Portrait of Julia Washington Bond
Aaron Douglas
American, 1899–1979

Details
Title
Portrait of Julia Washington Bond
Artist/Maker
Aaron Douglas (American, 1899–1979)
Date
1938
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
23 1/4 x 19 7/8 inches
Credit
Purchase with American Art Acquisition Fund and funds from Veronica and Franklin Biggins
Accession #
2006.111
On View
Currently not on view
Aaron Douglas was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a critical period in U.S. cultural history. Although best known for synthesizing elements of Cubism, Art Deco, and African art, Douglas was also a skilled portraitist. His talent for capturing the sitter’s distinctive personality and physical presence is evident in this elegant portrait of Julia Washington Bond, a former research librarian at Atlanta University’s Woodruff Library. She married educator and writer Horace Mann Bond and raised three children, among them civil rights leader Julian Bond.
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