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LAWRENCE,Jacob,Florist'sWindow, 20 x24. Illustration—Plate 76
LawrencewasborninAtlanticCity,NewJersey,in 1917 butspentmostofhis
childhoodinEastonandPhiladelphia,Pennsylvania.HemovedtoNewYorkCity
in 1931 whereheattendedtheVVPAAnSchool(HarlemArtWorkshop),studied
withCharlesAlston,andfrom 1937 to 1938 attendedtheAmericanArtists.School.
Theyears1939-1940broughtworkontheFederal.ArtProject;1941-1942,travelin
theSouth.Fromlatein 1943 tolatein 1945 LawrenceservedintheUnitedStates
CoastGuard.Inthesummerof 1946 hetaughtatBlackMountainCollege,Black
Mountain,NorthCarolina.
.AwardsincludeRosenwaldfellowshipsin1940,1941,and1942;apurchaseprize
in theArtistsforVictoryshowattheMetropolitanMuseumofArtin 1942;a
CiuggcnheimFellowshipin 1945;Opjtortunitymagazineaward in1948;purchase
prizeat.AtlantaUniversityin1948;theHarrisMedalatthe.ArtInstituteofChicago;
andHonorableMentionatthePennsylvaniaAcademyoftheFine.Arts,alsoin1948.
JacobLawrencehasexecutedseveralseriesoffromfourteentosixtypaintings
concerningthelivesofvariouspeopleandevents.Someofthemare:"....andthe
MigrantsKeptComing,"aseriesofsixtypaintingsrelatingtoNegromigrations
duringandafterWorldWarI,exhibitedin1941;"Harlem"series,thirtypaintings,
shownin1943;CoastGuardseries,onviewattheMuseumofModernArtinNew
\'orkin1944;""LifeofJohnBrown,"twenty-twopaintingsexhibitedin^1945 inNew
Yorkandlaterinotherplaces,includingthe.ArtInstituteofChicago;"War"series
offourteenpaintingsrelatingtoexperiencesinWorldWarII,firstshowninNew
Yorkin1947;HillsideHospitalseries,elevenpaintings,exhibitedin1950.Healso
madetheillustrationsforOneWayTicketbyLangstonHughes,publishedin1948.
CommissionedbyFortunemagazine,hetraveledintheSouthin1947.
TheworkofJacobLawrenceformsapartofthecollectionsoftheMetropolitan
MuseumofArt,MuseumofModern.ArtandtheWhitneyMuseumof.American.Art
inNewYork;PhillipsMemorialGallery,Washington,D.C'..;Portland(Oregon).Art
Museum;MuseumoftheRhodeIslandSchoolofDesigninProvidence;Worcester
(Massachusetts)ArtMuseum;VirginiaMuseumofFineArts;Baltimore(Manland)
Mu.seumofArt;BrooklynMuseum;Wichita(Kansas) ArtMuseum;.AlbrightArt
(iailery,Buffalo,NewYork;AmericanAcademyofArtsandLetters,New^'ork;
.AlabamaPolytechnicInstitute;.AtlantaUniversity;HowardUniversity,Washington,
D.C.; the universitiesof .Arizona,Georgia, andNebraska; InternationalBusiness
MachinesCorporation;ContainerCorporationof.America;theMillerCompany;and
theMuseumofModern.ArtatSfiuPaulo,Brazil.Heli\esinNewYorkCity.
LEE,Doris,Badminton,^35 x42. Illustration—Plate^85
'Ttrytofreemyselfasmuchaspossiblefromthedogmasthathindi-ranin-
tuitiveapproach,"statesDorisLee,whoaddsthattosayalittlemorewouldmean
havingtosayalotmore,so.shehasdecidedagainstfurthercomment.
ShewasborninAlcdo,Illinois,in1905.HavingbeengraduatedfromRockford
College,Rockford,Illinois,in1927,shestudiedinParisandMunichbutwasback
intheUnitedStatesin 1929 studyingbrieflyattheKansasCity.ArtInstituteand
SchoolofDesignwithErnestI,avv.son.In 1930 furtherstudyfollowedinParisand
forashorttimeattheCalifornia.SchoolofFine.Artsin.SanFranciscowith.\rnold
Blanch.Additionalprojectsandtra\clin theL'nitcdStales,I.alin.America,and
F.uropepunctuatehercareer.From193tito 1939 shewassummerguestartistal
