Jacob Lawrence was not a painter of horror. He sometimes painted about horrible subjects — especially the ugly manifestations of American racism — but his work itself does not usually feel like a ...

DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Jacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture, a complete set of prints created by the artist between 1986 and 1997, rarely appearing together. The prints ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rebecca Cummins spent two months last summer in Shenzhen, China, shooting at the sky. From a single spot, she turned her camera upward and took photos at six-hour intervals, starting at 6 a.m. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oh shit, it is that time of year. Dead of grey-gloom winter, freezing rain, and everybody falling dowwn on the tightly packed bricks of the University of Washington’s Red Square. Slippery, so slippery ...