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Jacob Lawrence

(American, 1917–2000)

Jacob Lawrence

"And God created all the beasts of the earth", 1990

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Jacob Lawrence

Hotel Astor, ca. 1954

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Jacob Lawrence

Morning Still Life, 1976

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Jacob Lawrence

Deception, 1997

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Jacob Lawrence

No. 2 (For 40 Years John Brown Reflected on the Hopless and Miserable Condition of the Slaves), 1977

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Jacob Lawrence

After the Show, 1953

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Jacob Lawrence

Children at Play, ca. 1955

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Jacob Lawrence

Builders No. 2, 1985

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Jacob Lawrence

Ten Builders (from the Builders Suite), 1996

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Jacob Lawrence

Artist in the Studio, 1994

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Biography

Timeline

1917: Born in Atlantic City, NJ
1930: Moved to Harlem, New York, NY
1934 - 1939: Attended the Harlem Art Workshop, New York, NY
1939 - 1941: Worked on Federal Arts Project as part of Works Progress Administration
1943 - 1945: Served in the US Coast Guard and Navy during WWII
1947: Taught at Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, NC
1953: Received an American Academy of Arts and Letters grant
1955 - 1970: Taught design and figure drawing at Pratt Institute, New York, NY
1971 - 1983: Taught at University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2000: Died in Seattle, WA

Exhibitions

2010: Jacob Lawrence, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2006: Jacob Lawrence: Tales of Freedom, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA (solo)
2005: Jacob Lawrence: Three Series of Prints, Genesis, Hiroshima, and Toussaint L'ouverture, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL (solo)
2004: Jacob Lawrence's War Series, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
2001 - 2003: Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (solo)
2001: Jacob Lawrence Memorial Exhibition, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2000: Jacob Lawrence: Games, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo)
The Toussaint L'Ouverture Series, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (solo)
1999: The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of Narrative Paintings, Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA (solo)
1998: Lives Connected: Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight, The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
1996: Jacob Lawrence: The Hiroshima Paintings, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX (solo)
Jacob Lawrence: An American Society in Transition, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX (solo)
1995: Jacob Lawrence: War Series, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY (solo)
1994: Jacob Lawrence Inaugural Exhibition, Paintings 1972-1984, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (solo)
1992: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (retrospective)
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (retrospective)
1986: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (retrospective)
1984: Fifty Year Retrospective, Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY (retrospective)
1974 - 1975: Jacob Lawrence Retrospective Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (retrospective)
1969: The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (solo)
1960: Jacob Lawrence, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (retrospective)
1953: Downtown Gallery, New York, NY

Public Collections

: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York, NY
: National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI
: Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE

Literature

2010: Hills, Patricia. Painting Harlem Modern: The Art of Jacob Lawrence. California: University of California Press, 2010
2000: Nesbitt, Peter T.; DuBois, Michelle, Jacob Lawrence, Paintings, Drawings and Murals (1935-199) A Catalogue Raisonne' , University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA
: Nesbitt, Peter T.; DuBois, Michelle, Over The Line the Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA
1986: Wheat, Ellen. Jacob Lawrence, American Painter. Washington: University of Washington Press, 1986

Jacob Lawrence

(American, 1917–2000)

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Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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