Sheets This article is part of our latest special report on Museums, which focuses on the intersection of art and politics. During the civil rights movement in the mid-1950s, Jacob Lawrence (1917 ...

by the best-known Black American artist of the 20th century, Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000). Created during the modern civil rights era, Lawrence’s 30 intimate panels interpret pivotal moments in ...

Amid the McCarthy hearings and the launch of the civil rights movement in the 1950s, painter Jacob Lawrence, the most famous black artist of his era, sought to reframe early American history the ...

It is that struggle that Jacob Lawrence made the subject ... Lawrence (1917-2000) was a black artist and veteran living through the civil rights era. Even as he was recovering from crippling ...

human relations and civil rights, its website explains. Jacob Lawrence, who started art classes in his youth, was one of the first artists trained in and by the African American community in Harlem.

A sharp-eyed visitor to “Jacob Lawrence ... them to show the painting.”⁣⁣⁣ Lawrence (1917–2000) painted the 30-panel “Struggle” series during the civil rights movement to ...

At an early age, Jacob Lawrence knew something was missing ... Lawrence soon turned to explore the contemporary civil rights movement. As art historian Ellen Harkins Wheat wrote, “responding ...

But they’re back now in triumph, in “Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of 1938-40” at the Baltimore Museum of Art ... before the Civil War and later in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech ... A second panel from American artist Jacob Lawrence's sweeping series “Struggle: From the History of the American People" that has ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big ... paid for by those who can afford it. A painting by American artist Jacob Lawrence that has not been seen in public for 60 years has been ...

It is that struggle that Jacob Lawrence made the subject ... Lawrence (1917-2000) was a black artist and veteran living through the civil rights era. Even as he was recovering from crippling ...