Includes reproductions of 60 paintings from this series and provides critical essays and quotes from the artist himself
Joanne Mattern. An artist named Gwendolyn Knight helped Lawrence create The Migration Series. Knight and Lawrence met at Studio 306. They spent a lot of time together. In 1941, they married. That year, Lawrence finished The Migration ...
Jacob Lawrence: Painter of African-American Life
Foreword by David C. Driskell. Text by Patricia Hills.
This volume reproduces Lawrences epic, sixty-panel series of paintings depicting the postWorld War I migration of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North. A major contribution to...
"Published in conjunction with exhibitions featuring Jacob Lawrence's Migration series organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., in collaboration with the Schomburg Center for Research ...
Includes reproductions of 60 paintings from this series and provides critical essays and quotes from the artist himself
A juvenile biography of Jacob Lawrence, African-American painter"--Provided by the publisher.
Jacob Lawrence was a talented painter whose work became an important part of the Harlem Renaissance and modern art. Learn about his life, influences, and impact.
'Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence' explores the life, work, and legacy of acclaimed painter, storyteller, educator, and chronicler of the mid-20th-century African American experience, Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000).
Jacob Lawrence: Thirty Years of Prints (1963-1993) : a Catalogue Raisonné
"This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle organized by the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts."
For use in schools and libraries only. A biography of the African American painter who used his art to tell stories about the lives of individual blacks and historical events important in the lives of his people.
The work has since become a landmark in the history of African-American art, a monument in the collections of both institutions, and a crucial example of the way in which history painting was radically reimagined in the modern era.
Jacob Lawrence was a talented painter whose work became an important part of the Harlem Renaissance and modern art. Learn about his life, influences, and impact.
Briefly describes Lawrence's life and career, shows thirteen of his major paintings, and includes comments on their composition.
Fifty paintings by the contemporary Amerian artist exhibit his innate understanding of the Black experience and his concern for the social freedom of all men.
Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists series combines a delightful mix of full-color historical reproductions, photos, and hilarious cartoon-style illustrations that bring to life the works of renowned artists, combining poignant ...
"Most of Lawrence's works that are covered in this book...such as The Great Migration, or the lives of Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Toussaint L'Ouverture, involve a series of paintings...
Briefly examines the life and work of the twentieth-century African American painter, describing and giving examples of his art.