Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Jacob Lawrence became known for his narrative series of tempera paintings expressive of his own life and that of his black peers who migrated from the South to the... Read full biography
Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Jacob Lawrence became known for his narrative series of tempera paintings expressive of his own life and that of his black peers who migrated from the South to the North. His vivid collage-appearing canvases typically had bold planes of color and symbolic elements... Read full biography
Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Jacob Lawrence became known for his narrative series of tempera paintings expressive of his own life and that of his black peers who migrated from the South to the North. His vivid collage-appearing canvases typically had bold planes of color and symbolic elements of African-American heritage of struggles, aspirations, and accomplishments. Lawrence's style was wide ranging, but he was most associated with narrative Synthetic Cubism whose popularity and... Read full biography
Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Jacob Lawrence became known for his narrative series of tempera paintings expressive of his own life and that of his black peers who migrated from the South to the North. His vivid collage-appearing canvases typically had bold planes of color and symbolic elements of African-American heritage of struggles, aspirations, and accomplishments. Lawrence's style was wide ranging, but he was most associated with narrative Synthetic Cubism whose popularity and uniqueness were suppressed by the advent of Abstract Expressionism. His major work, The Migration of the Negro, was a social-realist culmination of the art of the 1930s and not a harbinger of new styles. He was born in 1917 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the... Read full biography
Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Jacob Lawrence became known for his narrative series of tempera paintings expressive of his own life and that of his black peers who migrated from the South to the North. His vivid collage-appearing canvases typically had bold planes of color and symbolic elements of African-American heritage of struggles, aspirations, and accomplishments. Lawrence's style was wide ranging, but he was most associated with narrative Synthetic Cubism whose popularity and uniqueness were suppressed by the advent of Abstract Expressionism. His major work, The Migration of the Negro, was a social-realist culmination of the art of the 1930s and not a harbinger of new styles. He was born in 1917 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the son of parents who moved North in search of work. His father abandoned the family in 1924, and Lawr... Read full biography
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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)