Jacob Lawrence, At Times It Is Hard to Get a Table in a Pool Room, 1943. ... looms in the foreground of At Times It Is Hard to Get a Table in a Pool Room (1943). Alice’s ordeal is ongoing. Jacob ...

Lawrence was born Sept. 7, 1917, in Atlantic City, N.J. the oldest child of Jacob and Rosa Lee Lawrence. His father worked as a railroad cook and in 1919, he moved the family to Easton, Penn ...

Jacob Lawrence ... nearly Lawrence’s entire career. Subjects include Harlem street scenes and social life (“At Times It Is Hard to Get a Table in a Pool Room,” 1943); the abolitionist ...