Jacob Lawrence
The Migration Series, Panel no. 57: The female workers were the last to arrive north. (between 1940 and 1941)
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Jacob and Gwen Lawrence, Photo by Arnold Newman, 1933-46
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Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917-2000), Trappers, 1956. Tempera on Masonite, 16 x 12 in.
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Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), 'The Council of Mice', ''Aesop's Fables'', 1997
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The 306 Workshop Group in front of 306 West 141st St., late 1930s.
The 306 Workshop Group, also known as the Harlem Art Workshop, was founded by artist Charles Alston. This group served to bring together Black artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Augusta Savage, and Langston Hughes, just to name a few. Located at 306 West 141st Street in Harlem, the Harlem Art Workshop provided these artists with both a meeting and work space.
In the 1920s, Harlem became a coveted address. The neighborhood in New York City was synonymous with an outpouring of production in the visual arts, music, literature, theater, and dance that some began referring to the creative era as the Harlem Renaissance.
Famous artists of the Harlem Renaissance included: sociologist and historian W.E.B. Du Bois, writers Claude McKay, Langton Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston, musician Duke Ellington, and entertainer Josephine Baker. These artists strove to express their racial identity and pride.
Jacob Lawrence, an artist of the Harlem Renaissance, believed his paintings were “a portrait of myself, a portrait of my community.” The community he grew up around included artist and mentor Charles Alston and leading philosopher Alain LeRoy Locke.
The people of Harlem and their rich heritage were constant sources of inspiration for Lawrence. The community experience—its triumphs and tragedies, its dreams and disappointments, its pleasures and humility, collectively forged by the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Depression era—lives on in his paintings.
Photo & text: Phillips Collection
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Strong Man, Jacob Lawrence, 1951
Casein tempera and gouache on paper
22 x 17 in. (55.88 x 43.18 cm)
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Jacob Lawrence - “The photographer”
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Jacob Lawrence, Watchmaker, 1946 (via Hodinkee)
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Jacob Lawrence
Going to Work
gouache
1943
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Panel 1 of “Struggle: From the History of the American People.” - Jacob Lawrence (1954-56)
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Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), 'The Ballad of Margie Polite', 1948 (based on the poem by Langston Hughes)
The image above was pulled from the book, ''Painting Harlem Modern : The Art of Jacob Lawrence'' by Patricia Hills and the paragraph was pulled from ''Enter the New Negroes : Images of Race in American Culture'' by Martha Jane Verfasse Nadell.
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Jacob Lawrence, Harlem Diner, 1938. Water-pressed tempera on paper, laid on board.
Photo: NY Historical Society/Art Students League
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