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Art in America, Sept, 2003 by John P. Bowles

(8.) Ellen Harkins Wheat, quoting Lawrence, has described his stay at Black Mountain as very important to his later work, whereas Paul Karlstrom, also quoting Lawrence, argues that it was not. Ellen Harkins Wheat, Jacob Lawrence: American Painter, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1986, pp. 72-73. Paul J. Karlstrom, "Jacob Lawrence: Modernism, Race, told Community," in Nesbett and DuBois, eds., Over the Line, pp. 243 and 245, n. 30. For examples of the work Lawrence exhibited at Black Mountain, see Peter T. Nesbett and Michelle DuBois, Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999): A Catalogue Raisonne, Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2000, pp. 91, 94.

Author: John P. Bowles is assistant professor of modern and contemporary American art at Indiana University.