Aaron Douglas (1900 - 1979) was a U.S. painter and a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Douglas received his B.F.A. degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1922.

References

• "Douglas, Aaron" in American National Biography, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). 6:789-790.
• Aaron Douglas: art, race, and the Harlem Renaissance, (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995) by Amy Hellene Kirschke.