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| USA | 98 |
| Germany | 1 |
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DC Moore Gallery, USA |
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Norton Museum of Art, USA |
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Biography: 
7.9.1917 Born in Atlantic City, NJ (US)
His parents were part of the Great Migration of Black Americans (1916-1930). One million people left the rural South for the urban North during this period. He moved with his family to Easton, Pennsylvania. After his parents separated, he moved with his mother to Philadelphia.
In 1927, his mother moved to New York and placed Lawrence and his siblings in foster homes. In 1930, Lawrence, age 13, and his brother and sister moved to Harlem to live with their mother. This period was The Depression, and people had difficulty surviving. Lawrence worked to help support his family.
He began taking art classes with Charles Alston at an after-school arts and crafts program. At the age of 15, he decided to become a painter. Jacob loved color. He used bright, bold color to dramatize the one-dimensional aspect of his work. This flat appearance is Lawrence's signature style. Also, Lawrence frequently liked to tell a story with his paintings. His paintings told the stories of black history or stories of his own life experiences.
Lawrence was able to survive as an artist thanks to the government-sponsored Works Progress Administration, which hired writers, artists and musicians to document American history. This period was known as the Harlem Renaissance because the WPA trained artists, musicians, writers and other creative artists. In 1938, Lawrence received a WPA Federal Writer's Project (later Federal Workers' Project) assignment. In 1940, he received a fellowship from the Rosenwald Fund and he started his Migration Series, 60 panels in all.
In 1941, at the age of 24, he became the first African-American artist to cross over the "color line" and exhibit his work in galleries and museums previously only showing the works of white artists. He started in the Downtown Gallery in New York, which included the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art and the Phillips Collection. From the 1940s to the 1960s, he lived in New York City. In 1963, he began printmaking.
In 1964, Lawrence visited Africa, which inspired his Nigerian Series (1964-1965). In 1971, he moved to Seattle to teach at the University of Washington. Starting in 1993, Lawrence illustrated (or wrote and illustrated) many books for children about African-American history, and created the art for a new edition of Aesop's Fables.
Lawrence died on June 9, 2000 at the age of 82.
(Written by Kristin Myer)
9.6.2000 Died in Seattle, WA (US)
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Public exhibitions 99
from 6.12.
until 14.2.2010
Solo shows 38
2009
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| The Prints of Jacob Lawrence, 1963 – 2000 - Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN |
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| Jacob Lawrence: Urban Storyteller - The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, Saint Joseph, MO |
2008
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| Jacob Lawrence’s Hiroshima - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
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| The Great American Epic: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series - The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| Jacob Lawrence: Moving Forward - DC Moore Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Jacob Lawrence: Three Series of Prints - The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL |
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| Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series: Selections from The Phillips Collection - Mississippi Museum of Art MMA, Jackson, MS |
2007
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| Undoing the Ongoing Bastardization of the Migration of the Negro by Jacob Lawrence - Triple Candie, New York City, NY |
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| Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series - Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA |
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| The Life of Toussaint L’Ouveture - Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT |
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| Jacob Lawrence Prints, 1963-2000: A Comprehensive Survey - Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH |
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| Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series - The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX |
2006
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| Jacob Lawrence - Tales of Freedom - Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA |
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| Jacob Lawrence - Three Series of Prints - Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY |
2005
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| Jacob Lawrence: In Focus - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| Jacob Lawrence - The Three Series of Prints - Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL |
2004
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| Jacob Lawrence's War Series - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Jacob Lawrence: Chronicles of Struggle and Hope - Boston University Art Gallery - BUAG, Boston, MA |
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| Jacob Lawrence - DC Moore Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Jacob Lawrence - Migration Series - Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN |
2003
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| Over the Line, the art and life of Jacob Lawrence - The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI |
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| Three Series of Prints by Jacob Lawrence - Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, OH |
2002
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| Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Jacob Lawrence - Prints from the Series The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture - Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL |
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| Jacob Lawrence - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Jacob Lawrence - DC Moore Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Over the Line - The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Jacob Lawrence - The Legend of John Brown - Queens Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Jacob Lawrence - The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of 1938-40 - Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY |
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| Jacob Lawrence - DC Moore Gallery, New York City, NY |
2000
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| Jacob Lawrence - The Toussaint L'Ouverture Series - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
1998
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| Jacob Lawrence - DC Moore Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Jacob Lawrence: Painting Life - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1996
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| Jacob Lawrence: Thirty Years of Prints (1963-1993) - Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN |
1995
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| Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1990
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| Jacob Lawrence - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ |
1944
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| Paintings by Jacob Lawrence - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
Group shows 59
2009
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| Trees - DC Moore Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| American Concepts and Global Visions/Selections from the AT&T Collection: Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture - The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX |
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| A Force for Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund - Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL |
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| Showcase & Tell: Treasures From the Spelman College Permanent Collection - Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA |
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| African American Currents: Contemporary Art from the Bank of America Collection - 40 Acres Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA |
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| The African-American Experience: Slavery to Civil Rights - Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA |
2008
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| Evening Light - DC Moore Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis - The Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
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| Black Art - Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
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| Highlights: African American Art from the Norton Collection - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
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| In the Hands of African American Collectors: The Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
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| Wedded Bliss, The Marriage of Art and Ceremony - Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA |
2007
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| Conflicting Current: Aspects of American Art 1920-1950 - Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL |
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| Works on Paper - The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH |
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| Tools in Motion - South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, SD |
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| Selections from the Permanent Collection: New Gifts - AMoA - Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX |
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| African-American Art - Selections from the Permanent Collection - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
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| Bearden, Lawrence, Parks: Artists of Influence - Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead, NY |
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| American Modernists - University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY |
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| Tools as Art - The Hechinger Collection - Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY |
2006
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| Body Politics: Figurative Prints and Drawings from Schiele to De Kooning - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| MAM Unwrapped - Missoula Art Museum MAM, Missoula, MT |
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| Art on the Edge - , Omaha, NE |
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| The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture - 60 Years - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
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| Black Mountain College - Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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| African America Art from the Walter O. Evans Collection - The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI |
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| Milton Avery, Jacob Lawrence - DC Moore Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Generations - African-American Art in the VMFA Collection - Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA |
2005
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| Black Is a Color: African American Art from the Corcoran Gallery of Art - Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH |
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| African American Art - Masterworks of Contemporary Art - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Shades of Black[ness] - Davison Art Center, Middletown |
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| The Other Mainstream - Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weith - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ |
2004
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| Common Ground - Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| A Sense of Place - Selections from the Tacoma Art Museum Collection - Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA |
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| African American Masters - Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum - Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH |
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| Everyday Mysteries: Modern and Contemporary Still Life - DC Moore Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| American Expressionism - Art and Social Change, 1920s–1950s - Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL |
2003
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| HairStories - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ |
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| Generations - African-American Art in the VMFA Collection - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA |
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| American Screen Printing from the Jundt Collection - Missoula Art Museum MAM, Missoula, MT |
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| Challenge of the Modern: African American Artists 1925-1945 - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| The Harlem Renaissance and its Legacy - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
2002
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| Routes toward Modernism - American Painting 1870 - 1950 - Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
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| Think Small - Little Treasures from the Permanent Collection - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
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| Celebrating the Legacy III - African-American Art at the Corcoran - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
2001
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| Narratives of African American Art and identity - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA |
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| Print Matters. New Works and Modern Treasures - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA |
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| Rhapsody - Selections from Valley Collections - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ |
2000
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| Pissarro and Other Masters - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
1999
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| Paper Paths - 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection - Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY |
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| Narratives of African-American Art and Identity - The David C. Driskell Collecti - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
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| The American Century - Art & Culture 1900-2000 Part I - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
1998
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| Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection fr. National Museum - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI |
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| In the Eye of the Storm: An Art of Conscience 1930-1970 - Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN |
1997
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| Civil Progress: Life in Black America - Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1993
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| The Art of Microsoft - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1986
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| Northwest Impressions: Works on Paper - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1981
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| America 20er-40er Jahre Amerikanischer Realismus - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
1970
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| Contemporary Black Artists - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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USA
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| | DC Moore Gallery, New York City, NY
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Public collections 36
USA
| | Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
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| | Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX
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| | Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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| | MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | David C. Driskell Center, College Park, MD
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| | Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
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| | The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
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| | Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
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| | Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
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| | Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
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| | Kresge Art Museum, Lansing, MI
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| | University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
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| | Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
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| | Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
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| | MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
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| | Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
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| | Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
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| | Missoula Art Museum MAM, Missoula, MT
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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
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| | Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
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| | The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
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| | Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
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| | North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
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| | Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
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| | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
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| | Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
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| | The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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| | The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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| | The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
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| | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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| | Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
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| | Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
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