Jacob Lawrence

Jacob Armstead Lawrence ( bɛ dɔɣi o la silimiingoli September dabaayɔpoin dali yuuni  1917 ka o kani silimiingoli June dabaawei dali yuuni  2000)  o daa nyɛla ŋun tumdi nucheeni tuma din nyɛ peentin . Lawrence bolila o ni peentiri sham maala  "dynamic cubism", nucheeni tuma din yuli du pam Europe tingban ni, ka di nyɛ din nyam ka kpaŋssi (West African mini Meso-American) nucheeni tuma  

 O mamaŋ taarihi 
Lawrence's paɣi n nyɛɛ , Gwendolyn Knight, ka o daa che o ka kani yuuni 2005 o ni daa nyɛ yuun pihi Wei ni yini 91.

 O tuma ni kpaŋmaŋ pina nima 
 1945: Awarded a fellowship in the fine arts by the Guggenheim Foundation
 1970: Awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP for his outstanding achievements
 1971: Elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design
 1978: Elected a member of the National Academy of Design
 1983: Elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
 1990: Awarded the U.S. National Medal of Arts
 1995: Elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 
 1996: The Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University awarded him the Algur H. Meadows Award for Excellence.
 1998: Awarded the highest honor of Washington state, The Washington Medal of Merit

The eighteen institutions that awarded Lawrence honorary degrees include Harvard University, Yale University, Howard University, Amherst College, and New York University.

 Nyami yaha 
 List of African-American visual artists
 List of Federal Art Project artists

 Kundivihira 

Karindi shɛŋa yaha
 Bearden, Romare, and Henderson, Harry. A History of African-American Artists (From 1792 to the Present), pp. 293–314, Pantheon Books (Random House), 1993, 
 Caro, Julie Levin, and Jeff Arnal, eds (2019). Between Form and Content : Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence   + Black Mountain College.  Asheville, N.C.: Black Mountain College Museum +   Arts Center. .
Caro, Julie Levin and Storm Janse van Rensburg, ed. (2020). Jacob Lawrence : Lines of Influence. Zurich, Switzerland : Scheidegger & Spiess ; Savannah, Georgia : SCAD Museum of Art. .
Dickerman, Leah, Elsa Smithgall, Elizabeth Alexander, Rita Dove, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Tyehimba Jess, et al. (2015). Jacob Lawrence : The Migration Series. New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art. .
Driskell, David C, and Patricia Hills. (2008). Jacob Lawrence : Moving Forward Paintings, 1936–1999. New York: DC Moore Gallery. .
Hills, Patricia  (2019). Painting Harlem Modern : The Art of Jacob Lawrence. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. 


Miles, J. H., Davis, J. J., Ferguson-Roberts, S. E., and Giles, R. G. (2001). Almanac of {{African American Heritage, Paramus, NJ: Prentice Hall Press.
Nesbett, Peter T, Michelle DuBois, and Patricia Hills. (2000). Over the Line : The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence. The Complete Jacob Lawrence. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press in association with Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonné Project. .
Nesbett, Peter T., and Patricia Hills (2005). Jacob Lawrence : The Complete Prints (1963–2000) : A Catalogue Raisonné. 2nd ed. Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press. .
Nesbett, Peter T., and Patricia Hills. (1994). Jacob Lawrence : Thirty Years of Prints (1963–1993): A Catalogue Raisonné. Seattle: Francine Seders Gallery in association with University of Washington Press. . 







Turner, Elizabeth Hutton, ed., Lonnie G Bunch III, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., et al. (1993). Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series. 1st ed. Washington, D.C.: Rappahannock Press, in association with the Phillips Collection. . 

Wheat, Ellen Harkins (1991). Jacob Lawrence : The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of 1938–40. Hampton, Va.: Hampton University Museum; Seattle : in association with University of Washington Press. .
Wheat, Ellen Harkins, and Patricia Hills (1986). Jacob Lawrence, American Painter. Seattle: University of Washington Press in association with the Seattle Art Museum. .

External links


"Jacob Lawrence", Queens Museum of Art website; includes reproductions of several prints from the John Brown series.
The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation website, works at Phillips Collection
Jacob Lawrence, Interior Scene  (1937), Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio

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