Jacob Lawrence was an artist interested in portraying the lives and struggles of African Americans. Trained by a vibrant arts community during the Harlem Renaissance, Lawrence employed a modernist visual style influenced by African art that combined bright colors, angular figures, and a tight narrative structure to illustrate the histories and heroes of Black culture. For Sheldon in Focus, the museum draws from its collection two significant works by Jacob Lawrence—the painting Paper Boats (1948), and his eight-print series Eight Studies for The Book of Genesis (1990).
Exhibition on view at Sheldon Museum of Art August 15-December 31, 2024
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