Among the mysteries of recent art history is the whereabouts of many works by the great African American painter Jacob Lawrence. An industry that did not properly value Black artists’ contributions ...

Last week, Emily Zimmerman announced she would step down from her position as University of Washington's Jacob Lawrence Gallery director and curator in early April to take up the job as assistant ...

Painter Jacob Lawrence’s epic 30-panel series “Struggle: From the History of the American People” was exhibited twice after its creation in the 1950s, then never again. Now it’s back on view in ...

Since his first published print in 1963, artist Jacob Lawrence has produced a body of work that is highly dramatic and intensely personal. In his graphic work, as in his paintings, Lawrence has turned ...

Yesterday marked the inaugural Graduation Exhibition at the University of Washington's newly relocated and renovated Jacob Lawrence Gallery. The three-room gallery, which is named after a renowned ...

Jacob Lawrence, one of the great figurative painters of the 20th century, shares a gallery with his wife, Gwen Knight Lawrence, in a space intended to illuminate the Lawrences' experience of living in ...

Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective. By Siddhartha Mitter The museum catches up to the vital ...

Jacob Lawrence was an important African-American painter known for his portrayals of black culture in the early 20th century. Consisting of 60 panels of sensitively colored figurative paintings, the ...

Jacob Lawrence, "We crossed the River at McKonkey's Ferry 9 miles above Trenton...the night was excessively severe...which the men bore without the least murmur…" —Tench Tilghman, 27 December 1776 ...

Jacob Lawrence was an important African-American painter known for his portrayals of black culture in the early 20th century. Consisting of 60 panels of sensitively colored figurative paintings, the ...