Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence

Nesbett, Peter T. and Michelle DuBois (editors)

ISBN 10: 0295979658 / ISBN 13: 9780295979656

Published by University of Washington Press / the Phillips Collection, Seattle, Wash, 2001

About this Item

Red & white & color illus. wraps, French flaps, 336 pp. Numerous color plates. Issued in conjunction with a series of 2001-2003 exhibitions featuring the work of American artist Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000). "Includes essays by eight distinguished art historians, who consider the ways in which Jacob Lawrence's art speaks so powerfully to different audiences and examine the breadth and depth of his output." (flap).

Seller Inventory # 21901

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence
• Publisher: University of Washington Press / the Phillips Collection, Seattle, Wash
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0295979658
• ISBN 13: 9780295979656
• Binding: Softcover
• Illustrator: Jacob Lawrence
• Condition: VG
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Artists

About this title

Synopsis

Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence includes essays by eight distinguished art historians examining the ways in which Jacob Lawrence’s art speaks so powerfully to different audiences. It is the first multi-author, in-depth probe of the artist’s entire career: the nature of his work, his education, the critical climate in which he worked, and his use of materials and techniques. It reproduces, in full color, more than 200 works, most of which have not been published in color, or at all, in other books on the artist.

An extensive chronology, collating events in his life with his public reception -- including selected exhibitions, publications, honors, and awards -- is illustrated with family photographs. Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) 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 represented in the permanent collection. He lived, painted, and taught in New York City until 1971, when he moved to Seattle to join the faculty of the University of Washington. He was the recipient of numerous awards including the National Medal of Arts.

The paperback edition of Over the Line is published in conjunction with a major exhibition opening at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, on May 26, 2001, and traveling to the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

About the Author

Peter T. Nesbett was the director and Michelle DuBois the associate director of the Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonn Project. Contributors include Patricia Hills, Paul J. Karlstrom, Leslie King-Hammond, Lizzetta LaFalle-Collins, Richard J. Powell, Lowery Stokes Sims, Elizabeth Steele, and Elizabeth Hutton Turner.