NEWS & REVIEWS
The art of struggleThe renowned American figurative painter Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) brought a Harlem-honed social consciousness and spare, Cubist-inflected style to works that were masterpieces of visual storytelling. One series of his narrative paintings is on display through December 15th in a small, powerful exhibition at Harvard University's W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. More » |
The beauty of Lawrence's workJacob Lawrence was a good friend, and I learned so much from him personally about art and art collecting. I had the great pleasure and honor to host him and his wife, Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence (also an artist) in a conversation, along with Paul Theroux, in the Portland Arts & Lectures 1993-1994 series, and always found him to be as vivid a conversationalist as he was a painter. More » |
