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Project Editor: Amber Harris Leichner, English 418/818, Fall 2005 Editorial Note:
From Daily Nebraskan 7 October 1927, page 1
Critics Praise Work of Negro
Artist and Poet
The following article is a criticism of the work of a young negro, Aaron Douglas, who was graduated from the
drawing and painting department of the School of Fine Arts three years ago. Mr. Douglas illustrated a book of Negro verse written by James Weldon Johnson.
"With a collaboration which is
truly vital and a vision which is truly
spiritual, Aaron Douglas, the artist who conceived the eight symbolic drawings which do so much to en- hance the book and vivify its mes- sage, gives us in an entrely sub- limated, abstract way a background of sense and feeling in which there is this great, timeless, everlasting prim- itive folk-quality. In seting this vision up before America of today, and especially before the young Ne- gro poets of today, both the poet and the artist have made a significant contribution. Contemporary Amer- ican poetry and art are richer for it, but richer still the prospects of the Negro poet and his tradition."—from August "Survey Graphic," 1927.
Source:Daily Nebraskan "RG 38/01/02"
Periodical: Box: Folder: Archives and Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
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