American art. He is an ionic figure, one of the great modern painters of the twentieth century, a distinction he earned early in his career when he gained widespread recognition for the narrative painting series The Migration of the Negro in 1941. In a century that equated the evolution of modern art with the will toward abstraction, Lawrence's early success and his sustained visibility are remarkable. He has walked a careful line between abstract and figurative art, using aesthetic values for social ends. His success at balancing such seemingly irreconcilable aspects of art is a fundamental characteristic of his long and distinguished career. ( Dubois,11)

This Toussaint L'Ouverture series, number seventeen. A description of this composition is Toussaint captured Marmelade, held by Vernet, 1795, 1937-1938. The medium used in this composition was tempera on paper, 19 x 11". The original piece resides in the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University in New Orleans. "It was late in that year," chronicled the New York Amsterdam News about Lawrence in 1937, "that he began the Haitian series, doing his

Locke urged black writers and artists to turn to African and folk traditions, a conception used by some to argue for a kind of cultural nationalism and separatism. Meanwhile, however the Great Depression spurred a turn toward broader political struggles on the part of black intellectuals. Langston Hughes and others began to focus on the struggle against racism as part of a universal struggle for social equality.

Lawrence had a very unique style when he conducted his paintings. His greatest artistic and commercial success came in his genre and history paintings. He painted many different series of work depicting the lives of many different African Americans. Subjects included Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, and Toussaint L'Ouverture. His historical paintings include the Migration Series, Harlem Series, The South Series, and War Series. Lawrence also worked in genre painting, the most successful series of which was the Builders Series. Sheldon's Paper Boats is another example of genre painting. (Sheldon, 1998)

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