Jacob lawrence

Characteristic of Jacob Lawrence’s work in the 1940s are subjects drawn from the streets and interiors of Harlem. Although he believed that you cannot “tell a story in a single painting,” Lawrence occasionally worked outside the series structure for which he is best known. In uninflected areas of bold color, Tombstones pictures neighbors and residents in front of an apartment building. It encapsulates the full sweep of life within the African American community, from the cradle—the baby…

An in-depth look at Jacob Lawrence's landmark 1941 painting series about the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North.

In 1942, twenty-five-year-old Lawrence gained national recognition when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., shared the acquisition of his sixty-panel Migration of the Negro series and sent it on a fifteen-venue tour across the United States

Migration Series

DC Moore Gallery

An exhibition of painter Jacob Lawrence is a searing indictment of methodical erasures in our history, and a call to recommit to the democratic principles of liberty and justice for all.

Jacob Lawrence is a Featured Artist on my blog at: blog.elysianstudiosart.com/2011/02/featured-artist-jacob-...

Inspired by the recent discovery of a related panel, a nurse realized that the missing artwork had hung in her house for decades

Jacob Lawrence was inspired by the women in his Harlem neighborhood. Like his own mother, they worked hard to support their families and survived on very little money. In this painting a girl rests on a chair in front of two large windows.

An arts game for kids where you must find 5 differences between 2 Jacob Lawrence paintings