Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence (actually Jacob Armstead Lawrence ; born September 7, 1917 in Atlantic City , New Jersey , † June 9, 2000 in Seattle , Washington ) was an African-American painter .
Life
Jacob Lawrence moved to New York in 1924 with his single mother and two younger siblings, William and Geraldine . At the age of 16 he left the Utopia Children's House and worked in a laundry and print shop . Lawrence also attended classes at the Harlem Art Workshop and is sponsored by his mentor Charles Alston . In 1937 he received a scholarship to the American Artist School . The Rosenwald Fellowship , which he held in 1940, enabled him to work on his Migration series . During World War II , he served in the United States Navy . As a 24-year-old, Lawrence became the first African American whose work was on permanent display at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and two years later he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship . Under his then patrons Charles Alston and Henry Bannarn , supporters of the Harlem Renaissance , Lawrence studied art history at the Alston-Bannarn workshop in Harlem . In the early 1960s he dealt with the issue of civil rights activists in the southern states and the growth of the African-American movement. From 1971 Jacob Lawrence taught, together with his wife Gwendolyn Knight , at the University of Washington in Seattle. He used his art to tell the story of black people in the United States .
Awards
- 1965 elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 1979 elected member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design
- 1990 National Medal of Arts
- 1995 elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1998 The Medal of Merit
Individual evidence
- ^ Members: Jacob Lawrence. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed April 8, 2019 .
- ↑ nationalacademy.org: Artists & Architects "L" / Jacob Lawrence 1917 - 2000 ( memento of the original from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 30, 2015)
literature
- Peter Nesbett: Jacob Lawrence: The Complete Prints (1963-2000). University of Washington Press, 2001
- Peter Nesbett and Michelle Dubois: Over the Line: The Life and Art of Jacob Lawrence. University of Washington Press, 2002
- Thomas Riggs: The St. James Guide to Black Artist. James Press, Detroit 1997, ISBN 1-55862-220-9
- Ellen Harkins: Jacob Lawrence: American Painter.
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lawrence, Jacob |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lawrence, Jacob Armstead (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Atlantic City , New Jersey |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 9, 2000 |
| Place of death | Seattle , Washington |