Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Atlantic City
- Educated at
- Pratt Institute
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 National Medal of Arts🏆 Spingarn Medal🏆 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences🏆 honorary degree from Spelman College
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Trending topics shown first"I try to point out to them there's less chance of your becoming just illustrative when you become involved with the plastic elements of painting. So in short this is how I try to adapt it to teaching.…"
"Jacob Lawrence", Queens Museum of Art website; includes reproductions of several prints from the John Brown series."
"Jacob Lawrence Information and Artwork at Woodside Braseth Gallery, Seattle"
"The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation website, works at Phillips Collection"
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Timeline
1917
Born
Birth2000
Died
Death
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