1925, Winold Reiss, Langston Hughes -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: The acclaimed poet and novelist Langston Hughes was a close associate of New Negro artists such as Aaron Douglas and Jacob Lawrence, who illustrated many of his books. Hughes embraced jazz and the blues as the definitive creative expressions of Black modernity, giving voice to the experiences of racial oppression and the big-city aspirations that inspired the Great Migration as well as the daily realities of life in Harlem and beyond. Here, Hughes appears in a pose of dreamlike reverie.
1925, Winold Reiss, Langston Hughes -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: The acclaimed poet and novelist Langston Hughes was a close associate of New Negro artists such as Aaron Douglas and Jacob Lawrence, who illustrated many of his books. Hughes embraced jazz and the blues as the definitive creative expressions of Black modernity, giving voice to the experiences of racial oppression and the big-city aspirations that inspired the Great Migration as well as the daily realities of life in Harlem and beyond. Here, Hughes appears in a pose of dreamlike reverie.