In a small but haunting survey at the Met, a celebrated conceptual artist shifts gears, with meteoric results.

Stokely Carmichael had already served 49 days inside a Mississippi prison farm for nonviolent civil rights ... known African-American artist in the nation, Jacob Lawrence, to produce the portrait.

More than 30 years later, the civil rights leader ... Norman Rockwell and Jacob Lawrence alongside those of the emerging and self-taught. The art—sculptures, collages, paintings, prints ...

The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography by Bob Packert / PEM Artist Jacob Lawrence with Panels 26 and 27 from "Struggle ...

(Margery Lewis Smith/Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Wyeth/Wyeth Foundation for American Art/Artists Rights Society/Brandywine ... including Jacob Lawrence, George Tooker and Paul Cadmus) preferred to ...

Early on, Whitten knew he too wanted to be an artist, though it took a while to make the move. In the late 1950s, he immersed himself in civil rights ... There’s Jacob Lawrence, who mentored ...

Whitten’s first paid commission was a civil-rights poster ... Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, and Norman Lewis. Whitten lived on the Lower East Side, where he marveled at the racial integration.

The tour began with artworks from ancient Africa, then worked its way through the collection to the more contemporary works, including Harlem Renaissance greats like Jacob Lawrence, sculptor ...

Josephine Baker, the iconic Jazz Age entertainer, was committed to civil rights ... from memory. Jacob Lawrence captured the streets and stoops of Harlem in many of his paintings from the 1940s.

It’s been seven months since Jacob was home. His bedroom remains exactly how he left it. His paintings are proudly ... to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child ...