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It seems fitting that the Phillips Collection’s centennial celebration would include a major exhibition of works by painter Jacob Lawrence, whose career was deeply entangled with the Washington, D.C., institution. Collector Duncan Phillips, who founded the museum with his mother, was one of the artist’s early champions who solidified his support by purchasing all odd-numbered panels of Lawrence’s sixty-part epic “The Migration Series” (1940–41) ...

Sir Thomas Lawrence’s famed portrait of Charles William Lambton, widely known as Red Boy, will soon join the collection of the National Gallery in London. The institution has committed to buying the work from a private collection for £9.3 million (around $12.7 million). In a statement, the National Gallery said the purchase is a unique opportunity “to acquire an exceptionally important painting by one ...

Arts and entertainment | Expert quotes | UW News blog March 29, 2021 Jacob Lawrence in his studio in 1979. UW Special Collections Jacob Lawrence was one of the most important American artists of the 20th century. He also taught at the University of Washington from 1971 to 1986. For the first time, a UW course is looking at his legacy on the art ...