Transcript Jacob Lawrence Art

Jacob Lawrence Art
By : Chloe ,Sean , Caileb ,Carlos ,and
Brayden
About his Childhood
• Born in New Jersey but raised in New York City's
Harlem
• Jacob Lawrence was the most widely acclaimed
African-American artist of the 20th century.
Known for producing narrative collections like the
Migration Series and War Series
• He brought the African-American experience to
life using blacks and browns juxtaposed with vivid
colors. He also taught, and spent 15 years as a
professor at the University of Washington.
When and where he was born and
raised
• The date Jacob Lawrence was born in was
September ,7th, 1917
• He died June 9th,2000
• His hometown was in New Jersey , Atlantic
city
• His family lived in Phila
• delphia for a few years, before finally moving
to Harlem when Lawrence was about 13 years
old. It was the 1930's, in the midst of the
Great Depression and the tail end of the
dynamic literary and artistic period known as
the Harlem Renaissance.
• As a young child Jacob Lawrence absorbed the
influences of economic hard times and a burgeoning
black consciousness.
• Lawrence was inspired by his first mentor, artist
Charles Alston, and the sculptor and painter Augustus
Savage. Also, Romaire Beardon and another budding
young artist, Gwendolyn Knight, whom he later
married.
• It was during this time that Lawrence began spending
long hours in places like Harlem's Chambourg Library,
diligently researching the epic struggles of the heroes
and she-roes of the black community.
• This picture here was Jacob Lawrence's first
picture he made when he wanted to start to
be an artist
bibliogrophy
• http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember
/jan-june00/lawrence_6-13.html