Jacob Lawrence

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Unique Work

About

Born in 1917, Jacob Lawrence gained national recognition at the age of 23 for his MIGRATION SERIES, a 60 panel series of paintings depicting the Great Migration of African-Americans who migrated from the rural South to the urban North between 1916 and 1970. He has had solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY, and many other international institutions. The Seattle Art Museum has hosted important exhibitions of his work, as has the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington. His work has been collected by museums around the world.

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