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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
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
The Street, 1957
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
7 works online
Jacob Lawrence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Pool Parlor, 1942 (Zoom)
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
3 works online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
(Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
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.
5 works online
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Seaman's Belt, 1945
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)
The Schomburg Library, blue ink, ca.1946
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Protest Rally, 1963-64
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
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
The Visitors, 1959
DePaul University Museum, Chicago
Builders #3
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
Accident, 1946
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin
Birth, 1948
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
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
Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Occupational Therapy No.2
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University
Builders Three, 1991
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Forward Together, 1997 (PDF document)
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
27 works listed, 2 of which can be viewed online
National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, 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
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina NEW!
Builders No. 2, 1968
Jacob Lawrence at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
The Bo-Lo Game, 1937
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)
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas NEW!
3 works online
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
Miscellaneous 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
Jacob Lawrence at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Papers of African American Artists (see the links at right)
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 and Reference Sites:
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.
1968 interview from the Oral History project
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
Time Magazine
"Stanzas from a Black Epic", 1993 article by Robert Hughes
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