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Lois Mailou Jones
Africa, 1935
In 1934, while attending a summer session at Columbia University in New York, Jones experienced the cultural life of Harlem and began studying the African masks that are central to her best-known paintings. Jones and other artists participating the Harlem Renaissance often used African art motifs to explore the roots of twentieth-century African American experience and express a strong sense of racial pride. Jones lived in Washington, DC for much of her life and taught at Howard University for nearly 50 years. |