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 ...

Tracks the change in total value of sales, as well as the total number of lots offered and sold annually in the art market. This chart shows whether Jacob Lawrence’s total sales are going up, and if ...

A rare exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art features 60 of Lawrence's paintings about the journey of 6 million African-Americans, who... Painting The 'Epic Drama' Of The Great Migration: The ...

The great American painter Jacob Lawrence would have turned 100 this year. To celebrate that centennial, the Seattle Art Museum has scored a rare full exhibition of Lawrence’s narrative paintings — a ...

In late August, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a new show centered on Jacob Lawrence’s Struggle: From the History of the American People series, a sprawling, 30-panel epic that tells the story ...

“ … is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? —Patrick Henry, 1775,” Panel 1 (1955) from “Struggle: From the ...

Imagine discovering that a painting on your wall is a long, lost masterpiece. In two recent cases, the story centers on Jacob Lawrence, a pioneering American modernist painter. Lydia Gordon, of the ...

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum’s celebrated exhibition “Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle” has drawn many visitors, but recently one of them had a revelation: She suspected that one of five ...

There's no historical marker outside Jacob Lawrence's childhood home in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. But Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, ...