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1917 Atlantic City, New Jersey - 2000 Seattle, Washington. Known for: Modernist naive urban genre-figure painting.
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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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Casein
- •Colored Pencil
- •Crayon, Crayola Drawing
- •Egg Tempera
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Pencil, Graphite Drawing
- •Tempera
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wood for carving, sculpture, and/or surface
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Folk Art, Naive, Primitive
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Naive, Childlike, Intuitive
Art Subject
- •American Scene
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
- •Social Realism
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
- •Urban Scene, City Genre
Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
Art Teacher
- •Charles Henry Alston
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Teacher
- •Black Mountain College, North Carolina, Teacher
- •New School For Social Research (The New School), Teacher
- •Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, Student
- •Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, Teacher
- •Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
- •Julius Rosenwald Foundation Grant
- •National Medal of Arts
- •Yaddo Resident Artist
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Edith and Milton Lowenthal
- •Evans-Tibbs Collections
- •Hallmark Cards, Inc.
- •John J. McDonough Collection
- •Sara Roby Foundation
- •Schomburg Collection
- •Warner Collection
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •Harlem Renaissance Artist
- •LIFE Magazine Featured Artist
- •Mural Specialty
- •Printmaking Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Ethnicity of Artist
- •Black, African-American and/or Caribbean
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Edith Halpert Downtown Gallery, New York
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Contemporary Black Artists in America, Whitney Museum
- •Metropolitan Museum of Art
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Special Group
- •American Negro Exposition, Chicago 1940
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts