My pictures express my life and experience. I paint the things I know about and the things I have experienced.The thingd I have experienced extend into my national,racial,and class group.So I paint the American Scene.
Foreword by Bruce Guenther
Acknowledgments
Jacob Lawrence's Expressive Cubism by Patricia Hills
1. Introduction
2. Origins: 1917 to 1940
3. Early Maturity: 1940 to 1949
4. Mid-Career in New York: 1949 to 1968
5. At Home in the West: 1968 to Present
6. Conclusion
Notes
Chronology
Checklist of the Exhibition
Exhibition History
Work in Public and Corporate Collections
Bibliography
Index
Photo Credits