Fondation Giacometti

The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s-1940s was  the first African American-led movement of international modern art. Many of its leading artists, including William H. Johnson, Meta Warwick Fuller, Archibald Motley and Laura Wheeler Waring spent extended periods of time as expatriates living and working in France, and elsewhere in Europe. This lecture will explore the wide-ranging aesthetic strategies with which the artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new  Black cities of Harlem, Chicago and beyond, as well as the affinities and exchanges between expatriate Harlem artists and their European and Caribbean modernist peers,  including Henri Matisse, Germaine Casse,  Kees Van Dongen, Ronald Moody and Edvard Munch.  

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