The Complete Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence and Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), a Catalogue Raisonne
This two-volume set, including Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence and Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), A Catalogue Raisonne, is the definitive publication on the work of artist Jacob Lawrence. The result of six years of research by the Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonne Project, led by Peter T. Nesbett and Michelle DuBois, the books identify, authenticate, and document over 900 paintings, drawings, and murals created by Jacob Lawrence between 1935 and 1999-over half of them ...
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This two-volume set, including Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence and Jacob Lawrence: Paintings, Drawings, and Murals (1935-1999), A Catalogue Raisonne, is the definitive publication on the work of artist Jacob Lawrence. The result of six years of research by the Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonne Project, led by Peter T. Nesbett and Michelle DuBois, the books identify, authenticate, and document over 900 paintings, drawings, and murals created by Jacob Lawrence between 1935 and 1999-over half of them discovered by the project. Over the Line includes essays by eight distinguished art historians considering the ways in which Lawrence's art speaks so powerfully to different audiences and examining for the first time the breadth and depth of his output. Intimate in scale and bold in content, Lawrence's candid portrayals of life in Harlem during the Depression and his epic multi-panel series painted in the late 1930s and early 1940s are the cornerstones of his aesthetic production. His paintings, drawings, and murals depict both critical moments in history and poignant struggles of everyday life. The subject matter ranges from unforgiving portrayals of racial injustice to compassionate scenes of family life, from unnerving images of nuclear annihilation to visual celebrations of such heroic individuals as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. His use of the series format and his attention to pressing social issues accord him a unique position in the history of American modernism. Born in 1917, Jacob Lawrence spent his childhood in New York City, attending classes at the Harlem Community Art Center and the American Artists School, and later working for the Federal Art Project. While still in his twenties Lawrence exhibited his paintings at major museums across the country, including the Phillips Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where he became the first African American artist to have work represented in the permanent collection. He lived, painted, and taught in New York City until 1971, when he joined the faculty of the University of Washington. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the National Medal of Arts. The contributors to Over the Line include Lizzetta LaFalle Collins; Patricia Hills, Boston University; Elizabeth Hutton-Turner, the Phillips Collection; Paul Karlstrom, West Coast Archives of American Art; Leslie King-Hammond, Maryland Institute; Richard Powell, Duke University; Lowery Stokes Sims, Studio Museum in Harlem; and Elizabeth Steele, the Phillips Collection.
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Add this copy of The Complete Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line: the Art and to cart. $120.99, very good condition, Sold by MI Re-Tale rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dacula, GA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by University of Washington Press.
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Very Good. Size: 10x2x11; Very nice ex-library set that never circulated. Slipcase is signed by the author. Protective plastic and a sticker attached on each book. Outer page edges have "discard" stamped on outer page edges. No expedited shipping due to size and weight.
Add this copy of The Complete Jacob Lawrence (Complete in Two Volumes to cart. $125.00, like new condition, Sold by Collins Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by U. of Washington.
Add this copy of The Complete Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line: the Art and to cart. $157.50, like new condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by University of Washington Press.
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As New in plastic slipcase. Two volumes in plastic slipcase. Over 900 works documented and illustrated. Contents as follows: [v.1] Over the line: the art and life of Jacob Lawrence--[v.2] Jacob Lawrence: paintings, drawings, and murals (1935-1999): a catalogue raisonné. V.1: Essays by eight distinguished art historians examine the ways in which Jacob Lawrence's art speaks so powerfully to different audiences. An extensive chronology is illustrated with family photos. 261 illustrations.
Add this copy of The Complete Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line: the Art and to cart. $242.00, new condition, Sold by Half Moon Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Kingston, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by University of Washington Press.
Add this copy of The Complete Jacob Lawrence (2 Volumes: Over the Line, to cart. $250.00, very good condition, Sold by Exquisite Corpse Booksellers rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Houston, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by University of Washington Press, Seattle.
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Near Fine in Fine Condition jacket. Book Two hardcover volumes in a frosted plastic slipcase. Volume 1 is 286 pages. Volume 2 is 346 pages. Both volumes are in crisp, tight, bright, clean and essentially new condition. There is a 2 inch horizontal crack in the slipcase at the rear of the box, but otherwise in fine condition. Texts in English, with a profusion of full color illustrations. As the title suggests, this is the definitive compendium on the work of the artist. An overall attractive and handsome presentation that contains some major scholarly research.
