Description

Overview:

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.

Subject:

Art History

Level:

Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division

Material Type:

Textbook

Author:

Alexander Betz, Ashley Tseng, Bailee Strong, Elizabeth Copland, Elizabeth Xiong, Grace Fletcher, Juliet Sperling, Kate Whitney-Schubb, Kira Sue, Maya Green, Mingjie Ma, Monica Ionescu, Nicolas Staley, Ryan Hawkins, Samantha Seaver, Thomas Star

Provider:

University of Washington Libraries

Date Added:

07/10/2021