Print masterpieces: Brooks' Jacob Lawrence exhibit stirs the mind and heart

Published July 1, 2009 at 10:43 p.m.
As powerful narrative, the work of Harlem Renaissance artist Jacob Lawrence speaks directly to the African-American experience. As powerful art, it speaks in equally direct tones to the human experience. In one of the most visually exhilarating exhibits to arrive at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in some time, "The Prints of Jacob Lawrence, 1963-2000," chronicles most of the etchings, woodcuts, silk screens and lithographs by this important 20th century artist.


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