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LAWRENCE,JACOBdate: 1990 ref:
jl-1196-04 est: 300-500
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Poster for National Afro American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, Ohio heavy poster stock, signed in heavy black felt tip pen, , , , ,,(sheet) 24 x 18.5 in (61 x 47 cm) ,(plate-image) 19 7/8 x 16 3/8 in (50.5 x 41.5 cm), Excellent condition.,Framed, but unexamined out of the frame., This is an original poster signed by pre-eminent African American artist Jacob Armstead Lawrence. This was produced in 1990 to advertise an exhibition of the artist's work in Ohio, at the National Afro American art and Cultural Center in Wilberforce. The featured painting is COMMUNITY from 1986. The artist has hand signed this poster below the featured image. The work is in excellent condition, on very heavy poster stock, and measures about 24 by 16 1/2 inches. The signature was done in heavy black felt tip pen and is strong. Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) is best known for his narrative paintings depicting important moments in African American history. In his early teens, his mother enrolled him in Utopia Children's Center, which provided an after-school art program in Harlem. By the mid-1930s, he was regularly participating in art programs at the Harlem Art Workshop and the Harlem Community Art Center where he was exposed to leading director of the Harlem Art Workshop - later, professor of art at Howard University. Lawrence secured a scholarship to the American Artists School and later gained employment with the WPA, working as a painter in the easel division. Lawrence began painting in series format in the late 1930s, completing 41 paintings on the life of Toussaint L'Ouverture, the revolutionary who established the Haitian Republic. Other series followed on the lives of abolitionists Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and John Brown. The Migration of the Negro, one of his best known series, was completed in 1941. The most widely acclaimed African American artist of his century, Lawrence continued to paint until his death in 2000.
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