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Gaylor African American Harlem Renaissance

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Adelaide Lawson Gaylor (1889-1986) American. Ice Skating in the City (c.1920). Oil on board. 17 ½ x 22 in. Signed lower right: ALg. Adelaide Lawson Gaylor was active as an artist in New York during the Harlem Renaissance and is listed in the Bio-Bibliographical Dictionary of Afro-American Artists. She studied at the Art Students League and began to exhibit her work (which leaned heavily towards radical-modernist art) in the early 1910's and 1920's, culminating in her participation in the inaugural Tanner Art League exhibition organized by African-American artists in Washington D.C. in 1922. She was a member of the NY Society of Women Artists.

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