Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence.(Brief Article)

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Although it's troublesome to hear people using Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) to beat up on other socially oriented artists--as if his cogent, pared-down forms were the goal they had missed--his work itself is undeniable. Simultaneously modest and ambitious, his epic cycles of paintings on black history, most famously "The Migration of the Negro" (1940-41), tell ...

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