About Jacob Armstead Lawrence: Books

Books & Publications (172)

Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.

  • The Girl With the Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert and the Making of the Modern Art Market
    2006
    Pollock, Lindsay
    483 pages (color)
  • The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
    2005
    AskART.com Inc. -
    Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
    479 pages
  • Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
    2005
    Davenport, Ray
    2,421 pages
  • Black Mountain College Experiment in Art
    2004
    Katz, Vincent
    352 pages (color)
  • The Other Side of Color: African-American Art in the Collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr.
    2001
    Driskell, David
    240 pages (color)
  • I See You, I See Myself: The Young Life of Jacob Lawrence
    2001
    Leach, Deba Foxley
    62 pages (color)
  • Over the Line the Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence
    2000
    Nesbett, P. and Dubois, M.
    336 pages (color)
  • The Complete Jacob Lawrence
    2000
    Nesbett, Peter, Michelle Duboi
    0 pages
  • Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
    1999
    Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
    3,724 pages
  • The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making
    1999
    Passantino, Erika D (editor)
    819 pages (color)
  • The Art Students League of New York A History (Teachers)
    1999
    Steiner, Raymond J
    0 pages
  • American Dreams: Paintings and Decorative Arts from Warner Collection
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1998
    Curry, David; Elizabeth O'Leary
    78 pages (color)
  • Collecting African American Art Works on Paper and Canvas
    1998
    Taha, Halima
    270 pages (color)
  • American Visions The Epic History of Art in America
    1997
    Hughes, Robert
    635 pages (color)
  • Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century
    1997
    Powell, Richard J
    256 pages (color)
  • Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1996
    Addison Gallery
    512 pages (color)
  • Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
    1996
    Barbara and Peter Toohil
    363 pages (color)
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
    1996
    Demetrion, James T (Introduction)
    166 pages (color)
  • American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
    1996
    Hopps, Walter (others)
    320 pages (color)
  • Selections From the Permanent Collection: Southern Alleghenies
    1996
    Strueber, Michael (Director)
    118 pages (color)
  • City of Ambition Artists and New York, 1900-1960
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1996
    Sussman, Elizabeth
    144 pages (color)
  • The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture
    1996
    Wood, James N/T Edelstein
    160 pages (color)
  • Contemporary Art in the Northwest
    1995
    Allan, Lois
    231 pages (color)
  • Advertising, Artists & the Borders of Art
    1995
    Bogart, Michelle H
    427 pages
  • History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts From the Dawn of History to the Present Day
    1995
    Janson, H W; Dora Jane Janson
    960 pages (color)
  • Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection
    1995
    Severens, Martha R
    289 pages (color)
  • American Art History and Culture
    1994
    Craven, Wayne
    687 pages (color)
  • American Realism
    1994
    Lucie-Smith, Edward
    240 pages (color)
  • African American Art
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1994
    San Antonio Museum of Art
    67 pages (color)
  • Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
    1994
    Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
    372 pages (color)
  • A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present
    1993
    Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson
    542 pages (color)
  • Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
    1993
    Bowker R R
    1,473 pages
  • Themes in American Painting Common Styles and Genres/A Reference
    1993
    Henkes, Robert
    260 pages (color)
  • Free Within Ourselves: African-American Artists in the Collection of the National Museum of American Art
    1993
    Perry, Regina A
    203 pages (color)
  • Awash in Color Homer, Sargent and the Great American Watercolor
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1993
    Reed, Sue Welsh/Carol Troyen
    266 pages (color)
  • Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
    1993
    Southwest Art
    64 pages
  • Jacob Lawrence The Migration Series
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1993
    Turner, Elizabeth Hutton
    172 pages (color)
  • American Drawings and Watercolors from the Kansas City Region
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1992
    Adams, Henry (others)
    495 pages (color)
  • A Nation's Legacy 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1992
    Columbus Museum of Art
    198 pages (color)
  • Meadows of Memory Images of Time & Tradition in American Art & Culture
    1992
    Kammen, Michael
    192 pages
  • American Paintings An Illustrated Catalogue
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1992
    National Gallery of Art
    545 pages
  • Art in Seattle's Public Places: An Illustrated Guide
    1992
    Rupp, James M.
    320 pages
  • Jacob Lawrence Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series 1938-1940
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1991
    Wheat, Ellen Harkins
    127 pages (color)
  • American Originals Selections from Reynolda House Museum
    1990
    Eldredge, Charles C
    135 pages (color)
  • The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1990
    Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
    1,117 pages
  • Art What Thou Eat Images of Food in American Art
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1990
    Gustafson, Donna (others)
    191 pages (color)
  • Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1990
    Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes
    196 pages (color)
  • Facing History The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1990
    McElroy, Guy C
    190 pages (color)
  • Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1989
    Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
    538 pages
  • The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
    1989
    Fresella-Lee, Nancy
    222 pages (color)
  • Artists in Quotation Dictionary of Creative Thoughts of Painters etc
    1989
    La Cour, Donna Ward
    196 pages
  • Advancing American Art Painting, Politics and Cultural Confrontation
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1989
    Littleton, Taylor/M Sykes
    159 pages (color)
  • African American Artists 1880-1987 Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection
    1989
    McElroy, Guy C (others)
    125 pages (color)
  • The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
    1988
    Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
    376 pages (color)
  • American Masterpieces (revised) from the National Gallery of Art
    1988
    Wilmerding, John
    208 pages (color)
  • Commited to Print
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1988
    Wye, Deborah
    120 pages
  • Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
    1987
    Cummings, Paul
    653 pages
  • Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
    1987
    Feldman, Edmund Burke
    528 pages (color)
  • Modern American Realism The Sara Roby Foundation Collection
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1987
    Mecklenburg, Virginia
    148 pages (color)
  • American Traditions in Watercolor Worcester Art Museum Collection
    1987
    Strickler, Susan (editor)
    232 pages (color)
  • Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
    1986
    Jaques Cattell Press
    1,292 pages
  • Jacob Lawrence American Painter
    1986
    Wheat, Ellen Harkins
    234 pages (color)
  • 300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
    1986
    Zellman, Michael David
    1,102 pages (color)
  • Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
    1985
    Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
    707 pages
  • Art, Design and the Modern Corporation
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1985
    Harris, Neil/Martina R Norelli
    135 pages (color)
  • Treasures from the National Museu of American Art
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1985
    Kloss, William/C C Eldredge
    254 pages (color)
  • The Revenge of the Philistines Art and Culture 1972-1984
    1985
    Kramer, Hilton
    445 pages
  • American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
    1985
    Krantz, Les
    347 pages (color)
  • National Portrait Gallery Collection Illustrated Checklist
    1985
    Smithsonian Institution
    461 pages
  • American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1985
    Wooden, Howard E
    151 pages
  • Advancing American Art Politics and Aesthetics/State Dept Exhibition
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1984
    Ausfeld, M L/V M Mecklenburg
    108 pages (color)
  • American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History
    1984
    Baigell, Mathew
    420 pages
  • American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum
    1984
    Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators)
    88 pages (color)
  • Twentieth Century American Drawin from the Arkansas Arts Center
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1984
    Glover, John/Townsend Wolfe
    95 pages
  • World Artists 1950-1980
    1984
    Marks, Claude
    912 pages
  • The Figure in 20th Century American Art Metropolitan Museum of Art
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1984
    Sims, Lowery Stokes
    167 pages (color)
  • 100 Masterpieces of American Painting from Public Collections Washington D C
    1983
    Brown, Milton W
    240 pages (color)
  • The Art of New York
    1983
    Chwast, Seymour/S Heller
    190 pages
  • Fifty Northwest Artists (photos of artists by Marsha Burns)
    1983
    Guenther, Bruce
    118 pages (color)
  • Social Concern and Urban Realism American Painting in the 1930s
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1983
    Hills, Patricia
    96 pages
  • The Lane Collection 20th-Century Paintings in the American Tradition
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1983
    Stebbins, Theodore/C Troyen
    183 pages (color)
  • Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1982
    Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler
    195 pages (color)
  • Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980 (Corcoran Gallery of Art)
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1982
    Livingston, Jane/J Beardsley
    186 pages (color)
  • Critical Vision/A Historyof Social and Political Art in the U S
    1982
    Von Blum, Paul
    165 pages
  • The Painter's Mind: A Study of the Relations of Structure and Space
    1981
    Bearden, Romare/Carl Holty
    224 pages
  • Social Art in America 1930-1945
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1981
    Brown, Milton (essay). ACA Galleries
    62 pages
  • The Edith and Milton Lowenthal Collection The Brooklyn Museum
    1981
    Lane, John R.; Michael Botwinick (Foreward)
    60 pages (color)
  • Handbook of the Collections: Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art (Cornell University)
    1981
    Leavitt, Thomas W. (Editor)
    106 pages
  • The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
    1981
    Osborne, Harold
    656 pages (color)
  • The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
    1981
    Rugoff, Milton
    669 pages (color)
  • West '80 Art and the Law
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1980
    Minnesota Museum of Art
    80 pages (color)
  • The Olympics in Art, An Exhibitio Works of Art Related to Olympic Sports
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1980
    Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst
    166 pages (color)
  • Amerika Traum und Depression 1920-1940
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1980
    Neuen Gesellschaft Bild. Kunst
    544 pages (color)
  • American Figure Painting 1950-198
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1980
    Styron, Thomas W
    115 pages (color)
  • American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art
    1980
    Wilmerding, John
    180 pages (color)
  • Dictionary of American Art
    1979
    Baigell, Mathew
    390 pages
  • American Art Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
    1979
    Brown, Milton W (others)
    616 pages (color)
  • American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
    1979
    Doumato, Lamia
    246 pages
  • Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
    1979
    Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
    736 pages
  • The Toledo Museum of Art American Paintings
    1979
    Strickler, Susan (Catalogue); William Hutton (Editor)
    227 pages (color)
  • Art: African American
    1978
    Lewis, Samella
    246 pages (color)
  • The Legend of John Brown (Jacob Lawrence)
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1978
    Sharp, Ellen (intro)
    61 pages (color)
  • American Art 1934-1956 Selections from Whitney Museum
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1978
    Whitney Museum
    148 pages (color)
  • Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
    1977
    Barr, Alfred H
    655 pages
  • Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1977
    Dillenberger, Jane & John
    175 pages (color)
  • Art & Ethnics Background for Teaching Youth in a Pluralistic Society
    1977
    Grigsby, Eugene Jr.
    147 pages
  • American Watercolor Painting
    1977
    Hoopes, Donelson F
    208 pages (color)
  • New Deal for Art: The Government Art Projects of the 1930s
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1977
    Park, Marlene/Gerald Markowitz
    172 pages
  • American Picturebooks from Noah's Ark to the Beast Within
    1976
    Bader, Barbara
    615 pages (color)
  • Two Centuries of Black American Art
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1976
    Driskell, David C
    221 pages (color)
  • The Art of America Since World War II
    1976
    Glubok, Shirley
    48 pages
  • A Selection of American Art The Skowhegan School 1946-1976
    1976
    Institute of Contemporary Art
    194 pages
  • Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
    1976
    Jaques Cattell Press
    756 pages
  • Bright Stars: American Painting and Sculpture Since1776
    1976
    Lipman, Jean/Helen M Franc
    208 pages (color)
  • 200 Jahre Amerikanische Malerei 1776-1976
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1976
    Taylor, Joshua C
    140 pages (color)
  • America as Art
    1976
    Taylor, Joshua C
    320 pages (color)
  • Fragments of American Life An Exhibition of Paintings
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1976
    Willis, John Ralph
    75 pages
  • The Saint Louis Art Museum Handbook of Collections
    1975
    Buckley, Charles E
    377 pages (color)
  • A Panorama of American Painting The John J McDonough Collection
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1975
    Bullard, E John
    119 pages (color)
  • Amistad II Afro-American Art
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1975
    Driskell, David C
    92 pages
  • Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
    1975
    Editor, Smithsonian
    0 pages
  • The Art Students League of New York Anniversarly Exhibition 100 Artists, Kennedy Galleries
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1975
    Fleischman, Lawrence A.(Intro); Lawrence Campbell (Foreward)
    284 pages
  • The American Scene: American Painting of the 1930s
    1974
    Baigell, Mathew
    214 pages (color)
  • Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
    1974
    Baur, John I H
    235 pages (color)
  • Jacob Lawrence
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1974
    Brown, Milton W
    64 pages (color)
  • American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures
    1974
    Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
    80 pages
  • The Story of American Painting
    1974
    Davidson, Abraham A
    168 pages (color)
  • The New Humanism Art in a Time of Change
    1974
    Schwartz, Barry
    192 pages (color)
  • American Self Portraits 1670-1973
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1974
    Van Devanter, Ann, et al
    245 pages (color)
  • From Reliable Sources, Archives of American Art An Exhibition of Letters from the Smithsonian Instituteion
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1974
    Woolfenden, William E. (Foreward); Garmett McCoy (Intro)
    56 pages
  • Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory
    1973
    Cederholm, Theresa Dickason
    348 pages
  • The Artist's America American Heritage History of
    1973
    Davidson, Marshall
    416 pages (color)
  • The Afro-American Artist A Search for Identity
    1973
    Fine, Elsa Honig
    310 pages (color)
  • An Invitation to See 125 Paintings from the MOMA
    1973
    Franc, Helen M
    159 pages (color)
  • Art for the Millions Essays by...Artists...WPA Federal Art Project
    1973
    O'Connor, Francis V (editor)
    317 pages
  • Social Realism Art as a Weapon
    1973
    Shapiro, David
    340 pages
  • Six Black Masters of American Art
    1972
    Bearden, Romare/H Henderson
    120 pages (color)
  • Politics in Art
    1972
    Mondale, Joan Adams
    72 pages (color)
  • Catalogue of The Roland P Murdock Collection Wichita Art Museum
    1972
    Tomko, George
    237 pages (color)
  • Praeger Encyclopedia of Art (4 volumes)
    1971
    Bell, David
    2,139 pages (color)
  • Contemporary Black Artists in America (Whitney Museum of American Art)
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1971
    Doty, Robert
    64 pages (color)
  • Seventeen Black Artists
    1971
    Fax, Elton C
    306 pages
  • Black Artists on Art volume 2
    1971
    Lewis, S. and Waddy, R.
    140 pages (color)
  • The Negro in Art
    1971
    Locke, Alain
    224 pages
  • Social Studies: The Art of Black America, Part One
    1970
    Alston, Charles Henry; Romare Bearden; Allan Rohan Crite, et all
    0 pages (color)
  • The American Scene 1900-1970 An Exhibition of twentieth century painting
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1970
    Hope, Henry Radford (Essay)
    119 pages
  • Encyclopedia of Painting (Painters of the World...etc)
    1970
    Myers, Bernard S (editor)
    511 pages (color)
  • Afro-American Artists New York and Boston
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1970
    National Cent/Afro-Am Artists
    80 pages
  • American Painting 1900-1970
    1970
    Time-Life Books, Editors
    192 pages (color)
  • An American Collection The Neuberger Collection
    1968
    Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott
    463 pages (color)
  • History of Water Color in America
    1966
    Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck
    160 pages (color)
  • Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
    1966
    Larkin, Oliver W
    559 pages (color)
  • 200 Years of Watercolor Painting Centennial of American Watercolor Society
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1966
    Metropolitan Museum of Art
    64 pages
  • Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1964
    Baur, John I H
    91 pages (color)
  • Profile: Art and Artists in the USA on the Occasion of 4th Congress ...
    1963
    International Assoc. of Art
    119 pages
  • What Is American in American Art
    1963
    Lipman, Jean (editor)
    180 pages (color)
  • Art U S A Now (2 volumes)
    1962
    Weller, Allen S/Lee Nordness
    474 pages (color)
  • American Art of Our Century
    1961
    Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur
    309 pages (color)
  • Conversations with Artists 35 Painters, Sculptors and Architects
    1961
    Rodman, Selden
    234 pages
  • American Negro Art
    1960
    Dover, Cedric
    186 pages (color)
  • New Art in America
    1957
    Baur, John I H
    279 pages
  • Golden Years of American Drawing 1905-1956
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1957
    Brooklyn Museum
    72 pages
  • Three Hundred Years of American Painting
    1957
    Eliot, Alexander
    318 pages (color)
  • American Artists Paint the City (38th Biennale/Venice 1956)
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1956
    Kuh, Katherine
    47 pages (color)
  • Encyclopedia of Painting
    1955
    Myers, Bernard
    511 pages (color)
  • Modern Renaissance in American Art
    1954
    Pearson, Ralph M
    300 pages
  • History of Modern Painting
    1951
    Bazin, Germain/A Gloeckner
    391 pages (color)
  • 100 American Painters of the 20th Century
    1950
    Metropolitan Museum
    132 pages (color)
  • University of Arizona Collection of American Art
    1947
    University of Arizona
    106 pages (color)
  • Painting in the U S A
    1946
    Gruskin, Alan D
    223 pages (color)
  • The Fifty-fifth Annual American Exhibition: Water Colors and Drawings
    (Exhibition catalog)
    1944
    The Art Institute of Chicago
    22 pages
  • Modern Negro Art
    1943
    Porter, James A
    272 pages