AHere's an extensive bio for him:http://whitney.org/jacoblawrence/meet/index.html

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AIn Panel 57, there is a woman working as though she have no strength left in her body. Lawrence used variety of dark colors in this painting. 57 represents loneliness and misery. the women has no strength to work, but she has to work. The painting 58, depicts children enjoying education that was denied in the South.

AJacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 - June 9, 2000) was an African American painter; he was married to fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight.LifeLawrence 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 Meany Hall for the Performing Arts. The piece in the main lobby of Meany Hall entitled "Theatre" was commissioned for the hall in 1985. In 1998 he received Washington State's highest honor, The Washington Medal of Merit.WorkAt the age of twenty-one Lawrence completed his forty-one piece Toussaint l'Ouverture series, which chronologically documented the history of the Haïtian Revolution. These works documented Columbus's discovery of Haiti on December 6, 1492, and chronicled Toussaint's victory over the French with the signing of the Declaration of Independence on January 1, 1804. Between 1986 and 1997 Lawrence revisited this theme with a series of 15 screenprints based on these paintings.[1]Lawrence's work often portrayed important periods in African-American history. Among his works are a series of pieces about the abolitionist John Brown and another about Haitian revolutionary Toussaint l'Ouverture, as well as numerous depictions of Harriet Tubman. He was awarded the US National Medal of the Arts in 1990. The overall aim of his paintings were to give blacks reason to have pride, a sense of accomplishment, and hope for their future.

AJacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917–June 9, 2000) was an African American painter; he was married to fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight.Lawrence is probably among the most well 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. He 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 as part of the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. In 1998 he received Washington State's highest honor, The Washington Medal of Merit.Lawrence's work often portrayed important periods in African-American history. Among his works are a series of pieces about the abolitionist John Brown and another about Haitian revolutionary Toussaint l'Ouverture, as well as numerous depictions of Harriet Tubman. He was awarded the US National Medal of the Arts in 1990.

ALawrence is among the best-known twentieth century African American painters, a distinction shared with Romare Bearden. Lawrence was only in his twenties when his "Migration Series" made him nationally famous. The series of paintings was featured in a 1941 issue of Fortune magazine. The series depicted the epic Great Migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North. - I think every american knows why this is important to the history of the US. When Lawrence died on June 9, 2000, the New York Times called him "One of America's leading modern figurative painters" and "among the most impassioned visual chroniclers of the African-American experience.

AHe worked with a number of media: oil paint and collage work is what I am most familiar with.Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 - June 9, 2000) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_LawrenceJacob Lawrence Over the Line at the Philips Collection, Washington DChttp://www.phillipscollection.org/lawrence/

AI was at the auction at Christie’s when this Jacob Lawrence painting “The Builders” sold for $2,400,000:http://www.art-for-a-change.com/blog/images/sept07/jacob_lawrence.jpgThe Seamstress, 1946, gouache on paperhttp://3rdeyedrops.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/jacob-lawrence-the-seamstress-1946-gouache-on-paper_jpg.jpgIronersttp://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2010/02/black-history-month-open-thread-20/jacob-lawrence-ironers/Confrontation at the Bridge (1975)http://3rdeyedrops.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/jacob-lawrence-2.jpgJacob Lawrence’s painting “Control Panel.”http://3rdeyedrops.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/jacob_lawrence_control_panel.jpgThe Photographer, 1942http://3rdeyedrops.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/h2_2001-205.jpg(I own a wonderful Jacob Lawrence painting that hangs proudly in a guest bedroom)

AHi here is a link to buy the book. You can check and see if maybe your local library has the book or can borrow it from inter-library loan. Good luck!http://www.amazon.com/Lawrence-Getting-Worlds-Greatest-Artists/dp/0516265334/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1210026021&sr=8-1