Painting

Charles Alston, 1950

LOCATIONMetropolitan Museum of Art

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Harlem Renaissance

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THE ARTIST

Charles Alston 1907–1977 · United States

First Black supervisor of the WPA's Federal Art Project and mentor to Jacob Lawrence at age 10.