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Jacob Lawrence
African American painter and art professor (1917–2000)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 7 September 1917
- Died
- 9 June 2000
- Place of birth
- Atlantic City
- Place of death
- Seattle
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Lawrence
- Spouse
- Gwendolyn Knight
- Movement
- social realism
- Field of work
- painting
- Occupation
- painter, draftsperson, printmaker, illustrator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship, Spingarn Medal, National Medal of Arts, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary degree from Spelman College
- archives at
- Archives of American Art
- artist files at
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Library and Archives, Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, Frick Art Research Library, College for Creative Studies Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, National Gallery of Art Library
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- copyright representative
- reproduction right represented by CISAC-member, Artists Rights Society
- described by source
- National Gallery of Art Library Vertical Files, St. James Guide to Black Artists
- educated at
- Pratt Institute
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- has works in the collection
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, George and Joyce Wein Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art
- influenced by
- Augusta Savage
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- notable work
- Builders No. 1, New York in Transit
- represented by
- Artists Rights Society
Connected on Wikidata
Creator of
- Migration Series
- Untitled
- Builders No. 1
- The Visitors
- Pool Parlor
- World War had caused a great shortage in Northern industry and also citizens of foreign countries were returning home
- In many of the communities the Negro press was read continually because of its attitude and its encouragement of the movement
- Another of the social causes of the migrants' leaving was that at times they did not feel safe or it was not the best thing to be found on the streets late at night. They were arrested on the slightest provocation
- Child labor and a lack of education was one of the other reasons for people wishing to leave their homes
- And people all over the South began to discuss this great movement
- The labor agent who had been sent South by Northern industry was a very familiar person in the Negro counties
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