Hello hello! Today I'm painting Aaron Douglas's Aspiration (1936). An artist of the Harlem Renaissance, Douglas's work was the inspiration behind the stylized musical number "Almost There," from Disney's The Princess and the Frog (2009).

Quotes and further reading:
Earle, Susan, ed. Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist. Yale University Press: New Haven. 2007.

Video footage from Disney's The Princess and the Frog (2009)

Images:
Aspiration, 1936 (Aaron Douglas, American)
Self-Portrait, ca.1945 (Aaron Douglas, American)
Aspects of Negro Life: An Idyll of the Deep South, 1934 (Aaron Douglas, American)
Cover design for the "Sunflower," Topeka High School Yearbook, 1917
Nicodemus, 1899 (Henry O. Tanner, American)
Topeka, Kansas postcard, ca.1900-1910s
Topeka High School postcard, 1910s
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Art Club, 1921
Ethel Ray Nance, far right, with friends, ca.1922
Alta, 1936 (Aaron Douglas, American)
Portrait of Aaron Douglas, 1930 (Edwin Harleston, American)
Sahdji (Tribal Women), 1925 (Aaron Douglas, American)
Weary as I Can Be, 1926 (Aaron Douglas, American)
Study for God's Trombones, 1926 (Aaron Douglas, American)
Rise, Shine for Thy Light Has Come, ca.1927 (Aaron Douglas, American)
Congo, ca.1928 (Aaron Douglas, American)
"The Burden of Black Womanhood," cover for the Crisis, 1927 (Aaron Douglas, American)
Cover for Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, February 1926 (Aaron Douglas, American)
Cover for FIRE!! A Quarterly Devoted to Young Negro Artists, November 1926 (Aaron Douglas, American)
Locke, Alain. The New Negro: An Interpretation. First Edition. 1925.
Bontemps, Anna. God Sends Sunday. Originally published in 1931.
Aaron Douglas retouching the Fisk University murals in Cravath Hall, 1971
Aaron Douglas, 1953. (Betsy Graves Reyneau, American)
Harriet Tubman, ca.1931 (Aaron Douglas, American)
North Reading Room, Cravath Library, Fisk University, Nashville, TN
Science, 1930, Cravath Hall, Fisk University, Nashville, TN (Aaron Douglas, American)
Painting, Hall of Negro Life
Into Bondage, 1936 (Aaron Douglas, American)
Dust jacket and cover for Arthur Huff Fauset, For Freedom: A Biographical Story of the American Negro, 1927 (Aaron Douglas, American)
Noah's Ark, 1935 (Aaron Douglas, American)
The Creation, 1927 (Aaron Douglas, American)
Dust jacket featuring Douglas' The Negro's Gift to America for Jesse O. Thomas' Negro Participation in the Texas Centennial Exposition, 1938
Cover for W.E.B. Du Bois' What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas, 1936

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