"This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954–56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the h ..."
"This publication sets the precedent for the next generation of Lawrence scholars and studies in modern and contemporary discourse. The American Struggle explores Jacob Lawrence's radical way of transforming history into art by looking at his thirty panel series of paintings, Struggle . . . from the History of the American People (1954–56). Essays by Steven Locke, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Austen Barron Bailly, and Lydia Gordon mark the h ..."
"For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design is the first exhibition to highlight a pivotal aspect of the collection of the National Academy of Design-the joint presentation of an artist's portrait with his or her masterwork."
Painting Harlem Modern(1st Edition) The Art of Jacob Lawrence by PatriciaHills Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-30550-2, ISBN: 0-520-30550-7
"Jacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists of the twentieth century. In Painting Harlem Modern, Patricia Hills renders a vivid assessment of Lawrence's long and productive career. She argues that his complex, cubist-based paintings developed out of a vital connection with a modern Harlem that was filled with artists, writers, musicians, and social activists. She also uniquely positions Lawrence alongside such impo ..."
"The works of six women artists are highlighted: Alice Austin (1862-1933), Edith Brown (1872-1932), Sara Galner (1894-1982), Edith Guerrier (1870-1958), Mary H. Northend (1850-1926) and Ethel Reed (1874-1912)."
"Written to accompany an upcoming exhibition, "To Capture the Sun: Gold of Ancient Panama" explores the Gilcrease Museum's collection of Pre-Columbian gold for the first time since its acquisition in the 1940s. The collection, from the Gran CoclE culture of Panama, consists of more than 250 gold objects from early Panama, including effigy pendants, pectorals, cuffs, bands, ear rods, and bells, as well as a ceramics collection.More than a ..."
Painting Harlem Modern(1st Edition) The Art of Jacob Lawrence by PatriciaHills Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2010 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-25241-7, ISBN: 0-520-25241-1
"Jacob Lawrence was one of the best-known African American artists of the twentieth century. In "Painting Harlem Modern", Patricia Hills renders a vivid assessment of Lawrence's long and productive career. She argues that his complex, cubist-based paintings developed out of a vital connection with a modern Harlem that was filled with artists, writers, musicians, and social activists. She also uniquely positions Lawrence alongside such im ..."
"One of the most prominent American painters of the twentieth century, Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) worked in a highly personal manner, creating Modernist views of everyday life as well as epic narratives of American history and historical figures. His work is direct and forceful, in keeping with his lifelong conviction that art could effect social change. At the same time, it is essentially humanistic, exploring the many challenges of Afr ..."
Dread Scott Welcome to America : MoCADA (Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art), February 28, 2008-June 1, 2008 by Dread Scott, PatriciaHills Published 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-9816685-0-5, ISBN: 0-9816685-0-X
"May Stevens' paintings weave themes of familial love and loss, societal ills, and the healing power of nature and the human community. This book surveys the full range of her remarkable lifework, from her early social protest paintings to her recent series of luminous, large-format images of lakes, rivers, and other bodies of water. May Stevens offers an insightful, in-depth look at Stevens' career, drawing on her own recollections and ..."
Jacob Lawrence(2nd Edition) The Complete Prints (1963-2000), A Catalogue Raisonne by Peter T. Nesbett, PatriciaHills, Jacob Lawrence Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2005 by Francine Seders Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-295-98559-6, ISBN: 0-295-98559-3
"Beginning with his first published print in 1963, Jacob Lawrence produced a body of prints that is both highly dramatic and intensely personal. This new edition of Jacob Lawrence: Thirty Years of Prints (1963-1993) includes 19 new prints produced by Lawrence since 1993, including 7 from the Toussaint LÕOuverture series. The book includes an essay by Patricial Hills. In his graphic work, as in his paintings, Lawrence turned to the less ..."
Syncopated Rhythms 20th-Century African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection by PatriciaHills, Melissa Renn, Ed Bradley Paperback, 103 Pages, Published 2005 by Boston Univ Art Gallery ISBN-13: 978-1-881450-23-8, ISBN: 1-881450-23-6
"In this catalogue, published to accompany the exhibition at Boston University Art Gallery from November 2005 to January 2006, Hills (art history, Boston U.) and Renn (American art, Boston U.) present the art collection of George Wein, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, and his wife Joyce. The collection consists of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and a quilt-- done from the 1920s to the 1990s by African American artists, wit ..."
""Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence" includes essays by eight distinguished art historians examining the ways in which Jacob Lawrence's art speaks so powerfully to different audiences. It is the first multi-author, in-depth probe of the artist's entire career: the nature of his work, his education, the critical climate in which he worked, and his use of materials and techniques. It reproduces, in full colour, more than 20 ..."
Jacob Lawrence(2nd Edition) The Complete Prints (1963-2000), A Catalogue Raisonne by Peter T. Nesbett, PatriciaHills, Jacob Lawrence Hardcover, 87 Pages, Published 2001 by Francine Seders Gallery, University Of Washington Press ISBN-13: 978-0-295-97955-7, ISBN: 0-295-97955-0
"Beginning with his first published print in 1963, Jacob Lawrence produced a body of prints that is both highly dramatic and intensely personal. This new edition of Jacob Lawrence: Thirty Years of Prints (1963-1993) includes 19 new prints produced by Lawrence since 1993, including 7 from the Toussaint L'Ouverture series. The book includes an essay by Patricial Hills. In his graphic work, as in his paintings, Lawrence turned to the les ..."
Modern Art in the USA(1st Edition) Issues and Controversies of the 20th Century by PatriciaHills Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2000 by Prentice Hall ISBN-13: 978-0-13-036138-7, ISBN: 0-13-036138-0
" This chronologically organized and comprehensive anthology of readings tells the whole story of art in America from 1900 to the present. It focuses on the themes, issues, and controversies that occurred throughout the century—using selections that are contemporary with the art—by artists, critics, exhibition organizers, poets, politicians, and other writers on culture. Some recurring themes and issues include issues of identity; th ..."