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[[left page]] [[image of Jacob Lawrence]] JACOB LAWRENCE Jacob Lawrence——Biography Born: Atlantic City, New Jersey, September 7th 1917 Student: HARLEM ART WORKSHOP 1934-39; AMERICAN ARTISTS SCHOOL 1938 Exhibited: John Brown Series under auspices of AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ART, 1947, thirty paintings on history of the UNITED STATES, Alan Gallery, 1957. [[/left page]] [[right page]] One Man Shows: Migration Series, Museum of Modern Art, 1944, Downtown Gallery, N. Y. City, 1941-43-45-47-50-53, M’BARI ARTISTS AND WRITERS CLUB, Nigeria, 1962, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, N.Y. City, 1963; included JOHNSON WAX COMPANY World tour group exhibition, 1963, group exhibition sponsored by the STATE DEPARTMENT in Pakistan, 1963; works selected as part of exchange exhibit with SOVIET UNION, 1959, sponsored by STATE DEPARTMENT. Represented in: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.C, Whitney Museum of Amer. Art, N.Y.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, Wash., D.C., Portland (Ore.) Museum, Worcester (Mass.) Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Wichita Art Museum, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY.C., Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil, R.I. School of Design, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, IBM Corp., Continer Corp. of America. Awarded: Rosenwald Fellowship, 1940-41-42; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1945 purchase prize, Atlanta University, 1948; Norman Wait Harris Medal, Art Institute of Chicago, 1948; Academy of Arts and Letters grant, 1953; Chapelbrook Foundation grant, 1955; shared first prize in mural competition for United Nations building (National Council of United States Art) 1955; Recipient Retrospective Exhibition, sponsored by the Ford Foundation, 1960. Member: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND LETTERS ARTISTS EQUITY ASOCIATION OF NEW YORK, INC. (past president of New York Chapter, 1957) DINTENFASS GALLERY, New York City Teaching: Black Mountain College, 1947, Pratt Institute, 1958-67; Artist in Residence, Brandeis University, 1965 New School for Social Research; since 1966 Appointed to the faculty of the Art Students League; 1967 Visiting teacher: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Summer, 1968. Publications: FORTUNE Magazine, twenty-six paintings, November 1941 HARRIET AND THE PROMISED LAND—A story of Harriet Tubman the abolitionist, told in eighteen painting reproductions. Published by Windmill Books, Inc., September, 1968. Served on FULBRIGHT ART COMMITTEE, 1966-67 [[/right page]]