It is that struggle that Jacob Lawrence made the subject of 30 small paintings depicting key moments in early American history. “Struggle” is a national treasure. It is a work of sustained ...

Five months after a missing panel from Jacob Lawrence's Struggle series resurfaced, a second long-lost painting by the artist—pictured here in 1957—has been found. Smithsonian Archives of Amer ...

Jacob Lawrence, whose colorful paintings chronicled the history of black America with subtle emotion and evocative simplicity, died Friday of lung cancer at his home in Seattle. He was 82.

Hillary Sheets reported in the New York Times NYT on the recent discovery of the 1956 Jacob Lawrence work “Struggle”, a long thought lost piece of a series of 30 paintings on the nation’s ...

The series, completed when Lawrence was only 21 years old, consists of 41 paintings depicting scenes from the life of Toussaint L’Ouverture. The hero of the Haitian Revolution, L’Ouverture led ...

The auction high for a work by Lawrence is just over $6.1 million in 2018, for a 1947 painting, “The Businessmen.” “Any new and important Jacob Lawrence that surfaces would be a candidate ...

A New Orleans research center has received $1 million to conserve 41 paintings by Jacob Lawrence, one of the most important American artists of the 20th century. The three-year grant to the ...

Jacob Lawrence is a widely celebrated artist from the 20th century who has captivated viewers worldwide since his work was first acquired by major museums in 1940. Lawrence created artworks that ...

It is that struggle that Jacob Lawrence made the subject of 30 small paintings depicting key moments in early American history. “Struggle: From the History of the American People” had never ...