Riots to Renaissance: Artists of the Black Renaissance

Artists of the Black Renaissance

A partial list of artists involved in Chicago's Black Renaissance.

Henry Avery - painter

Arna Bontemps - author

Gwendolyn Brooks - poet

Oscar Brown, Jr. - entertainer

William Carter - artist

Elizabeth Catlett - artist

Nat King Cole - singer

John Wesley "Jack" Conroy - writer

Eldzier Cortor - artist and printmaker

Charles Davis - artist

Frank Marshall Davis - poet

Charles Dawson - artist

Katherine Dunham - dancer

Walter Ellison - painter

Ramon Gabriel - artist

Margaret Goss Burroughs - artist

Bernard Goss - painter

Fred Hollingsworth - artist

Langston Hughes - writer

Hughie Lee-Smith - artist

Archibald Motley, Jr. - painter

Gordon Parks - photographer

Charles Sebree - painter

Marion Perkins - sculptor

Margaret Walker - writer

Charles White - painter

Vernon Winslow - painter

Richard Wright - writer