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Original works by Jacob Lawrence available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
6 works by Jacob Lawrence online
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
The Street, 1957
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
The Visitors, 1959
Jacob Lawrence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Pool Parlor, 1942 (Zoom)
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City
3 works online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
30 works by Jacob Lawrence online
Jacob Lawrence at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
6 works by Jacob Lawrence
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Forward, 1967
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
5 works online
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Seaman's Belt, 1945
Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
27 works listed, 2 of which can be viewed online
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
2 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable) NEW!
The Schomburg Library, blue ink, ca.1946
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Migrants Cast Their Ballots, 1974
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
The 1920's... The Migrants Cast Their Ballots, 1974
Delaware Art Museum
Bar and Grill
DePaul University Museum, Chicago
Builders #3
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York
Toussaint L'Ouverture series, 1987
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Marionettes, 1952
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
4 works online
Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, New York
Flash slideshow; Click "Works on Paper" and navigate to work #22
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
Illustrations for Aesop's Fables
Howard University Art Collection, Washington D.C.
To Preserve Their Freedom, 1988
Howard University Art Collection, Washington D.C.
Strike, 1949
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Occupational Therapy No.2
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University NEW!
Builders Three, 1991
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Forward Together, 1997 (PDF document)
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin NEW!
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the TITLE to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design
The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive to Cast their Ballots (image 3)
National Academy of Design, New York City
Self Portrait, 1977
Jacob Lawrence at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Self-portrait
Stokely Carmichael
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
Dreams
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Man with Flowers, 1954
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Free Clinic, 1943
Jacob Lawrence at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Weatherspoon Art Museum at The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Crippled Child on Crutches, 1935
Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Interior Scene, 1937
Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Jacob Lawrence: Thirty Years of Prints
Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Dancing Doll, 1947 (click "next" a few times)
Professional Tools:
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Jacob Lawrence in the Artchive
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
Humanities Web
University of Michigan Fine Art Slides
The Apartment
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Other Web Sites:
Institute of International Visual Arts, London, UK
Click "Gallery" at right to see works by Jacob Lawrence
New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. Art Collection
The Builders, lithograph, 1974
PBS
Biographical info from the African American World section of the PBS website
Rhapsodies in Black
The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"
The Microsoft Art Collection
Time Magazine Cover Archive
Lt. Colonel Ojukwu, 1968
Time Magazine Cover Archive
Jesse Jackson, 1970
University of Washington, Seattle
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jacob Lawrence
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
PBS
"Remembering Jacob Lawrence"
Resource Library Magazine
Jacob Lawrence -- Aesop's Fables
Resource Library Magazine
Dreams No. 2, 1965
Resource Library Magazine
Genesis Creation Sermon #7, 1989
Jacob Lawrence at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Interview from the Oral History project
Jacob Lawrence at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight papers online
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Painter Jacob Lawrence Still Grips and Stings
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