Oral history interview with Jacob Lawrence
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Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000
Greene, Carroll
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1968 October 26
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92 Pages (Transcript)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.lawren68
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Interview of Jacob Lawrence conducted 1968 October 26, by Carroll Greene, for the Archives of American Art.
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Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000
Karlstrom, Paul J.
Knight, Gwendolyn
- Dates:
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1998 November 18
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82 Pages (Transcript)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.lawren98
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
An interview of Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight conducted 1998 November 18, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, in the artists' home in Seatle, Washington.
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Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000
- Dates:
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1937-1992
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4 Microfilm reels
- Collection ID:
- AAA.lawrjaco2
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
This microfilm collection documents the artistic and teaching career of African American painter Jacob Lawrence. Included are biographical materials and awards; correspondence; writings and speeches by Lawrence, 1947-1962, and writings about Lawrence; photographs; scattered financial material, 1941-1957; and printed materials. Correspondence dat...
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Wolford, Richard
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between 1962 and 1964?
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1 Item (sound tape reel (60 min. or less), analog, 3 3/4 ips, 7 in.)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.wolfrich
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
One reel to reel audio recording by Richard Wolford of Jacob Lawrence giving a talk to the Society of Nigerian Artists at USAID in Lagos, Nigeria on one of two trips Lawrence took to Nigeria in the early 1960s.
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Billings, Henry, 1901-
- Dates:
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1955
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0.2 Linear feet ((on 2 partial microfilm reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.billhenr
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence relating to Billings' position as an officer of the National Council for U.S. Art and related photographs, among them one of Roland L. Redmond (President of the Council) with Dag Hammarskjold and Robert Cronbach in front of a sculpture by Cronbach and Jose de Rivera, 1960, and one photo each of works by Jacob Lawrence, Concetta Scara...
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Detroit Institute of Arts
- Dates:
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1969 Mar
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1 Sound tape (7 in.)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.diacross
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Statements from artists participating in the "Crosscurrents U.S.A." exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts, including Romare Bearden, Leland Bell, Benjamin F. Cunningham, Elaine De Kooning, Balcomb Greene, Joseph Hirsch, Lester F. Johnson, Alex Katz, Robert Kaupelis, John Koch, Jacob Lawrence, Alice Neel and John Wilson.
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American Association of University Women
- Dates:
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1935-1955
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4 Linear feet
- Collection ID:
- AAA.amerasso
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Files relating to a series of traveling art exhibitions sponsored by the AAUW, 1949-1952, containing material on artists Walter Anderson, Marsden Hartley, Jacob Lawrence, John Rood, David Smith and others.
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Knight, Gwendolyn
Lawrence, Jacob, 1917-2000
- Dates:
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1816
1914-2008
bulk 1973-2001
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25.35 Linear feet
0.001 Gigabytes
- Collection ID:
- AAA.lawrjaco
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
The papers of African American painter and educator Jacob Lawrence and his wife, artist Gwendolyn Knight measure 25.35 linear feet and 0.001 GB date from 1914 to 2008, with one item from 1816 and the bulk of the material dating from 1973 to 2001. The collection includes biographical material; correspondence including condolence letters to Gwendolyn Knight after Jacob Lawrence's death; writings by Jacob Lawrence and others; printed and digital material; photographs; personal business records; artwork; records from the Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonné Project; materials related to the Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation; professional files; and material related to awards and honors received by Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight.
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Block, Dorothy, 1904-1984
- Dates:
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1920-1985
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0.7 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 1 reel))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.blocdoro
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
REEL 3481: Biographical data; Block's memoirs and writings on the Federal Art Project, William von Schlegell, and women artists; letters from Aristodemos Kaldis, Jacob Lawrence and others; photographs of Block, her family, von Schlegell, Kaldis, Michael Freilich, and others; 15 photographs of her paintings; a scrapbook containing reproductions of f...
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Dintenfass, Terry, 1920-
Cummings, Paul
- Dates:
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1974 December 2-1975 January 13
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75 Pages (Transcript)
- Collection ID:
- AAA.dinten74
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Interview of Terry Dintenfass conducted 1974 December 2-1975 January 13, by Paul Cummings, for the Archives of American Art, in her home in New York, New York.
