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Jacob Lawrence in Nigeria 

How an American artist connected with African modernism 

Kristina Kay Robinson
HUMANITIES, Spring 2023, Volume 44, Number 2

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Front Cover -- Jacob Lawrence painting
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Market Scene, 1966, gouache on paper, by Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000), shows the African influence on his work. Read more about the exhibition on Lawrence and the postcolonial Nigerian arts scene in this issue.  

—Chrysler Museum of Art, museum purchase, 2018.22; © 2023 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 

Spring 2023
Volume 44, Issue 2

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