Harlem Renaissance figures take form

Jacob Lawrence and Aaron Douglas were two African-American artists of the Harlem Renaissance who captured the life of African-Americans in Harlem in the 1930's in their paintings. The painting at the left, Jacob Lawrence's "Working Women", chronicled the life of African-American women working in the city. Seventh graders drew the flat abstract figures from the paintings, repainting them in their own choice of colors. Then they used charcoal and white pencils to shade them, giving them three-dimensional form.