When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

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.