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Jacob Lawrence Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Jacob Lawrence available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History 3 works online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas The Brown Angel, 1959
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City Includes biographical information about the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
Jacob Lawrence at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. 5 works online
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City Information about a 2007-2008 exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW! (Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
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
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
DePaul University Museum, Chicago Builders #3
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina Accident, 1946
Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Wisconsin Birth
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
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
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska The 1920s... The Migrants Cast Their Ballots, 1974
Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University Builders Three, 1991
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
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
Missoula Art Museum, Montana (Click on the object number for the artwork title & other information)
Museum of the 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
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Forward, 1967
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Builders No. 2, 1968
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Southern Alleghenies Museum, Pennsylvania
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW!
The Newark Museum, New Jersey The Bo-Lo Game, 1937
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Subway Home from Work, 1943
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)
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas 3 works online
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Jacob Lawrence at The Artchive
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
University of Michigan Fine Art Slides The Apartment
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Jacob and Gwen Knight Lawrence Virtual Resource Center Has an enormous amount of information about Jacob Lawrence and his wife Gwen (also an artist), plus a searchable archive of nearly 1,000 artworks
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 100-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
Jacob Lawrence at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C. The Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight papers online
The New York Observer "Painter Jacob Lawrence Still Grips and Stings", article by Hilton Kramer
The Village Voice "Harlem on His Mind", 2002 article by Jerry Saltz
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