Project Editor: Amber Harris Leichner, English 418/818, Fall 2005

Painting

Aaron Douglas' picture, "Window Cleaning," has been
selected by the Nebraska Art Association as the 1936 addi-
ton to its permanent collection which hangs in the corri-
dors of Morrill Hall. Mr. Douglas was graduated from the
school of fine arts of the University in 1922, and was the
only colored student ever elected to membership in the
University Art Club. His painting is the first by a former
Nebraskan to be purchaed by the association since William
Schwartz' "Tents of Illusions" in 1927.

Mr. Douglas now lives in New York City, and has done
outstanding murals and book illustrations for many leading
intstitions and authors. He is a member of the executive
committee of the American Artists' Congress.