To celebrate Black History Month, I am posting some work of one Black visual artist from history per day.
For February 18th, I am posting work by Jacob Lawrence. (2/2)
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth #JacobLawrence #painter
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To celebrate Black History Month, I am posting some work of one Black visual artist from history per day.
For February 18th, I am posting work by Jacob Lawrence. (1/2)
#BlackHistoryMonth #JacobLawrence #painter
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Seen at my mama’s house: Feb. 2016 @newyorker.com issue featuring a beautiful @kadirnelson.bsky.social piece highlighting #ZoraNealeHurston, #MalcolmX, #JamesBaldwin, #DukeEllington, #BillieHoliday, the #NicholasBrothers, & the art of artists like #JacobLawrence. #BlackHistory #Storytelling #ArtSky

Painting by Jacob Lawrence showing a group of stylized construction workers assembling a structure. Figures in blue and brown clothing lift and position beams within a shallow, geometric space. Large red rectangular forms dominate the composition, interlocking with smaller black shapes. Brown and gray elements suggest plywood panels and horizontal supports. The scene is flattened and rhythmic, with strong diagonals and saturated colors characteristic of Lawrence’s style.

When we wall ourselves off from the arts because they’ve been weaponized as status symbols, we lose access to something that actually belongs to all of us.

Please read more about "The Arts and Elitism," at open.substack.com/pub/randallw...

#painting #arts #elitism #BlackHistoryMonth #JacobLawrence

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBC #Radio3's #ClassicalLive

Giacomo Carissimi, Carine Tinney, Jacob Lawrence, Vox Luminis & Lionel Meunier:
🎵 Historia di Jephte, oratorio

#BBCRadio3 #GiacomoCarissimi #CarineTinney #JacobLawrence #VoxLuminis #LionelMeunier

Pastel and acrylic painting shows a green man with a big mustache and big brown eyes and blue hair wearing a turquoise suit, a white shirt, and a sky blue tie. The background is a lavender wallpaper.

Portrait Of Jacob Lawrence. Born in New Jersey in 1917, Lawrence was a painter known for depicting African-American history with a sort of figurative/cubist style. #art #artist #artsky #painter #painting #jacoblawrence #traditionalart

JACOB LAWRENCE
American artist
1917-2000
Vaudeville, 1951
Egg tempera on hardboard with pencil
75.9 x 50.7 cm

#JacobLawrence
#Americanart

JACOB LAWRENCE
American artist
1917-2000
Painting the Bilges, 1944
Gouache on paper
78.4 x 57.5 cm

#JacobLawrence
#Americanart

JACOB LAWRENCE
American artist
1917-2000
Builders No. 3, 1973
Tempera gouache on paper
73 x 50.6 cm

#JacobLawrence
#Americanart

JACOB LAWRENCE
American artist
1917-2000
Cabinet Maker, 1957
Casein tempera on paper
77.5 x 57.2 cm

#JacobLawrence
#Americanart

Mis deze bijzondere tentoonstelling niet.

Het eerste oeuvre-overzicht in Europa van de Afrikaans-Amerikaanse modernist Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) bij Kunsthal KAdE Amersfoort.
#JacobLawrence #Lawrence

James Lawrence vroeg werk

James Lawrence

James Lawrence

James Lawrence

Deze #tentoonstelling zien over #JacobLawrence was een glimpse van een wereld in balans: namelijk niet alleen het #verhaal, beelden van de gepriviligeerde bovenlaag maar ook die van de onderlaag. Wat een talent, autodidact. Tm4jan!
@pengwen.me ##WinterFotoFestival
#tradities veranderen constant.

Later werk Jacob Lawrence

Later werk Jacob Lawrence

Vroeg werk Jacob Lawrence , gemaakt als tiener.

Vroeg werk Jacob Lawrence

#MustSee in Amersfoort NL: #JacobLawrence @ KAdE museum. Last chances till Sun 4 January. #art #kunst #museum #uitje

Jacob Lawrence gaf gestalte aan de Afro-Amerikaanse ervaring. Zestig jaar na dato is zijn kunst pijnlijk actueel In krachtige, kleurrijke voorstellingen, nu te zien in Amersfoort, gaf Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) gestalte aan de Afro-Amerikaanse ervaring. Altijd sociaal geëngageerd, en altijd vanuit een kant van h...

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Mis deze tentoonstelling niet:
De indrukwekkende, overweldigende overzichtstentoonstelling Jacob Lawrence | African American Modernist, in Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort.
Nog tot 5-01-2026!
#JacobLawrence #SocialModernist
www.volkskrant.nl/tentoonstell...

Jacob Lawrence gaf gestalte aan de Afro-Amerikaanse ervaring. Zestig jaar na dato is zijn kunst pijnlijk actueel In krachtige, kleurrijke voorstellingen, nu te zien in Amersfoort, gaf Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) gestalte aan de Afro-Amerikaanse ervaring. Altijd sociaal geëngageerd, en altijd vanuit een kant van h...

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Dwingende oproep: Mis deze tentoonstelling niet:
De indrukwekkende, overweldigende overzichtstentoonstelling Jacob Lawrence | African American Modernist, in Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort.
#JacobLawrence #SociaModernist

www.volkskrant.nl/tentoonstell...

Image from https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-4.html: Lawrence 'was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey. ... Lawrence is among the best-known twentieth-century African-American painters, known for his modernist illustrations of everyday life as well as narratives of African-American history and historical figures. At the age of 23 he gained national recognition with his 60-panel The Migration Series, which depicted the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North. The series was purchased jointly by the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Lawrence's works are in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Reynolda House Museum of American Art and the Museum of Northwest Art. His 1947 painting The Builders hangs in the White House.’

#Fortune for #OCTOBER 1946
‘African Gold Rush’
Illustration by Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000 👉ALT)
Cover of *Fortune*, October 1946
#FortuneCover #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #AmericanArt #graphicdesign #JacobLawrence #Africa #mining #gold

Jacob Lawrence in Kade museum Amersfoort. Original treatment of important subjects, smart complex compositions: beautiful art. Clear, informative presentation, friendly staff. Five stars. #jacoblawrence #exhibition #art

Windows
Jacob Lawrence
Date: 1977
Style: Expressionism, Social Realism

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#Art #JacobLawrence

🎨 On This Day in Black History – September 7, 1917 🎨 We celebrate the birth of Jacob Lawrence, one of the most important American painters of the 20th century. Born in Atlantic City, Lawrence became renowned for his bold use of color and storytelling through art. His most famous work, The Migration Series, powerfully depicts the journey of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North, capturing the struggles and triumphs of Black life. Lawrence’s art combined history, culture, and everyday experiences, making him not only a painter but also a visual historian of the African American experience. 🗣️ “For me, the most important thing is to paint what I know, what I have experienced.” – Jacob Lawrence 💬 Which of Jacob Lawrence’s works has inspired you most? Share below! #BlackHistory #JacobLawrence #OnThisDay #BlackArt #CulturalHeritage #TheMigrationSeries #BlackExcellence #TheEnglandManor #AAM_EM #AAM

🎨 On This Day in Black History – September 7, 1917 🎨

We celebrate the birth of Jacob Lawrence, one of the most important American painters of the 20th century.

#BlackHistory #JacobLawrence #OnThisDay #BlackArt #CulturalHeritage #TheMigrationSeries #BlackExcellence #TheEnglandManor #AAM_EM #AAM

🎨 #JacobLawrence, African American painter and educator, was #BOTD 7 September 1917. #Art #Painting

Ik verheug me enorm op deze tentoonstelling van Jacob Lawrence in Amersfoort vanaf 27 september. Een aantal van zijn schilderijen gebruik ik al jaren als voorbeeld voor de schilderles. Zulke mooie kleuren en krachtige vormen!
#kademuseum #kunst #tentoonstelling #jacoblawrence

#JacobLawrence 🎨

Weekes was also president of #FultonArtFair an organization co-founded in 1958 by artists #ErnestCrichlow and #JacobLawrence to promote the art of people of Caribbean and African descent.

Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), American painter

Died #otd Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), American painter, 25 years ago today #JacobLawrence life story...

🎨 #JacobLawrence, African American artist, #DOTD 9 June 2000. #Art #Painting

Jacob Lawrence
American artist
1917-2000
Students and Books, 1966
Tempera on board
23 ⅞ x 35 ⅞ in.

#JacobLawrence
#Americanart

Book covers of Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler and Lines of Influence about the artist Jacob Lawrence

My weekend (re)reading...Parable of the Sower by the brilliant author #OctaviaButler and a book about one of my favorite artists, #JacobLawrence!

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## Puzzle: Jacob Lawrence, The Wedding

Jacob Lawrence, The Wedding – 1000 pieces by Pomegranate

I love the puzzles Pomegranate puts out, including this 10000 piece one published with the Art Institute of Chicago, with Jacob Lawrence’s _The Wedding_ […]

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#JacobLawrence #Artists #USNationalMedalOfArts #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth