Note on Art

Note on Art

A note from LeRoy Neiman on artistic reference, specifically African American painter Jacob Lawerence.

This sprawling note from LeRoy Neiman on African American artist Jacob Lawrence provides discrete phrases linking the artists’ work. Lawrence (b. 1917) was focused on conveying the experience of black America through petite narrative paintings, often completed in series, pairing brown and black figures with brilliant geometries, which he saw as abstracted from Harlem's scenery and architecture. And although the artists’ works are stylistically distinct, Neiman saw an overlap between their interests, regarding a special attention to blue collar laborers, branding Lawrence's work with his recurrent phrase, “the dignity of the working class.”

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Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence (depicted with sensitivity) The dignity of the working man
[…]
carpenters
Builders – This is Harlem
Plight of the oppressed (let no agree It must be mentioned here)
O.K.
skip about stray
Black
ARTIST -

Pencil, pen, and marker on paper.