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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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Museums & Collections (65)
All MuseumsArkansas Museum of Fine Arts
501 East 9th Street
Po Box 2137
Little Rock, AR 72202Art Institute of Chicago, AIC
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603-6110Birmingham Museum of Art
2000 Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr. Blvd.
Birmingham, AL 35203Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas (Austin)
200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd,
Austin, TX 78712-0338Boca Raton Museum of Art
Mizner Park
501 Plaza Real
Boca Raton, FL 33432Brandywine Museum of Art
One Hoffmans Mill Road
Po Box 141
Chadds Ford, PA 19317Butler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502California African American Museum
Exposition Park
600 State Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90037Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45202Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
223 James P. Brawley Dr Sw
Trevor Arnett Hall, 2nd Floor
Atlanta, GA 30314Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
600 Museum Way
Bentonville, AR 72712Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street
Dallas, TX 75201Denver Art Museum
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver, CO 80204Figge Art Museum
225 West 2nd Street
Davenport, IA 52804-4520Flint Institute of Arts
1120 East Kearsley Street
Flint, MI 48503Florence Museum
558 Spruce Street
Florence, SC 29501George Walter Vincent Smith Museum
21 Edwards Street
Springfield, MA 01103Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia
The University of Georgia
90 Carlton Street
Athens, GA 30602-6719Greenville County Museum of Art
420 College Street
Greenville, SC 29601Hampton University Museum, Hampton University
200 William R. Harvey Way
Hampton, VA 23668Hickory Museum of Art
243 Third Avenue N.E.
Hickory, NC 28601Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution: 7th Street & Independence Ave. Sw
Mail To: Po Box 37012/Hmsg Mrc 350
Washington, DC 20013-7012Hunter Museum of American Art
10 Bluff View
Chattanooga, TN 37403Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
University of Miami
1301 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146Memorial Art Gallery
University of Rochester
500 University Avenue
Rochester, NY 14607-1415Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Missoula Art Museum
335 North Pattee Street
Missoula, MT 59802Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA)
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115Museum of Modern Art, New York
11 West 53rd Street
New York City, NY 10019Muskegon Museum of Art
296 West Webster
Muskegon, MI 49440National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
750 Ninth Street NW, Suite 410
Washington, DC 20001Neuberger Museum of Art
Suny, Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577-1400New Jersey State Museum
205 West State Street
Trenton, NJ 08625-0530New Orleans Museum of Art
One Collins Diboll Circle, City Park
P.O. Box 19123
New Orleans, LA 70124North Carolina Museum of Art
2110 Blue Ridge Road
Mail To 4630 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-4630Ogunquit Museum of American Art
543 Shore Road
Po Box 815
Ogunquit, ME 03907-0815Palm Springs Art Museum
101 Museum Drive
Po Box 2310
Palm Springs, CA 92263-2310Portland Art Museum, Oregon
1219 Sw Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97205Reynolda House-Museum of American Art
Museum of American Art
Po Box 11765
Winston-Salem, NC 27116Saint Louis Art Museum
Forest Park
One Fine Arts Drive
St. Louis, MO 63110San Antonio Museum of Art
200 West Jones Avenue
San Antonio, TX 78215-1406San Diego Museum of Art
Balboa Park, 1450 el Prado
Po 122107
San Diego, CA 92101Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101-2476Sara Roby Foundation Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM)
G St. NW & 8th St. NW
Washington, DC 20004Seattle Art Museum
1300 First Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101Sheldon Museum of Art
12th &Amp; R Streets
Lincoln, NE 68588-0300Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (SAMA)
Altoona Facility (Brett Building)
1210 11th Ave
Altoona, PA 16601Tacoma Art Museum
1701 Pacific Avenue
Tacoma, WA 98402The Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052The Contemporary Austin Laguna Gloria
3809 West 35th Street
P.O. Box 1847
Austin, TX 78767-1847The Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico
University of New Mexico Foundation
238 Ledoux Street
Taos, NM 87571-6004The Johnson Collection
100 Dunbar Street, Suite 203
Spartanburg, SC 29306The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111-1873The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009-1090The Toledo Museum of Art
2445 Monroe Street
Box 1013
Toledo, OH 43697The University of Arizona Museum of Art
1031 N. Olive Road
Tucson, AZ 85721-0002Ulrich Museum of Art
1845 Fairmount, McKnight Center
Wichita State University (Box 46) (Box 46) (Box 46)
Wichita, KS 67260-0046University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354University of Saint Joseph Art Gallery
1678 Asylum Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117-2791Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014Worcester Art Museum
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester, MA 01609-3196