Arts Mar 12 Unraveling the mystery of a pioneering American painter’s missing work By Mike Melia, Tommy Walters, Lynsey Jeffery
Arts Mar 04 Watch 5:41 How painter Jacob Lawrence reframed early American history with ‘Struggle’ Amid the McCarthy hearings and the launch of the civil rights movement in the 1950s, painter Jacob Lawrence, the most famous black artist of his era, sought to reframe early American history the way he saw it. His ensuing work,… By Jared Bowen, WGBH
Arts May 04 Watch 6:17 Revisiting the Great Migration through paintings and poetry The Great Migration of 6 million African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North was a shift that reshaped America forever. Artist Jacob Lawrence captured that story in an epic work of art known as the Migration Series. Now… By PBS News Hour
Apr 23 Watch ‘Made in the USA’ connects abstract expressionism to 20th Century American ideas By PBS News Hour