Jacob Lawrence: Prints
Jacob Lawrence: Prints, features color prints created by Jacob Lawrence between 19872 and 2000. The exhibition was curated by Peter Nesbett, editor of Jacob Lawrence, The Complete Prints (1963-2000), The Catalogue Raisonne.
Jacob Lawrence: Prints provides a rare opportunity to experience Lawrence's work first-hand. It provides insight into Lawrence's interest in visual storytelling and his deft ability to address grand subjects with an economy of artistic means. They are evidence of the artist's ability to mine historical subject matter to address contemporary concerns. And they reflect the artist's ongoing attempt to explore the nature of humanity and to make sense of the mysteries of life.
Since his first published print in 1963 Jacob Lawrence has produced a body of prints that is both highly dramatic and intensely personal. In his graphic work, as in his paintings, Lawrence has turned to the lessons of history and to his own experience. From depictions of civil rights confrontations to scenes of daily life, these images present a vision of a common struggle to-ward unity and equality, a universal struggle deeply seated in the depths of the human consciousness.
The exhibition will be on view April 21-June 15, 2012.
Thank you to our generous partners:
Department of Multicultural Services
MSC Carter G. Woodson Black Awareness Committee
Africana Studies Program
Race & Ethnic Studies Institute | 
