Reference books and catalogues
ALSTON Charles, Jacob Lawrence, New York: James Weldon Johnson Literary Guild, 1938.
BAUR John I. H., (ed.), New Art in America: Fifty Painters of the Twentieth Century, Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1957.
BROWN Milton W., Jacob Lawrence, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974.
DAVIS Lenwood G., and Janet L. Sims, Black Artists in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography of Books, Articles, and Dissertations on Black Artists, 1779—1979, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980.
DOVER Cedric, American Negro Art, Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1960.
DRISKELL David C., Amistad II: Afro-American Art, Nashville: Department of Fine Art, Fisk University, 1975.
DRISKELL David C., Two Centuries of Black American Art, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976.
ELIOT Alexander, Black Artists of the New Generation, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1977.
GAITHER Edmund Barry, Afro-American Artists, New York and Boston, Roxbury, Mass.: Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists with Museum of Fine Arts and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 1970.
GELBURD Gail, A Blossoming of New Promise: Art in the Spirit of the Harlem Renaissance, Hempstead, N.Y.: Hofstra University, 1984.
GIPS Terry (ed.), Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection, College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 1998.
HUGGINS Nathan Irvin, Harlem Renaissance, London, Oxford, and New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.
LEWIS Samella, and Ruth G. Waddy, Black Artists on Art, Los Angeles: Contemporary Crafts Publishers, 1969.
LEWIS Samella, African American Art and Artists, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1990.
LOCKE Alain, The Negro Artist Comes of Age, New York: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1945.
LOCKE Alain, The Negro in Art: A Pictorial Record of the Negro Artist and of the Negro Theme in Art, Washington, D.C.: Associates in Negro Folk Education, 1940, Reprint, New York: Hacker Art Books, 1971.
NESBETT Peter t. and Michelle DuBois, (eds.), Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, Seattle and New York: University of Washington Press and Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, 2000.
PORTER James A., Modern Negro Art, New York: The Dryden Press, 1943. Reprint. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1992.
PORTER James A., The Negro in American Art, Los Angeles: UCLA Art Galleries, Dickson Art Center, 1966.
POWELL Richard J., African American Art, Twentieth Century Masterworks II, New York: Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 1995.
POWELL Richard J., Black Art and Culture in the Twentieth Century, London: Thames and Hudson, 1997.
POWELL Richard J., Jacob Lawrence, New York: Rizzoli Art Series, 1992.
SAARINEN Aline B., Jacob Lawrence, New York: American Federation of Arts, 1960.
The New York Council of the United Negro, The Portrayal of Negroes in American Painting, New York: Forum Gallery, 1967.
The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987.
TURNER Elizabeth Hutton, (ed.), Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series, Exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: Rappahannock Press in association with The Phillips Collection, 1993.
Articles
“And the Migrants Kept Coming”, South Today (Atlanta) 7, 1 (spring 1942), 5-6.
“Art News of America: Picture Story of the Negro’s Migration”, ARTnews (New York) 40, 15 (November 15-30, 1941), 8-9.
“Art: Black Mirror”, Newsweek 61, 15 (April 15, 1963), 100.
“Jacob Lawrence”, Bulletin of The Museum of Modern Art (New York) 12 (November 1944), 11.
“Jacob Lawrence’s Paintings Depict Negro Exodus”, The Economist (London) 330 (January 8, 1994), 82.
BECK James H., “Jacob Lawrence”, ARTnews (New York) 62, 2 (April 1963), 13.
CANADAY John, “The Quiet Anger of Jacob Lawrence”, New York Times, January 6, 1968, 25.
DEVREE Howard, “Forceful Painting”, New York Times, January 6, 1957, sec. 2, 15.
GIBBS Josephine, “Jacob Lawrence’s Migrations”, Art Digest (New York) 19, 3 (November 1, 1944), 7.
GIBSON Eric, “Exhibition Notes: ‘Jacob Lawrence-The Migration Series’ at the Phillips Collection”, The New Criterion (New York) 12, 4 (December 1993), 51.
KAUFMAN Jason Edward, “The Saga of American Blacks According to Jacob Lawrence”, The Art Newspaper (London) 33, 4 (December 1993), 14.
LOCKE Alain, “‘… And The Migrants Kept Coming’: A Negro Artist Paints the Story of the Great American Minority”, Fortune 24 (November 1941), 102-109.
LOCKE Alain, “Advance on the Art Front”, Opportunity (New York) 17, 5 (May 1939), 132-136.
LOERCHER Diana, “Jacob Lawrence-World’s Painter of Black Experience”, Christian Science Monitor (Boston), June 6, 1974, F6.
LOWE Jeannette, “The Negro Sympathetically Rendered by Lawrence, Wechsler”, ARTnews (New York) 37, 21 (February 18, 1939), 15.
SCHWABSKY Barry, “Black Exodus”, Art in America (New York) 84, 3 (March 1996), 88-93.
VAN CLEVE Jane, “The Human Views of Jacob Lawrence”, Stepping Out Northwest 12 (winter 1982), 33-37.
WATKINS Richard, “Jacob Lawrence: The Famous Artist Who Chronicles Major Black Events in American History Says He Is Motivated and Inspired by the Black Experience”, Black Enterprise (New York) 6, 5 (December 1975), 66-68.
WERNICK Robert, “Jacob Lawrence: Art As Seen through a People’s History”, Smithsonian (Washington, D.C.) 18, 3 (June 1987), 56-67.
ZIMMER William, “A Painterly Storyteller Takes Black America as His Subject”, New York Times, April 5, 1992, WC20.