Jacob Lawrence
Painting, Visual Artist
1917 – 2000
Who was Jacob Lawrence?
Jacob Lawrence was an African-American painter known for his portrayal of African-American life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism," though by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem.
Lawrence is among the best-known 20th-century African-American painters. He was 23 when he gained national recognition with his 60-panel painted on cardboard. The series depicted the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North. A part of this series was featured in a 1941 issue of Fortune Magazine. The collection is now held by two museums. Lawrence's works are in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Phillips Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and Reynolda House Museum of American Art.
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- Born
- Sep 7, 1917
Atlantic City - Spouses
- Gwendolyn Knight
(1941/07/24 - 2000/06/09)
- Gwendolyn Knight
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Pratt Institute
- Employment
- Black Mountain College
- Federal Art Project
- Lived in
- Atlantic City
- Seattle
(1970 - 2000/06/09)
- Died
- Jun 9, 2000
Seattle
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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