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About the artist:
Jacob Lawrence's work combines realism with abstract decorative design and deals primarily with the black experience in America.
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In narrative series of American paintings, he has highlighted the lives of outstanding blacks and chronicled contemporary black history. Lawrence paints in tempera on a composition board, using highly-stylized figures, vivid primary colors, and sharp contrasts.
While still in his twenties, he was the first black artist to be honored with a one-man show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Lawrence was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1917, and spent his infancy in Easton, Pennsylvania.
When he was three, his mother took him to live in Harlem, then an active center for the arts.
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The young Lawrence began studying art at an early age, first in after-school programs and later at the Harlem Art Workshop. For much of this time, black artist Charles Alston was his mentor. In 1937, Lawrence received a schola