Go Down Death

1934
(American, 1899–1979)
Framed: 124.5 x 94 x 3.8 cm (49 x 37 x 1 1/2 in.); Unframed: 121.9 x 91.5 cm (48 x 36 in.)
Art © Heirs of Aaron Douglas/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Douglas founded the art department at Fisk University, where he also created many celebrated murals.

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The leading painter of the Harlem Renaissance, Douglas based this painting on an illustration he made for God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927), a book by noted author and civil rights advocate James Weldon Johnson. Its subject tells the story of a winged angel of death who races through the heavens on horseback to rescue a woman from a life of suffering.
Go Down Death

Go Down Death

1934

Aaron Douglas

(American, 1899–1979)
America, 20th century

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