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Aaron Douglass Notoes - Driskill and Aaron Talk Fisk March, 1971 For Arts Festivials-Van VechtenGallery
J. Bontempo Catalog of Douglas underway Chronology-
" Now there was a time when negro artists were searching very hard to find something that told who we are- are roots. Everybody did'nt do this. Reiss had excited me to do some of the same things he did" He noted however, that they were not too sure about. " this African king- going off on a tangent, picking up the paint brush and seeing the African spirit in everything in sight", He said Miss Brady did'nt think much of that king of thing. I asked-how much influrence Locke had on him, especially his sticking with African themes? Douglas responded by saying Locke was powerful enough to get Dr. barnes (Barnes Foundation) " up in arms about the interest in Africa he ( Locke) was generating. "When I was at the Barnes Foubdation, all isolated out there with that strange lady running everything, ( I assume he meant V. De Mizzio) Barnes tried to get me to sabatoge what Locke was doing. I quietly eased out of it very diplomatically in the same -manner
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that I did when. Georgia O'Keeffe cam down in 1949to install the Stieglitz things". I asked what happened?- Douglas said on several ocassions Miss O'Keeffe tride to hit him with the hammer she was using when she was installing the works. He said Pearl Creswell was in Miss O' Keeffe's corner all the time. ( I didn't know exactly what that meant) " She would raise her hammer aiming at my head when my back was turned and I would just move out of her way", he noted. What was that all about? I asked. Well she didn't like me, she know
