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 ...

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Sherrilyn Ifill, and Cornell Brooks at “Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and the Legacy of Jim Crow: The Long History of the Artist’s Concerns” on April 15, 2015, at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jacob Lawrence, “The Card Game” (1953), tempera on board, 19 x 23.5 inches, gift of Dr. Walter O. and Mrs. Linda J. Evans, SCAD Museum of Art permanent collection (© 2017 Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight ...

In 1960, Nigeria ceased to be a colony of Great Britain, and the West African nation soon experienced a blossoming of self-discovery and promise. Jacob Lawrence was a Black, American art star in his ...

Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), who painted the African-American experience, is among the most well-known and respected black American figurative artists of the 20th century. But a new exhibition, “Black ...

SAGINAW, MI — A special exhibit featuring the works of American artist Jacob Lawrence at the Saginaw Art Museum will overlap with Black History Month this February and continue into spring. “Jacob ...

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 ...

Jacob Lawrence, one of the great figurative painters of the 20th century, shares a gallery with his wife, Gwen Knight Lawrence, in a space intended to illuminate the Lawrences' experience of living in ...

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 ...