Tag: Jacob Lawrence
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Maurice Burns – interview: ‘I think musically when I compose my painting and in the choice of colours I use’
The artist talks about his current exhibition at Gerald Peters, his first show in New York, his complex, collage-like paintings, his friendship with RB Kitaj and listening to Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane while he paints
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America’s Cool Modernism: O’Keeffe to Hopper
As the US charged headlong into the 20th century, as its cities grew skywards and consumerism began to bubble up like the champagne at Jay Gatsby’s parties, some of modernism’s biggest names stood back and took stock. And the world…
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One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Works
The artist’s 60-part work, based on the Great Migration of black people from the south to the north of the US from 1915, is shown here in its entirety. Shifting between the personal and the monumental, it tells the story…
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American Modern – A Canon Revived
American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe The Museum of Modern Art, New York City 17 August 2013 – 26 January 2014
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