Writings
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Knight, Gwendolyn
label: Collection Creator
content: Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000
setName: label: See more items in
content: Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.5 Linear Feet (Boxes 5-6, 14-15)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1954-1959
label: Date
content: 1973-2005
label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lawrjaco, Series 3
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series includes published and unpublished writings by and about Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight, as well as writings by others. Found in this series are speeches, notes and notebooks, essays, articles, lists, poetry, and short stories. Also included is a visitor comment book from the Los Angeles County Museum exhibition of Jacob Lawrence's Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass Series.

Writings about Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight include profiles and essays written as part of a student's coursework, including a paper by Marie J. Demery in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts at the University of Wyoming, 1973.

Lists include inventory, illustration, exhibition, and slide lists. Also found in this series are memorial poems to Jacob Lawrence and short stories, some by unidentified authors.