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View all 38 artworks. Jacob Lawrence lived in the XX cent., a remarkable figure of American Social Realism and Harlem Renaissance (New Negro Movement). Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Lawrence's paintings portray the lives and struggles of African Americans, and have found wide audiences due to their abstract, colorful style and universality of subject matter.
Jacob Armstead Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter known for portraying African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. He referred to his style as "dynamic cubism ," an art form popularized in Europe which drew great inspiration from West African and Meso-American art.
Jun 9, 2000 · American Painter. Born: September 7, 1917 - Atlantic City, New Jersey. Died: June 9, 2000 - Seattle, Washington. Social Realism. Harlem Renaissance. American Realism.
Jacob Lawrence was the first African-American painter whose work was displayed in the collection of MOMA in New York. His bright, colorful, genre painters became associated with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1930s and 1940s.
Apr 2, 2014 · (1917-2000) Who Was Jacob Lawrence? Jacob Lawrence was one the most renowned African American artist of his time. Known for producing narrative collections like the Migration Series and...
The paintings of Jacob Lawrence express his lifelong concern for human dignity, freedom, and his own social consciousness. His images portray the everyday reality, the struggles and successes of African American life.
