The Harlem Renaissance:

Portraits and Biographies

Click on the paintings below to read more about each famous person.


Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong


Bill "Bojangles" Robinson




Countee Cullen


W.E.B. Du Bois


Edward "Duke"
Kennedy Ellington


Marcus Garvey


James Mercer
Langston Hughes

William Henry Johnson


Horace Pippin

Paul Leroy Robeson


Augusta Christine Savage


Laura Wheeler Waring

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

Ethel Waters

Zora Neale Hurston

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