Loïs Mailou Jones was associated with the Harlem Renaissance, although she also worked in Paris for
Loïs Mailou Jones was associated with the Harlem Renaissance, although she also worked in Paris for a time. During the Great Migration, hundreds of thousands of African Americans moved, many by train, from the rural south to the urban north in the 1910s for better jobs and living conditions. Many settled in New York where there were many publishers, museums, galleries, and art schools. Slowly but surely Harlem became the epicenter of a new cultural movement. Jones knew many major figures of that movement, like Alain Locke and Langston Hughes.Have a question on your next visit at the Museum? Download our ASK appand ask away.Loïs Mailou Jones (American, 1905-1998). Dans un Café à Paris (Leigh Whipper), 1939. Brooklyn Museum © artist or artist’s estate -- source link
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