Lost Painting By Modernist Master Jacob Lawrence Found In Private Collection
A visitor to the Metropolitan Museum Of Art in New York — where Lawrence's series, Struggle, is currently on view — helped identify a missing painting by the Modernist master.
One of America's most renowned Modernist painters, Jacob Lawrence, is best known for his powerfully empathic The Migration Series, which chronicled the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to industrial cities.
But that 60-panel series (which Lawrence startedfifteen years later to showcase, in the words of the artist, "the struggles of a people to create a nation and their attempt to build a democracy."
