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Over the The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence includes essays by eight distinguished art historians examining the ways in which Jacob Lawrences art speaks so powerfully to different audiences. It is the first multi-author, in-depth probe of the artists entire the nature of his work, his education, the critical climate in which he worked, and his use of materials and techniques. It reproduces, in full color, more than 200 works, most of which have not been published in color, or at all, in other books on the artist. An extensive chronology, collating events in his life with his public reception -- including selected exhibitions, publications, honors, and awards -- is illustrated with family photographs. Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) spent his childhood in New York City, attending classes at the Harlem Community Art Center and the American Artists School, and later working for the Federal Art Project. While still in his twenties Lawrence exhibited his paintings at major museums across the country, including the Phillips Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where he became the first African American artist repre

Author

Jacob Lawrence; Peter T Nesbett; Michelle DuBois; Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonné Project.; Whitney Museum of American Art.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.; Phillips Collection

Publisher

University of Washington Press in association with Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle and New York

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780295979632

Subjects

Art, Memoir, Biography