My pictures express my life and experience. I paint the things I know about and the things I have experienced.The thingd I have experienced extend into my national,racial,and class group.So I paint the American Scene.

Foreword by Bruce Guenther

Acknowledgments

Jacob Lawrence's Expressive Cubism by Patricia Hills

1. Introduction

2. Origins: 1917 to 1940

3. Early Maturity: 1940 to 1949

4. Mid-Career in New York: 1949 to 1968

5. At Home in the West: 1968 to Present

6. Conclusion

Notes

Chronology

Checklist of the Exhibition

Exhibition History

Work in Public and Corporate Collections

Bibliography

Index

Photo Credits