One of the factors contributing to the rise of the Harlem Renaissance was the great migration of African Americans to northern cities, such as, New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., between 1919 and 1926. In his influential book The New Negro (1925), Locke described the northward migration of African Americans as “something like a spiritual emancipation.” Black urban migration, combined with trends in American society as a whole toward experimentation during the 1920s, and the rise of radical African American intellectuals, includ

Lawrence’s greatest artistic and commercial success came in his genre and history paintings. He painted many different series of works depicting the lives of many different African Americans. Subjects included Harriet Tubman, john Brown, Fredrick Douglas, and Toussaint L’Ovuverture. His historical paintings include the Migration Series, Harlem Series, The South Series, and War Series. Lawrence also worked n genre painting, the most successful series of which was the Builders Series. Sheldon’s Paper Boats is another example of genre painting. Lawrence was influenced more by Francisco Goya and Honore Daumier, who painted very stark and politically charged artworks.

During the Harlem Renaissance, intellectual dialogue, literary and artistic creation, blues and jazz, dance and musical theater came together and flowered as never before.

Lawrence was a very skilled colorist. He used vivid and bold colors as did Matisse, whereby the colors would not be manipulated to look three-dimensional. This flat appearance is probably Lawrence’s most obvious and typical style. In his later life, Lawrence experienced an episode of mental illness, the experience of which gave him unique insight into the mind, and he was able to convey feelings and moods with just a slouch posture.

As a high school student at Central High in Cleveland, Langston read the works of many black writers. After graduation, he went to Mexico to visit his father, who agreed to pay for his college education. On his way through the south, as he was crossing the Mississippi River, Langston wrote “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” It was printed in The Crisis in 1921.

ing, Locke, Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and W.E.B. Du Bois, editor of The Crisis magazine, all contributed to the particular styles and unprecedented success of black artists during the Harlem Renaissance period. Some major figures th

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