Artists of Black History Month: Jacob Lawrence

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Black River Auction Offers Two Signed Screenprints from American Painter One of the first nationally-recognized Black American painters, Jacob Lawrence completed his first significant painting series at 21 years old. Social realism was always the bedrock of Lawrence’s work. Throughout the 20th century, he returned to the vivid imagery of New York’s Harlem neighborhood to tell sweeping stories about Black history. “The community [in Harlem] let me develop,” he later reflected. “I painted the only way I knew how to paint… I tried to put the images down the way I related to the community.”