On the reverse side of print: "One of Prof. Thoms earliest prints. The Medical School on York Street. To the left is the former Dispensary. To the right and in the rear the Laboratory Building." Signed in pencil.
One gouache drawing by Aaron Douglas created to illustrate "The Prodigal Son" in God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, by James Weldon Johnson (New York: Viking Press, 1927). The illustration features silhouettes of a man and two women grouped under a single overhead light, and framed by graphic representations of jazz-age vices such as a dollar bill, playing cards, dice, and a gin bottle, as well as jazz trombones, jutting in from the outside edges. It is one of eight illustrations by Douglas for the volume.
Alternative Title:
The Prodigal Son
Description:
Aaron Douglas, American painter and illustrator active in the Harlem Renaissance; he was born in 1899 in Topeka, Kansas, and died in 1979 in Nashville, Tennessee., Gift of Grace Nail Johnson, 1966., and Title devised by cataloger.
Subject (Name):
Douglas, Aaron and Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938.--God's Trombones--Illustrations
Subject (Topic):
Illustration of books--United States and Illustrators--United States