Painting Harlem modern : the art of Jacob Lawrence /
Hills, Patricia.
Lawrence, Jacob,1917-2000.
Getty Foundation.
Berkeley : University of California Press,
c2009.
"Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint"--Prelim. p.
"Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The artist's place in Harlem. Harlem's artistic community in the 1930s -- Patrons and the making of a professional artist -- Themes and issues. African American storytelling: Toussaint L'Ouverture and Harriet Tubman -- The great migration in memory, pictures, and text -- Confrontations with the Jim Crow South in the 1940s -- Home in Harlem: tenements and streets -- The double consciousness of masks and masking -- The paintings of the protest years, 1955-70 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Jacob Armstead Lawrence and his family.
Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000
Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000