Who knows anything about Jacob Lawrence?
Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an African American painter; he was married to fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight. Life Lawrence is probably among the best-known twentieth century African American painters, a distinction also shared by Romare Bearden. Lawrence’s Migration Series made him nationally famous when it was featured in a 1941 issue of Fortune Magazine. The series depicts the great move north of blacks in the Depression years. Lawrence was born on September 7, 1917 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He had a sister named Geraldine and a brother named William. They moved many times over the course of his life but he first made his name in Harlem in 1930, where he went to school at Utopia Children’s House. Lawrence finally settled in Seattle, Washington where he married Gwendolyn Knight in 1970 and became an art professor at the University of Washington where some of his works are now displayed in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering and in Me
