zee photographed many of the African American celebrities who passed through Harlem, most of his work was of the straightforward commercial studio variety - weddings and funerals (including pictures of the dead for grieving families), family groups, teams, lodges, clubs, or people simply wanting to have a record of themselves in fine clothes. He often supplied props or costumes and in his developing - which he did himself - he would add pictorial touches with an air brush or double-printed images. Forgotten for many years, Van Der Zee had retired and was reduced to poverty when in 1969 the Metropolitan Museum of Art mounted an exhibition called //Harlem on My Mind// that brought him and his work renewed attention and rewards. He took up photography again in 1980 until his death. James van der zee



[] Photographer. Born June 29, 1886 in Lenox, Massachusetts. After attending schools in Lenox, he went to New York City c.1906 and held a series of jobs as a waiter and elevator operator. From 1909 to 1915 he played in Fletcher Henderson's band and the John Wanamaker Orchestra (and in an orchestra that accompanied silent films). Attracted to photography, Van Der Zee got a job as a darkroom assistant, and after learning the fundamentals of photography he opened his own studio in Harlem (1916). On the upper end of Manhattan, Harlem was only then becoming a haven for African Americans, and during the next five decades he would photograph African Americans of all social classes and occupations. He took thousands of pictures - mostly indoor portraits, though he occasionally went out and photographed the Harlem scene. Although Van Der Zee photographed many of the African American celebrities who passed through Harlem, most of his work was of the straightforward commercial studio variety - weddings and funerals (including pictures of the dead for grieving families), family groups, teams, lodges, clubs, or people simply wanting to have a record of themselves in fine clothes. He often supplied props or costumes and in his developing - which he did himself - he would add pictorial touches with an air brush or double-printed images. Forgotten for many years, Van Der Zee had retired and was reduced to poverty when in 1969 the Metropolitan Museum of Art mounted an exhibition called //Harlem on My Mind// that brought him and his work renewed attention and rewards. He took up photography again in 1980 until his death.

James VanDerZee was born on June 29, 1886 in //**Lenox, Massachusetts**//. James VanDerZee was one of the first Afro-American Photographers and is remembered as one of the most important photographers of the Afro-American community. James was a self-taught photographer whose career spanned over eighty years. His early years were spent working as a waiter at the //**Hotel Aspinwall**// in the small mountain resort town of Lenox where he purchased his first camera in 1899 from a mail-order company and began taking pictures of his family and friends. He is best known for his photographs of the people and times of the //**Harlem Renaissance**//. James moved to //**Harlem**// in 1905 and opened his first studio in 1916 and Gaynella died in 1976 and in 1978 James married Donna Mussenden who successfully promoted his work. From 1980 to 1983 James produced a series of portraits of famous African Americans which included, //**Muhammad Ali**//, //**Cicely Tyson**//, //**Ossie Davis**//, //**Ruby Dee**//, and //**Bill Cosby**//. Over the years James received many awards including an honorary doctorate from //**Howard University**//. James VanDerZee died in Washington, DC on May 15, 1983 at the age of 96 ||   ||   ||
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Early life
He was born in Topeka, Kansas, to Aaron and Elizabeth Douglas. He developed an interest in art during his childhood and was encouraged in his pursuits by his mother. A native of, Douglas graduated from in 1917. He received his degree from the  in 1922. In 1925, Douglas moved to, settling in. Just a few months after his arrival he began to produce illustrations for both and Opportunity, the two most important magazines associated with the. He also began studying with, a German artist who had been hired by to illustrate //The New Negro//. Reiss's teaching helped Douglas develop the modernist style he would employ for the next decade. Douglas’s engagement with African and Egyptian design brought him to the attention of and Alain Locke, who were pressing for young African American artists to express their African heritage and African American folk culture in their art. Douglas was heavily influenced by the African culture he painted for. His natural talent plus his newly acquired inspiration allowed Douglas to be considered the "Father of African American arts." That title led him to say," Do not call me the Father of African American Arts, for I am just a son of Africa, and paint for what inspires me." For the next several years, Douglas was an important part of the circle of artists and writers we now call the. In addition to his magazine illustrations for the two most important African-American magazines of the period, he illustrated books, painted canvases and murals, and tried to start a new magazine showcasing the work of younger artists and writers. It was during the early 1930s that Douglas completed the most important works of his career, his murals at and at the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library (now the ). Throughout his early career, Douglas looked for opportunities to increase his knowledge about art. In 1928-29, Douglas studied African and Modern European art at the in  on a grant from the foundation. In 1931 he traveled to, where he spent a year studying more traditional French painting and drawing techniques at the Academie Scandinave.

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Later life
In 1939, he moved to, where he founded the Art Department at and taught for 27 years. Coinciding with this move was a shift to a more traditional painting style, including portraits and landscapes like the one at right. Aaron Douglas has been called the father of African American art. His striking illustrations, murals, and paintings of the life and history of people of color depict an emerging black American individuality in a powerfully personal way. Working primarily from the 1920s through the 1940s, Douglas linked black Americans with their African past and proudly showed black contributions to society decades before the dawn of the civil rights movement. His work made a lasting impression on future generations of black artists.//

> In the film Hidden Heritage: The Roots of Black American Painting, David C. Driskell—an artist and a leading educator and scholar of African American art—discussed Aaron Douglas's role in art history: "Douglas is the leading painter of the [Harlem] Renaissance movement. A pioneering Africanist, he accepted the legacy of the ancestral arts of Africa and developed his own original style, geometric symbolism. At a time when it was unpopular to dignify the black image in white America, Douglas refused to compromise and see blacks as anything less than a proud and majestic people." > Best represented by black-and-white drawings with black silhouetted figures, as well as by portraits, landscapes, and murals, Douglas's art fused modernism with ancestral African images, including fetish motifs, masks, and artifacts. His work celebrates African American versatility and adaptability, depicting people in a variety of settings—from rural and urban scenes to churches to nightclubs. His illustrations in books by leading black writers established him as the black artist of the period. Later in his career, Douglas founded the Art Department at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. > Beginning in the 1920s, Douglas's illustrations appeared in books by, , Alain Locke, and other prominent black writers, activists, and intellectuals. They were also featured in such magazines as The Crisis , //Opportunity////

Born in Kansas in 1898, Douglas received a BA in art from the University of Nebraska. Douglas taught art in Kansas City for a few years until he decided to pursue a career as an artist and headed to New York to earn his MA from Columbia University. Douglas also studied with Winold Reiss, an illustrator from Germany, who encouraged him to look to African art and themes for inspiration in his work. Douglas soon began integrating African design in his work which caught the attention of Alain Locke, who later called Douglas the "pioneering Africanist." Douglas designed and illustrated Alain Locke's "The New Negro" and contributed regularly to such widely read journals as the NAACP's THE CRISIS and The Urban League's OPPORTUNITY. In 1928, Douglas became the first president of the Harlem Artists Guild, which was successful in helping African American artists obtain projects under the Works Progress Administration. In 1940 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he founded the Art Department at Fisk University and taught for 29 years.