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Lawrence retrospective.(Jacob Lawrence, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,)(Brief Article)
Over the course of his sixty-year career, the artist Jacob Lawrence found his subject matter in some of the most controversial and hotly debated topics of the twentieth century. As a black artist, he was deeply concerned with social injustice and civil rights, and as a participant in what is known as the Harlem renaissance he made many influential contributions to the cultural scene in New York City. Nonetheless, his work has never until now been the subject of a retrospective exhibition, the line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, a traveling exhibition on view at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., through August 19, redresses this imbalance. (Future showings will be listed in Calendar.) The exhibition also celebrates the publication of the two-volume book The Complete Jacob Lawrence. One volume is a catalogue raisonne, and the other, with the same title as this exhibition, is an interpretive monograph with contributions by a number of authors. The monograph has also been republished as a single volume incorporating material that pertains to the retrospective exhibition, of which it serves as the catalogue. The entire project has been underwritten by ExxonMobil with additional support from AT&T and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Phillips Collection is a particularly appropriate location for this show since Duncan Phillips, the museum's founder, was an early supporter of modernist painters and in 1941 purchased some thirty panels of Lawrence's sixty-panel landmark work, The Migration of the Negro. Lawrence, who died before he could see the publication through, suggested this retrospective to the museum while work on the catalogue raisonne was in progress.
There are more than two hundred paintings and drawings in this show, spanning Lawrence's long career and representative of the various themes that he explored in his work, including "Interiors and Exteriors," "Performance and Games," "Work and ...
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- Magazine article from: Artforum International Borum, Jennifer P. May 1, 1995 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: New Criterion Naves, Mario February 1, 1999 700+ words
...the Jewish Museum is the dull blur of piety. Piety and social realism are attributes we also associate with the painter Jacob Lawrence. Like Shahn's, Lawrence's art concerns itself with (in his words) "man's continuous struggle to lift his social...
- Jacob Lawrence - Stories of the Soul.
- Magazine article from: World and I KAPLAN, JANICE L. OSMOND, SUSAN February 1, 2002 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: American Visions Fitzgerald, Sharon April 1, 1995 700+ words
...wife and I come to New York and are driving...year-old artist Jacob Lawrence, "I think this...recent opening of "Jacob Lawrence: The Migration...home in Seattle to New York City, which was...homes and went to New York to find work...that migration," ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Shaw-Eagle, Joanna May 26, 2001 700+ words
...museums, and the late Jacob Lawrence heads the list. Mr...traveling exhibits "Jacob Lawrence: American Painter...The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence." The museum organized...reading "Chicago," "New York," "St. Louis...
- In the steps of Jacob Lawrence: a moving collage.
- Magazine article from: School Arts Cooney, Lil February 1, 2003 700+ words
...Last year I selected Jacob Lawrence, and followed a lesson...Series, announcing that Jacob Lawrence would be our African...say that in the 1930s Jacob Lawrence hadn't heard of it...own research in the New York City public libraries...
- Celebrate black history month!(Jacob Lawrence)(Biography)
- Magazine article from: School Arts February 1, 2003 700+ words
...work of artists of color. Jacob Lawrence's Journey Jacob Lawrence grew up during the Great Depression...Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City. As a teenager, he...actual pictures for us. Artist Jacob Lawrence, is known for telling stories...