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Jacob Lawrence’s Work Theme, 1945–46

    Art, History

  • 2022

York from service in the Coast Guard during World War II, Jacob Lawrence began work on The Shoemaker, a watercolor and gouache painting of a Black craftsperson in his workshop (fig. 1). Surrounded by

Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Black Place”

During World War II, Georgia O’Keeffe created a series of foreboding paintings of New Mexico’s Bisti Badlands, which she named the “Black Place.” Produced within a wartime image ecosystem in which