Jacob Lawrence 1917-2000

1. 2-13-07, 9:32 am Jacob Lawrence1917-2000 On November 7, 2001, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Arts for Transit program unveiled a mammoth tile mosaic by African American artist Jacob Lawrence in the Tunes Square subway station. The mosaic, titled New York in Transit, is a tribute to the people of New York, their diversity, strength, work, leisure and their subway system. The work, finished posthumously with the aid of Lawrence's widow, artist Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, arcs above daily commuters and tourists as a tribute to the life of one of the greatest US artists of the 20th century. A retrospective exhibit, Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, organized by the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, is the most comprehensive exhibit of Lawrence's work ever shown. After a three-month run at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the exhibit will travel to the Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. At 13 years of age, Lawrence moved with his family to Harlem, which was beginning what would become known as the Harlem Renaissance. Lawrence was one of the first artists to be completely trained and developed within the African American community, at the heart of the burgeoning Harlem cultural upsurge.

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