Walter Dean Myers, Author, Jacob Lawrence, Author, Jacob Lawrence, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $16 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-80126-6
As in her Life Around the Lake (coauthored with Gloria Soto), Presilla again examines a little-known culture by means of its textile arts. This time her subject is the Cuna Indians, who inhabit the San Blas Islands off the coast of Panama, and the...
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John Duggleby, Author, Jacob Lawrence, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $16.99 (64p) ISBN 978-0-8118-2082-0
Duggleby (Artist in Overalls: The Life of Grant Wood) once again enlarges upon themes in an American artist's life and work to create a gratifying portrait of a particular time and place. Lawrence's expressionistic, stark paintings, in excellent...
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Jacob Lawrence, Author Museum of Modern Art $23.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-023037-1
Lawrence's (Harriet and the Promised Land ) starkly poetic art once again works admirably on many levels. A series of paintings tells of the northward flow of African Americans in the years after WW I. Somber pieces, illuminated here and there with...
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Jacob Lawrence, Author, Jacob Lawrence, Illustrator Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing $18.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-671-86673-0
This powerful tribute to the courage of Harriet Tubman provides an ideal introduction to the work of African American artist Lawrence. Tubman's life is dramatically portrayed in stunning artwork, bold with bright blocks of color and informed by a...
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Jacob Lawrence, Author, Jacob Lawrence, Illustrator Aladdin Paperbacks $7.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-689-80965-1
In a starred review of this tribute to Harriet Tubman, PW praised Lawrence's ""stunning"" paintings and noted, ""This moving and beautiful book will stimulate interest in the artist as well as his subject."" All ages. (Jan.)
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Gwen Everett, Author, Jacob Lawrence, Author, Jacob Lawrence, Illustrator Rizzoli International Publications $15.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8478-1702-3
As she did in her accomplished first book, L'il Sis and Uncle Willie , Everett has taken existing artwork--in this case by African American artist Jacob Lawrence--and written a historical text around it. Here, John Brown's fight against slavery is...
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