Book Title: Jacob Lawrence in Seattle
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Book Description: Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is widely recognized as one of the most important American artists of the 20th century. He is best known for epic multi-panel narratives like the Migration Series (1940-1941) and Struggle: from the History of the American People (1954-56), which he created as a young artist living and working in in New York City. The second half of Lawrence’s career, which he spent in Seattle as a Professor of Art at the University of Washington, has received far less attention. The essays in this volume, researched and written by the participants in the Spring 2021 art history seminar “Art and Seattle: Jacob Lawrence” at the University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design, fill in this gap. In so doing, we take our lead from the artist’s own framing of the Seattle period as a critical stage in his artistic development, in which conceptual and formal concerns explored across his long career converged and became more of the sum of their parts.
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Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is widely recognized as one of the most important American artists of the 20th century. He is best known for epic multi-panel narratives like the Migration Series (1940-1941) and Struggle: from the History of the American People (1954-56), which he created as a young artist living and working in in New York City. The second half of Lawrence’s career, which he spent in Seattle as a Professor of Art at the University of Washington, has received far less attention. The essays in this volume, researched and written by the participants in the Spring 2021 art history seminar “Art and Seattle: Jacob Lawrence” at the University of Washington School of Art + Art History + Design, fill in this gap. In so doing, we take our lead from the artist’s own framing of the Seattle period as a critical stage in his artistic development, in which conceptual and formal concerns explored across his long career converged and became more of the sum of their parts.
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Jacob Lawrence in Seattle Copyright © 2021 by Juliet Sperling; Alexander Betz; Thomas Star; Ashley Tseng; Bailee Strong; Elizabeth Copland; Elizabeth Xiong; Grace Fletcher; Kate Whitney-Schubb; Kira Sue; Ryan Hawkins; Samantha Seaver; Mingjie Ma; Maya Green; Nicolas Staley; and Monica Ionescu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Jacob Lawrence in Seattle Copyright © 2021 by Juliet Sperling; Alexander Betz; Thomas Star; Ashley Tseng; Bailee Strong; Elizabeth Copland; Elizabeth Xiong; Grace Fletcher; Kate Whitney-Schubb; Kira Sue; Ryan Hawkins; Samantha Seaver; Mingjie Ma; Maya Green; Nicolas Staley; and Monica Ionescu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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