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Jacob Lawrence

[African-American Harlem Renaissance Painter, 1917-2000]

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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

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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
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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)

 
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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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Jacob Lawrence: Library, 1969
Library, 1969


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Jacob Lawrence: The Lovers, 1946
The Lovers, 1946


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Barber Shop, 1946
Barber Shop, 1946


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Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series, No. 58, 1941
The Migration Series, No. 58, 1941


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Jacob Lawrence: Parade
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Home Chores, 1945
Home Chores, 1945

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Aesop's Fables


 
 
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