The Harlem Renaissance set the stage for the world to experience the enormous pool of talent in the African American culture. From the end of World War I and through the middle of the 1930s Depression, a group of gifted African-American writers produced a sizable body of literature in the four prominent genres of poetry, fiction, drama, and essay (Reuben). Cultural anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston gave voice to the hardships and strengths of the Black woman with her celebrated novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Langston Hughes mesmerized the world with his contentious yet inspirational, provocative yet rhythmic poetry. But literature was not the only field that featured notable African American contributors, all areas of the Arts where permeated. In music emerged Duke Ellington, a herald composer and arranger of jazz. In theater bloomed the infamous Josephine Baker, a stunning dancer and singer. In the visual arts surfaced Augusta Savage, a graceful and intense sculptor, and Palmer Hayden, a painter who depicted landscapes of the rural South as well as the African American urban epicenter, Harlem.