You might think it would be difficult to name just one most exciting thing about the Kayden family’s recent gift of 56 works by celebrated Harlem Renaissance artist Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) ...

There's no historical marker outside Jacob Lawrence's childhood home in New York City's Harlem ... "but also that they were also going to challenge that new place to live up to its own possibilities." ...

A second panel from American artist Jacob Lawrence's sweeping series “Struggle ... that was rediscovered in a different home in October. The owner, who wants to remain anonymous, inherited ...

Victory and Defeat, Panel 13 from "Struggle: From the History of the American People," 1954-56, by Jacob Lawrence. Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross. © The ...

Painter Jacob Lawrence died on June 9th at the age of 82 Audio will be available later today. For six decades, Lawrence had been widely regarded as one of America's most important black artists.

Panel 2 of Jacob Lawrence ... Knight and Lawrence had long ago moved to Seattle from New York. But the Modern and the Met, he told me, still felt like home to him. As a teenager in the 1930s ...

At an early age, Jacob Lawrence knew ... all of what was going on around him,” according to Virginia Mecklenburg, chief curator at Smithsonian American Art Museum, home to nearly a dozen of ...

Jacob died Wednesday, May 6, 2009, at his home. He was born July 15, 2005, in Lawrence, the son of Kirk ... reading books with his father and going on drives with his mother.

I first met the artist Jacob Lawrence in his attic ... later said the entire faculty was surprised that Lawrence would leave New York, his home and the center of the American art world.

An affidavit previously obtained by the local news stations stated that Jacob left his girlfriend's house, saying he was going to have dinner with his family. After Man Kills His Wife, Mother-in ...

But when it came to Jacob Lawrence, the beloved African American painter who died this weekend at the age of 82, the word carries only positive connotations. The apparent simplicity and piercing ...