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Birth
1917 (Atlantic City, New Jersey)
Death
2000 (Seattle, Washington)
Lived/Active
New York
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mod-naive urban genre-figure painting
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Categories of Interest
Black American Artists
Modernism
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Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Jacob Lawrence became known for his
narrative series of tempera paintings expressive of his own life and
that of his black peers who migrated from the South to the North.
His vivid collage-appearing canvases typically had bold planes of color
and symbolic elements of African-American heritage of struggles,
aspirations, and accomplishments.
Lawrence's style was wide
ranging, but he was most associated with narrative Synthetic Cubism
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