Charlotte Mason Osgood

Charlotte Mason Osgood

This a photo of Charlotte Mason Osgood, the patron of African American Arts during the Harlem Renaissance. Ms.Osgood supported many famous Harlem Renaissance writers and artists like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. Langston Hughes mentions how difficult this relationship was and the controlling nature of the relationship. This relationship may have been inspiration for Hughes short story "Slave on the Block" where the artistic white couple take liberties to what they think African Americans should be depicted as. Both Hughes relationship with Osgood and the couples relationship with the workers have the underlying theme of well-meaning interest in African American culture and art that only offends.

Yale University

"Charlotte Mason Osgood." Intimate Arts: American Women in the Arts. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2015.
<http://brbl-archive.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/awia/gallery/mason.html>.

http://brbl-archive.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/awia/gallery/mason.html

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Gabriella Green