Jacob Lawrence, 1917-2000, is an American artists known for his colorful and emotional artwork depicting various struggles of African-Americans, including civil rights confrontations and the fight for ...

A New Orleans research center has received $1 million to conserve 41 paintings by Jacob Lawrence, one of the most important American artists of the 20th century. The three-year grant to the Amistad ...

SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A second panel from American artist Jacob Lawrence’s sweeping series “Struggle: From the History of the American People” that has been hidden from public view for decades has been ...

Among the mysteries of recent art history is the whereabouts of many works by the great African American painter Jacob Lawrence. An industry that did not properly value Black artists’ contributions ...

This undated image provided by the Peabody Essex Museum shows the 1956 painting “Immigrants admitted from all countries: 1820 to 1840—115,773,” panel 28 from a private collection of a 30-panel series ...

In "color-ography, n. the dances of Jacob Lawrence" four choreographers take a long look at Jacob Lawrence's paintings and create pieces giving physical realization to the essence of his art. These ...

Since his first published print in 1963, artist Jacob Lawrence has produced a body of work that is highly dramatic and intensely personal. In his graphic work, as in his paintings, Lawrence has turned ...

GADSDEN COUNTY, Fla. (WCTV) - Here’s what’s brewing! The Gadsden Arts Center and Museum is set to display paintings from renowned artist Jacob Lawrence. His works capture images of “Black history and ...

Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective. By Siddhartha Mitter The museum catches up to the vital ...

SALEM, Mass. — A second panel from American artist Jacob Lawrence’s sweeping series “Struggle: From the History of the American People” that has been hidden from public view for decades has been ...

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