The people in Lawrence's paintings build and plant and dance and play pool and labor–they always labor. His paintings can enlighten and disturb at the same time. They have the power to change you. One ...

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 ...