Jacob Lawrence

In addition to getting paid he was able to study and work with such notable Harlem Renaissance artists as Charles Alston and Henry Bannarn in the Alston-Bannarn workshop. Before Lawrence died the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation was formally establiJacob Lawrenced. He was awarded the U.

Lawrence is among the best-known 20th-century African-American painters a distinction shared with Romare Bearden. Jacob Lawrence (September 7 1917 – June 9 2000) was an American painter; he was married to a fellow artist Gwendolyn Knight. The collection has been split into two parts for public viewing.