Jacob Lawrence
and the Urban Experience
selected prints 1968 - 2000

October 16 - December 24, 2009

220 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
tel 215-898-2083
fax 215-573-2045
arg@pobox.upenn.edu
www.upenn.edu/ARG/
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 10 am to 5 pm; Saturday - Sunday, noon to 5 pm

About the Exhibition
The Arthur Ross Gallery will present a comprehensive survey of Jacob Lawrence prints, 1963-2000. A renowned 20th-century African-American painter/printmaker, Lawrence's self-defined style of "dynamic cubism" was primarily influenced by his life growing up in Harlem. The New York Times (June 9, 2000) called Lawrence "one of America's leading figurative painters" and "among the most impassioned visual chroniclers of the African American experience."

This selection of prints will focus specifically on aspects of urban life. Prints are courtesy of the DC Moore Gallery, New York.

About the Gallery
The Arthur Ross Gallery of the University of Pennsylvania is a relatively recent addition to an institution founded long ago by Benjamin Franklin to supply a need that the Founder himself had overlooked. In Franklin's early schemes for an education that would link the practical with the ornamental, the emphasis, in view of the immediate needs of Colonial America, was all on the practical.