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Revision as of 22:02, July 7, 2007
Jacob Lawrence (Atlantic City 1917 – Seattle 2000) American painter, storyteller and interpreter of the African-American experience.
In 1940, he received a grant from the Rosenwald Foundation to create a series of images on the migration of African-Americans from the South. The painter Gwendolyn Knight assisted him on the captions for the images and initial coating of the panels. They married in 1941. The same year The Migration of the Negro series had its debut at the Downtown Gallery. Lawrence was the first artist of color to be represented by a major New York gallery, and the success of this exhibition gave him national prominence. [1]
Lawrence called his style "dynamic cubism," though it wasn't notably dynamic. His debts to Cubism and to Matisse are notorious.
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The Migration of the Negro
Seaman’s Belt
See also
External links
- Jacob Lawrence TopBlacks.
- Jacob Lawrence The Artchive.
The female worker was also one of the last groups to leave the South