Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence (actually Jacob Armstead Lawrence, born September 7, 1917 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, † June 9, 2000 in Seattle, Washington) was an African-American painter.
Life
Jacob Lawrence moved with his single mother and two younger siblings, William and Geraldine, 1924 in New York. At the age of 16, he leaves the Utopia Children 's House and worked in a laundry and printing. Lawrence attended besides prices on the Harlem Art Workshop, sponsored by his mentor Charles Alston. In 1937 he received a scholarship to the American Artist School. The Rosenwald Fellowship, which he held in 1940, enabled him to work on his Migration series. During the Second World War he served in the United States Navy. As a 24 -year-old Lawrence was the first African American, whose work in a permanent exhibition of the New York Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA) was seen, and two years later he earned a Guggenheim Fellowship. Under his former promoter Charles Alston and Henry Bannarn, supporters of the Harlem Renaissance, Lawrence studied art history at the Alston - Bannarn Workshop in Harlem. In the early 1960s, he dealt with the issue of civil rights in the southern states and the growth of the African- American movement. From 1971 taught Jacob Lawrence, along with his wife Gwendolyn Knight, at the University of Washington in Seattle. He used his art to tell the story of blacks in the United States.